Jacob Gaskell News Today

Milly Kotecha sits down with president Jacob Gaskell and co-director Kez Prescod to talk Shakespeare, innovative adaptation, and getting stuck at the Swiss border

Martha Vine covers the distance travelled by the ETG before they embark on their next dramatic expedition

Former nanny to the king of Jordan, a Belgian baron and the premier of Newfoundland, Denise Donald has died age 71.

A Wigan teenager whose car ploughed into three people outside a bar, killing a beloved mum, had inhaled laughing gas while behind the wheel, a court heard.

Jacob Gaskell was breathing in the gas from the nitrous oxide canister when he mounted the pavement and struck 44-year-old Laura Hazeldine on April 8.

Laura Hazeldine was at Fifteens on Ormskirk Road, Pemberton, on Friday April 8 as she was visiting family in Wigan. She tragically later died in hospital after the Land Rover hit her and others.

The victim of a hit-and-run outside a Wigan bar has been named as a “beautiful” mum and “much-loved and respected” teacher.

The woman was standing outside Fifteens in Wigan when she was hit by a Land Rover, police say.

A teenager has been charged with a series of driving offences after a hit-and-run in Wigan, which claimed the life of a mum of three.

A man has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving after a woman died in a hit-and-run incident.