A master thatcher said it was important to "safeguard" the industry or otherwise villages risked "losing character". Poor harvests of long straw over the last two years, aging machinery and shortages of trainees …
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A 76-year-old man died after an elderly neighbour hit him over the head "again and again" with a hammer then stabbed him with a large kitchen knife, a trial has been told. Peter …
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A council has been fined £6m after three deaths on the world's longest guided busway. Jennifer Taylor, Steve Moir and Kathleen Pitts died after collisions on the Cambridgeshire busway between 2015 and 2021. …
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Not long after greeting crowds from the balcony overlooking St Peter's Square on Thursday evening, Pope Leo XIV returned to the Sant'Uffizio Palace, where he had been living for the last two months. …
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Two men sit at a bar, drinking Guinness and putting the world to rights. The setting, though, is not a Dublin pub – but Coventry's Belgrade Theatre, where Roddy Doyle's play Two Pints …
Plans to build 430 homes on the edge of a Kent village could be approved next week. Property firm Danescroft said it wanted to build a new estate including houses, football pitches and …
Doctor Who boss Russell T Davies has hit back at criticisms that the show is too "woke", saying he has no time for complaints from "online warriors". The long-running BBC sci-fi show returned …