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An 87-year-old who has led a team of volunteers in a country park for 34 years has said he is "absolutely baffled" to receive a British Empire Medal in the King's Birthday Honours list. Don Bannister said he started working in Severn Valley Country Park in Shropshire in 1991 because he was looking for something to do after taking voluntary redundancy. He is one of six people from the county […]
Thousands of visitors are expected to attend the Three Counties Show in Malvern over the weekend. The event, from 13 to 15 June, will showcase some of the best in British farming, food and the countryside. Organiser Alice Arnold said the site was looking "amazing" and she was excited by what was on offer over the weekend. "There's over 1,500 competitions taking place across the show from flowers to forestry," […]
Iran has launched retaliatory missile and drone strikes on Israel, killing at least three people and wounding dozens, after a series of Israeli attacks on the heart of Tehran’s nuclear programme and armed forces. Israel’s assault used planes as well as drones smuggled into the country in advance, according to officials, to assault key facilities and kill senior generals and scientists. Iran’s UN ambassador said 78 people had been killed […]
Vishwash Kumar Ramesh told DD News “I still can’t believe how I survived” as he spoke from his hospital bed on Friday. The 40-year-old told the broadcaster the plane felt like it was “stuck in the air” shortly after take-off before lights began flickering green and white – adding: “It suddenly slammed into a building and exploded.” The Boeing 787 Dreamliner struck a medical college as it crashed in a […]
Bosses at a heritage railway line say "significant progress" has been made in repairing an embankment that collapsed almost five months ago. The land between Bridgnorth and Hampton Loade, on the Severn Valley Railway, gave way at the Mor Brook bridge on 30 January. Since then, trains have been restricted to running between Kidderminster and Hampton Loade. The heritage line said more than 2,500 tonnes of material had been excavated […]
A total of 53 British nationals were on board a Gatwick airport-bound plane that appeared to explode when it crashed shortly after take-off, Air India has said. The airline’s chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran described the incident as a “tragic accident” and a “devastating event” and said emergency response teams were at the site. A video of the crash, obtained by local media, showed the aircraft fly over a residential area before […]
Nine people have been killed in a shooting at a school in the Austrian city of Graz, with the suspected perpetrator also dead, authorities said. Police said they believe the assailant acted alone, adding that 10 people were dead in total, including the shooter, while “several” others were seriously injured. Graz mayor Elke Kahr described the events as a “terrible tragedy”, the Austria Press Agency reported. It added that the […]
A charity has launched a £5m appeal to create a new cancer treatment centre. Lingen Davies Cancer Support said the facility in Telford would "double the capacity of chemotherapy provision" in the area. It said it would offer up to 30 chemotherapy bays, outpatient clinics, a specialist urology investigations unit, and a lung diagnostic centre. The charity said the Sunflower Appeal was its biggest appeal to date. The cancer services […]
Thousands of military aviation enthusiasts gathered on Sunday for the RAF Cosford Air Show - the only one of its kind organised by the Air Force. As well as The Red Arrows, display teams from Ireland, Poland, and the Netherlands took to the skies above the Shropshire base. Sqn Ldr Dave Kerrison, one of the organisers, said there had been lots to enjoy. The event was first held in 1978, […]
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