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These Google Street View images show how much Larne has changed over the years Do you remember when you saw a Google Street View image for the first time? Did you spend hours trying to ‘drive’ up the highways and byways, trying to spot places you recognised or work out a blurred out face or car registration number? Thursday, 6th May 2021, 6:35 pm As the Street View team at Google have now made numerous visits to Larne over the years, the images they captured are available as a fascinating w...

Left, Charlie Shane-Stone, and right, grandad Michael Shane A SCHOOLBOY is raising money for a brain tumour charity after losing his grandfather to the disease. Charlie Shane-Stone, from Ovingham in Northumberland, has ran, walked and cycled a combined distance of 52.4 miles over the course of seven days for Brain Tumour Research. The 12-year-old is raising vital funds after his grandfather Michael Shane, from Prudhoe, died from a brain tumour in April 2016, just five months after receivi...

NEWBURY RACECOURSE PLC - Preliminary Results PR Newswire London, April 30 The information contained within this announcement is deemed by the Group to constitute inside information

Expo on preventing family harm brings agencies together in Whanganui 30 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM 2 minutes to read Community and government agencies working to prevent family harm appreciated the opportunity to band together for a two-day expo at UCOL Whanganui. Photo / Bevan Conley Community and government agencies working to prevent family harm appreciated the opportunity to band together for a two-day expo at UCOL Whanganui. Photo / Bevan Conley Liz Wylie is a reporter for the Whanganui Chroniclel...

The sessions will take place online. Credit: ITV Channel TV Pensioners in Guernsey are being asked to have their say on the minimum income they need to have a good quality of life. Older islanders are being invited to join an online focus group to discuss the issue as part of a study by the Employment and Social Security Committee. The committee has been carrying out research to find out more about the minimum income required to offer islanders a socially acceptable standard of living, taking i...

SHE was a centenarian who loved to dance. Mildred Valentine Watts, who was known as Molly, has passed away at home in West End, aged 101. Born in London on Valentines Day 1920, she grew up in Fair Oak where her parents ran the Fox & Hounds pub. She left school at Barton Peveril at the age of 15 and went into service, later working for Saunders-Roe at Eastleigh Airport as well as British American Tobacco. Molly spent 18 months in South Africa from early 1949, which made a huge impressi...

FROM being a lifeline to the elderly to a necessity to young families struggling to make ends meet (with multiple jobs in the gig economy or on zero hours contracts) bus provision is an issue which should be a priority for candidates in the current election. Many organisations from Age Concern, through the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) to the Regional TUC are calling for urgent action to address the present disastrous situation caused by privatisation and deregulation - ...

Man gasping for first post-lockdown pint turned away when he didnt have smartphone David Walters visited The Angel Of Corbridge in Northumberland looking forward to a drink but was told he could not be served as didnt have a smartphone to register his details The Angel Inn refused to serve a pensioner because he didnt have a smartphone to register his details (Image: TimMcGuinness/ChronicleLive) The Daily Stars FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your ...

This was what they taught us in school. This was how you knew he was a good guy: just a donkey for me, thanks. It was the late 1990s, I was younger than 10, and South Africa’s democracy was brand new. The country’s flag was brand new and we felt like we were the first children getting to draw it. Outside of school I watched a show called Kideo: like a rainbow nation Sesame Street, but the characters were an anxious tortoise, Molly Metronome, and a donkey named Mr Chinwag. (In 1996 it ...

Photo taken by Emma Sheppard The Liberal Democrats are looking to take control of Wokingham Borough Council at this year’s local election. The party currently holds 16 seats on the Conservative-run council and there will be 18 seats up for grabs at this year’s election, which will be held on May 6. Last year’s election was postponed by the coronavirus pandemic, but people are being assured it will be safe to head to the polls in 2021. Three Lib Dem councillors – Lindsay Ferris,...