A Herefordshire school is closed today due to a sickness bug that has affected a number of staff and children. In an update on the Herefordshire Council school closures portal, Michaelchurch Escley Primary School said: “Unfortunately the school is closed today...
A man has been arrested following a suspected kidnapping in Worcester this evening (Tuesday 30 September). At around 7.18pm officers were called to Hazel Close following reports that a man appeared to have been forced into a white van. Officers attended the scene, and...
A man from the Forest of Dean has been jailed after attacking another man with a knife in a Gloucester flat on Christmas Eve last year (2024). Daniel Mann, aged 22, and of Leominster Road, Dymock, was sentenced when he appeared at Gloucester Crown Court yesterday...
A couple who were arrested following a police search across the UK have been sentenced for killing their newborn baby. Mark Gordon, 51 (08.06.74) and Constance Marten, 38 (16.05.87), both of no fixed address, lived outside in a tent in freezing conditions with...
The cowardly killer who beat a great-grandfather as he burgled his Wolverhampton home, resulting in the 94-year-old’s death, has today been jailed for life for his murder. Paul Topham, aged 45, was today told at Wolverhampton Crown Court that he would serve a...
