Cornwall celebrity Dawn French is set to feature on a brand new stamp collection from Royal Mail celebrating the BBC sitcom The Vicar of Dibley. The beloved series starred the comedian, who has lived in our county for two decades, and ran on the BBC from November 1994 to January …

A fire in a restaurant in the Czech Republic has killed six people and left six others with serious injuries. Firefighters said the U Kojota restaurant in the city of Most, about 63 miles north of Prague, was still open when the fire started before midnight on Saturday. Police and …

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 …