Jones Homes has agreed to move a memorial pit wheel back to face visitors entering the village after it was moved during the construction of 94 houses off Wood Lane. A petition signed by 460 residents called for the wheel to be ‘repositioned in its correct location’, and Treeton Parish Council added that ‘the wheel was a gift and an important memorial to mine workers’. The wheel was moved toward the entrance to the estate, from its original position facing traffic coming into the village, in a...
Roughly a year's worth of rain pummeled the Gulf country in a span of just 12 hours between April 16 and 17, destroying businesses, cars and other property.
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WASHINGTON — A lot of the series was ugly — really, it was — and it is a compliment of the highest order to the Rangers that they were able to grind it through, one period after another, one game after another, to complete a first-round sweep of the Caps while penned into tight spaces
For the last five months, it seemed very possible that a 46-year-old conversation had finally reached its end. Since its launch from Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 5, 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has diligently sent regular updates to Earth on the health of its systems and data collected from its onboard instruments. But in November, the craft went quiet. Voyager 1 is now some 15 billion miles away from Earth. Somewhere in the cold interstellar space between our sun and the closest stars,...
Alsu Kurmasheva, an American reporter for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, has been held in Russia for six months for her journalism. Why hasn’t the U.S. Department of State designated her as wrongfully detained? Deník N/Ludvík Hradilek, courtesy of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Six months ago today, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist and American citizen Alsu Kurmasheva was detained in Russia. Like Wall Street Journal reporter...
The Owls battered promotion-chasing West Brom to earn their second win on the spin and stretch their end-of-season unbeaten run to five. They leapfrogged Plymouth Argyle into 20th place and with results elsewhere in the survival scrap going their way, it means a draw at Sunderland next weekend will secure second tier status from the depths of a 12-point deficit in November. Goals from Anthony Musaba, Ike Ugbo and Josh Windass did the business on an afternoon that they shut the Baggies down...
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese spacecraft has returned to Earth with three astronauts who lived for six months on the country’s space station. The craft and three astronauts landed in the Gobi Desert on Tuesday evening. The spacecraft carrying a replacement crew had arrived at the orbiting space station about four days earlier. China plans
Georgina Joaquim, 17 (pictured), has been learning to drive since March but has only been able to book a test for July at a centre 30 miles away.
Having escaped from jail, "the most courteous thief in the nation" lived in a shuttered Circuit City and survived on supplies stolen from a neighboring Toys R Us. It sounds like Jeffrey Manchester's religion eventually led to his capture, and had the escape artist stayed more low-key, he might have stayed on the run for years. — Read the rest
Egypt, Qatar and the US have been trying to mediate an agreement between Israel and Hamas for months.