Another tale from the BBC's Secret Shropshire series. This time it's the ghost of Copper Hole: Richard Tisdale unravels the mystery of the Church Stretton ghost story that made global headlines.In1874 the glowing white spectre of a woman who'd vanished off the face of the earth caused mass hysteria in the south Shropshire town. It's a ghost story that has reverberated through the centuries and one that will never be laid to rest.
For the second day in a row, our Headline of the Day Award a) goes to the BBC News Suffolk pages and b) is about a bird. The judges advise the birds to other counties to look to their laurels.
Trump's War against Iran has upended the world economy. And it has only just begun. As one economist said: "At the moment things are bad. They are going to get worse and they could become catastrophic." At the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) spring meeting of world finance ministers the IMF revised down world economic growth for 2026 from 3.3 percent to 3.1 percent. It then went on to warn that if the Iran War continued much longer there was a real risk of a global recession. Of the world's advanced economies, the UK is the hardest hit according to both ...
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Scottish Liberal Democrats launch manifesto focused on health, cost of living, transport and educati...
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has launched his party's manifesto focused on the issues that matter most to people right now, and made a plea to voters to back his party on the peach regional ballot to deliver change with fairness at its heart. The manifesto can be found here. Speaking at the Edinburgh Food & Drink Academy where he baked peach tarts for journalists, Mr Cole-Hamilton set out the party's ten target constituency seats which would enable it to block the SNP from winning a parliamentary majority as well as the party's four key priorities for the election: ...
Swansea Minster, formerly St Mary's Church, is an Anglican church in the centre of Swansea, Wales. It is considered the civic church of Swansea, having been designated as Wales' first minster church by the Church in Wales in 2024. As Wikipedia says, there has been a church on the site of St Mary's since circa 1328, which was erected by Henry de Gower, Bishop of Saint David's. It has rebuilt many times: One Sunday morning, in 1739, the roof of the nave collapsed into the church while the congregation was waiting to enter the building. The whole structure was re-built ...