By Amanda Wilkins – 29 April 2024 CommunityPolitics With three days to go until the local elections, Swindon Borough Council have issued some key reminders. The borough and Police and Crime Commissioner elections take place on Thursday 2 May. Swindon Borogh Council advises: Remember to bring photo ID: It’s crucial to have valid photo …
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Humberside Police officers are appealing for information after a man died following a road traffic collision in Bridlington on Sunday 21st April. Officers received reports at around 2:45pm that a white Citroen DS4 and a black Volkswagen transporter had been involved in a collision on Sewerby Road. A 70-year-old man …
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Put up a plaque to explain sculpture The sculptor Michael Fairfax was employed at great expense by the developers of Newbury’s Market Street to erect the Two Rivers bronze sculpture on the side of the car park of the new development. The Michael Fairfax Two Rivers bronze sculpture This represents …
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Advice and wealth management trade body Pimfa has accused the FCA of ‘naivety’ in its attempts to name firms facing investigations. Pimfa is one of many trade bodies, including the Investment Association and UK Finance, to sign a letter sent to the chancellor arguing against the plans put forward in …
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A woman who died after being pulled from the River Derwent has been named as Lisa Welford and a man has been charged with her murder. North Yorkshire Police alongside members of the public found Lisa in the river at 11.40pm on Wednesday, April 24. She was pulled from the …
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The Government has sold half of its remaining 30% stake in Royal Mail. Around 150 million shares – 15% of the privatised company – have been sold to institutional investors at 500p per share. The sale has raised £750m. The Government is also to give up a further 1% of …
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Decisive action: the Battle of Camperdown in October 1797 was regarded as the Royal Navy’s greatest triumph, until Trafalgar SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Researching the history of Croydon’s part in the wars fought across Europe and North America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries has taken DAVID MORGAN, right, in …
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A guest on the popular show Antiques Roadshow brought with her an amethyst necklace, a family heirloom, that supposedly belonged to a British socialite and the mistress of King Edward VII. If the guest was looking for a nice pay day, her hopes were quickly dashed when jewelry expert Sarah …
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Under the SFI, farmers can receive money for turning their arable and horticultural fields into bee friendly wildflower meadows, grassland or planting species that can feed winter birds. The scheme has proved so popular to struggling farmers that last month the government was forced to issue a crackdown, warning that …
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The Sunday Times’s Lucy Tobin told her readers to book their profits in Centrica and ‘sell’. Yes, the energy outfit had benefitted tremendously from the disruptions brought on by the war in Ukraine. Indeed, it had shifted from net debt of £3bn in 2021 to £2.7bn of net cash. But …
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