[ad_1] A pilot who died after a Spitfire crashed in a field in Lincolnshire has been named by the RAF as Sqn Ldr Mark Long. Emergency crews were called to the crash site, near RAF Coningsby, shortly before 13:20 BST on Saturday. The World War Two-era fighter belonged to the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight...
[ad_1] United lost more games this season, won fewer and conceded more goals than any other campaign in the Premier League era. End of season victories over Newcastle and Brighton got them to 60 points and an eighth-place finish. But it was the still club’s the lowest league position and points total in 34 years,...
[ad_1] Reuters The Conservatives have set out a plan to require 18-year-olds take part in a form of national service if the party wins the general election on 4 July. Rishi Sunak said the scheme would promote a “shared sense of purpose among our young people and a renewed sense of pride in our country”....
[ad_1] Welsh Secretary David TC Davies has denied that Wales will lose out on funding from Conservative plans for mandatory national service. Tories said they would introduce 12 months of national service for18-year-olds if they win the election. Mr Davies told BBC Politics Wales it would be funded with £1.5bn from “winding up of the...
[ad_1] BBC One report found patients were kept like “animals” at the now closed Tawel Fan ward at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire A fresh apology has been issued over the “poor care” received by some patients at Wales’ biggest health organisation. It follows a review into the action taken in the wake of four...
[ad_1] Polling expert Sir John Curtice shares his thoughts on how the parties may perform at the upcoming general election in this 60 second video. He says the Conservatives need either a “record campaign swing” or “for the polls to be wrong” to stay in power, with Labour well ahead in the polls on the...
[ad_1] BBC Anas Sarwar conceded not all staff at the firm received the national living wage Anas Sarwar has insisted Labour plans for all workers to be paid a “genuine living wage” will apply to all businesses – including his own family’s. The party wants to introduce new minimum rates of pay linked to the...
[ad_1] Jake Zuckerman Floral tributes outside the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight hangar at RAF Coningsby Tributes have been paid to a pilot who died when his Spitfire crashed in a field close to an RAF station at Coningsby on Saturday. The RAF said a “comprehensive investigation” would take place after the plane came down...
[ad_1] A man in his 30s has died following a road collision in County Antrim. It happened on the Ballyrobert Road in Ballyclare at about 00:00 BST. Insp Cherith Adair said ambulance and fire service personnel accompanied police at the single-vehicle crash, which involved a black Volswagen. The man died at the scene. The Ballyrobert...
[ad_1] Police investigating the murder of a woman stabbed to death on a beach have sought to “reassure” residents and visitors they are “are investigating at pace” the “horrendous incident”. The double stabbing happened on Durley Chine Beach in Bournemouth shortly before midnight on Friday. The 34-year-old woman died at the scene and another woman,...