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A MAN is pleading with the public to help him reunite with his family members who are believed to be in Bolton. Chris Parnell, from Winsford, Cheshire, discovered last year that he had an older sister while attending his dad’s funeral after he died of throat cancer. Now, he is attempting to reunite with the countless other family members that he did not get to meet during his childhood due to a breakdown in family relations. Speaking to The Bolton News, the 42-year-old said: “My bro...

You might not think it to look at me, but I am Irish. My mother is from Co Clare and I spent every summer of my childhood there playing with my cousins on the beach and harassing the cows, up until the age of 19 or so. Ireland is familiar to me in the same way as the UK; I know the plethora of pink and gooey biscuits available in the average Irish household, the uniquely Irish pastime of listening to death notices on the radio, the way in which people are adept at avoiding painful conversation ...

Five things that always happen when you go on holiday with your grandparents Join Rob Crossan on a classic coach tour of Britain with granny and grandad The over 65s are itching to travel Credit: Getty Last week National Express claimed bookings from those aged 65 and over had increased by 101% thanks to the vaccine. Jit Desai, head of holidays and travel at the venerable coach company, stated that last Monday it took the same number of reservations in a day as it would normally take in a wee...

By Andrew Ffrench @OxMailAndyF Business reporter covering Didcot and Wallingford. Call me on 01865 425425 1 Hospital is probably not the best place to be when Christmas comes around. But in some wards at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, as these festive pictures show, there was still plenty of fun and laughter for staff and patients to enjoy. There was much excitement when Mi...

>> the case went into a deep freeze and it seemed like it might stay there. >> in that town, this sort of crime is so out of the ordinary, so unheard of, that the fact that they were not able to find someone quickly and make a case quickly and convict them quickly and put this behind them has been enormously frustrating. >> tandy, frustration. what is your word about how you feel? >> i dont know if i can say it on camera. just the level of frustration is -- theres no words really. >> reporter: o...

At home, completely unaware. >> i turned on the news. somebody robbed a bank. and i looked, and i was like, theres my brother, brian. whats he doing there, sitting there? >> sitting on the road. >> sitting on the road. then i said to the kids, does that look like brian, uncle brian? and they said, yeah. >> it seemed impossible, couldnt be true. jean turned to her husband. >> he says, jean, your brothers not a bank robber. i said, i know my brothers not a bank robber, but it looks like brian. >> ...