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Missing Katrice Lee’s dad heads to No 10 to hand back medals
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Missing Katrice Lee’s dad heads to No 10 to hand back medals

[ad_1] 18 minutes ago Stuart Whincup,Pamela Tickell BBC Richard Lee is handing back his army medals to protest the handling of the case of his missing daughter The father of a girl who went missing 33 years ago is to hand back his army medals in protest over the handling of the case by the...

Energy HQ will bring huge number of Scottish jobs
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Energy HQ will bring huge number of Scottish jobs

[ad_1] Labour will bring a “huge number” of skilled jobs to Scotland by basing the HQ of its new energy company there, Sir Keir Starmer says. The party plans to create a publicly-owned company called Great British Energy. On an election campaign visit, the Labour leader said the firm would drive the transition to clean...

Mum seeks answers as daughter’s body kept in morgue
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Mum seeks answers as daughter’s body kept in morgue

[ad_1] “My daughter’s been lying in the morgue for three weeks and [they are] not giving me any answers,” said Ms Hodgetts. “I was just distraught today because every day now it’s getting more and more unbearable. “I just imagine her lying there.” Somerset Council said: “We extend our sincere condolences and sympathies to the...

Derby man to travel around England and Wales by bus
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Derby man to travel around England and Wales by bus

[ad_1] 3 hours ago Heidi Booth,BBC News, Derby BBC Andrew Cowell’s latest trip will involve 84 buses and a ferry A man who used the government’s £2 bus fare scheme to travel hundreds of miles across the country is preparing for a new challenge. Andrew Cowell, 47, has previously travelled by buses alone to Whitby,...

Bedfordshire Police seek woman missing for 53 years
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Bedfordshire Police seek woman missing for 53 years

[ad_1] 29 minutes ago Danny Fullbrook,BBC News, Bedfordshire Bedfordshire Police Police have created an image showing what Tina Whittamore, pictured left aged 15, could look like today Police have launched an appeal to find a teenager who went missing exactly 53 years ago. Bedfordshire Police said there had been no confirmed sightings of Tina Whittamore,...

Callum Beattie on the traumas of making it in the music industry
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Callum Beattie on the traumas of making it in the music industry

[ad_1] 43 minutes ago Steven McKenzie,BBC Scotland Highlands and Islands reporter Gavin Watson Beattie plans to start recording a new album later this year Scottish singer Callum Beattie says he is finally reaping rewards after 17 years of trying to carve out a career in the music industry. In the early days, he would play...

Police blamed after human error led to M9 tragedy
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Police blamed after human error led to M9 tragedy

[ad_1] BBC Lamara Bell and her partner John Yuill were found inside their car after it crashed down an embankment off the M9 An “organisational failure” in police call-handling systems which did not detect a human error by a call-handler left a woman with devastating injuries for three days in a car by the side...

Celebrations for Devon woman’s 110th birthday
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Celebrations for Devon woman’s 110th birthday

[ad_1] 5 hours ago Zhara Simpson,BBC News, Plymouth Ross Symons Theresa Ryan is celebrating her 110th birthday on Sunday The family of a woman living in Devon who will turn 110 on Sunday have said the secret to her long life is being kind to others. Theresa Ryan, born on 2 June 1914, shortly before...

‘D Day Dodger’ shares World War Two battle memories
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‘D Day Dodger’ shares World War Two battle memories

[ad_1] 5 hours ago Mark McAlindon,BBC Look North BBC Matt MacKinnon Pattison said for 80-odd years children still thought D-Day was “the beginning and the end the war” As the nation prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, a World War Two veteran has shared his memories of the battles that raged...