HMS Severn sailed back to Portsmouth this morning after seeing off French fishermen off the coast of Jersey together with HMS Tamar following a row over post-Brexit fishing rules. The Royal Navy River-class offshore patrol vessel was welcomed home today after it was scrambled amid an escalating standoff with French skippers who have threatened to … Read more
HMS Severn sailed back to Portsmouth this morning after seeing off French fishermen off the coast of Jersey together with HMS Tamar following a row over post-Brexit fishing rules. The Royal Navy River-class offshore patrol vessel was welcomed home today after it was scrambled amid an escalating standoff with French skippers who have threatened to … Read more
Sophie, Countess of Wessex joined her husband Prince Edward and her children Lady Louise Windsor and James, Viscount Severn, as they bowed their heads in a sombre tribute to Prince Philip. The wife of Prince Edward wore an ankle-length black dress coat and sling-back heels to enter the chapel, the demure look was finished with a black … Read more
Lady Louise Windsor, 17, is a ‘real asset’ to the family, royal expert says – as it’s revealed she and James, Viscount Severn, 13, will accompany their mother Sophie Wessex to Prince Philip’s funeral Lady Louise Windsor, 17, and her brother James, 13, will be at the funeral The teenagers will accompany their mother to … Read more
Lady Louise Windsor, 17, is a ‘real asset’ to the family, royal expert says – as it’s revealed she and James, Viscount Severn, 13, will accompany their mother Sophie Wessex to Prince Philip’s funeral Lady Louise Windsor, 17, and her brother James, 13, will be at the funeral The teenagers will accompany their mother to … Read more
Wild boar currently living in the Forest of Dean could spread around the UK if they wanted to, according to a leading expert. Dr John Dutton, an ecologist at the University of Worcester, told BBC Radio Gloucestershire the biggest boar population in the UK is in the Forest of Dean. He added that it is … Read more
A woman’s body has been pulled from the River Severn after a 24-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder, police revealed today. Search crews discovered the body of a woman ‘in her 20s’ in Worcester as forensic officers searched a house nearby. Officers investigated a trail of what appears to be bloody splattered along … Read more
A 24-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder as police investigate a trail of blood found along a road. Three sites in Worcester have been cordoned off as search teams comb the River Severn for a woman’s body. A house is being searched by police and forensic experts found what appear to be … Read more
The NHS was founded in 1948 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee’s Labour Government as part of a huge overhaul of public services in the UK. It was formed out of a long-held belief in Britain that healthcare should be free at the point of delivery regardless of wealth or status, with the atrocities suffered in … Read more
The Severn Bridge was closed and hundreds of homes were hit by power cuts this morning as Storm Aiden barrelled into the UK with gusts of up to 75mph and torrential downpours. The Met Office has predicted strong winds and heavy rain will hit the entire nation as the first named storm of the winter … Read more