A man has been arrested after the attempted abduction of a three-year-old girl in Wolverhampton. The 37-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of attempted kidnap on Saturday after the incident which happened in Leicester Street at about 5.15pm on Thursday, West Midlands Police said. The girl was not injured during …

Royal Mail is gearing up for a significant overhaul of its postal services in multiple locations across the UK, including major cities. Under the new scheme, second class deliveries on Saturdays will be discontinued in several areas such as Bristol, Cardiff, Coventry, Darlington, Hull, London, Nottingham, Salisbury, and Winchester. Furthermore, …

It might be just nine miles from the bright lights of the big city of Manchester, but this Peak District town could be on another planet looking at the traditional stone buildings and snow-covered streets.  Chapel-en-le-Frith is among the towns that form High Peak Borough Council, which is currently part …

Sandringham House is famous for being the countryside retreat where the Royal Family has been hosting their annual Christmas family gathering for decades. But five years ago today, on January 13, 2020, it was at the centre of the biggest news story in the country for an entirely different reason. The Firm …

Stephen Port raped and murdered victims in his East London apartment (Image: PA) Stephen Port, a notorious serial killer with a peculiar interest in children’s films like Transformers, wrote letters from prison boasting about his alleged intelligence. Unbeknownst to him, he was not writing to an adoring fan but to …

A forgotten army of an all-black and all-female battalion of the US Women’s Army Corp helped the war effort from Birmingham. The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion were based at King Edward’s School in Edgbaston and were tasked with the impossible mission of dealing with a backlog of 17 million …

It was a major incident that galvanised almost every appliance and crew of Humberside Fire and Rescue Service into action. A blaze, later found to have been caused by an electrical fault, gutted Hull’s Royal Station Hotel on the night of October 7, 1990. It took 11 hours to bring …

A campaign to boycott Holocaust Memorial Day has sparked fury from those preparing to mark the landmark anniversary. It is understood the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) which has links to Iran has written to 460 councils and universities demanding them to snub official commemorations set to be held a …

The series, which ran on the BBC from November 1994 to January 2007, was set in the fictional Oxfordshire village of Dibley. Following the 1993 changes in the Church of England to permit the ordination of women, the series portrayed a female vicar who had been assigned to the church …

The orchestra will be returning to Barrow Library on Friday, January 31 and Saturday, February 1 for a dementia-friendly concert – ‘By the Fireside’ – and an under-five’s performance, dubbed ‘The Musical Professor’. Read more: Liverpool Philharmonic uncovers historic link to Barrow | The Mail The former has been designed to be …