A brown bear in Kent receiving life-saving brain surgery and the “Hardest Geezer” running the entire length of Africa were among the most eye-catching uplifting moments of 2024. Here, the PA news ...

BEACH huts are expected to be removed from the seafront and will not return to make way for a near-£10million levelling up project. The 29 huts immediately adjacent to Harry Ramsden’s will be removed ...

SEVERAL high-profile businesses closed during 2024 in what was arguably another tough year. The former Thistle Hotel, along the quay front, unexpectedly closed in March after much speculation about ...

Thousands of motorists have been caught drug-driving at least four times, sparking calls for ministers to consider introducing rehabilitation courses for offenders. A total of 33,020 British drivers ...

A union leader has called for 2025 to be a “year of delivery” for workers after 14 years of “Tory chaos”. TUC general secretary Paul Nowak said in his new year message that working people desperately ...

Reform UK’s Nigel Farage says he will spend the next couple of days weighing up possible action against Kemi Badenoch.

A decades-long dispute over the ownership of the cannons included many twists, including concerns that they could be targetted by the ...

A 49-year-old man is to appear in court charged with two counts of murder after two women died following a suspected stabbing in Milton Keynes on Christmas Day. Jazwell Brown, of Santa Cruz Avenue, ...

Colin Ashdown Ellis was out walking his dog in Station Road, West Moors, at around 7.40am on December 13. However, when he was close to the junction with Glenwood Road, the 84-year-old was involved in ...

AFTER Saturday’s disappointing defeat to Winchester, a dogged and determined Wimborne left Sholing with their second away win of the season, thanks to Billy Walker’s first half goal, giving manager ...

ANDONI Iraola opted to start Enes Unal over Evanilson against Crystal Palace for tactical reasons and to give the Brazilian a rest in the busy festive period. Unal started up front against Palace on ...

Tony Blair once suggested that nationalists in Northern Ireland could support England in the World Cup after Ireland was knocked out, according to reports on a 2002 meeting.