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Locked up in lockdown: Names and faces of the men and women banged up in December The list includes brutal rapists, violent attacks and armed burglars Teesside criminals jailed in December 2020 Get the latest news from Teesside Crown Court direct to your inbox with our free email newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for o...

Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue are resting their re-election hopes on a strategy that calls more attention to what they’re against than what they support.

ONE year ago, nobody could have imagined the devastation, upheaval and uncertainty 2020 would bring.  In the space of weeks, our lives changed forever as the world was plunged into a deadly pandemic. Horrifying images of swamped hospitals began to emerge, heightening fear that ours would be next and unable to cope with a tide of critically ill patients.  What began as a story which felt far removed from our lives, soon became all too real as cases and deaths began to hit home. Here, t...

The top ten most dangerous areas of the country for violent crimes such as murders, sex attacks and thefts are almost all in the north of England, a new league table of misdemeanours revealed today. Cleveland has the highest proportion of crime victims in England and Wales where almost one in ten people living in towns such as Middlesbrough, Hartlepool and Redcar have been targeted in the past year. Six people in the area were murdered or killed there in a spate of violent crimes between Chri...

BBC News Published When a young woman was brought to hospital struggling to breathe and seven months pregnant, staff at Bradford Royal Infirmary knew they had two lives to save, writes Dr John Wright. Mehpara Naqvi is 22, a graduate of Bedfordshire university who came to live in Bradford with her husband, Ali, and his family. They werent going out much after Covid arrived, she says, just to the supermarket and to buy things for their baby, who was due in December. But at the start of October, ...

Colonel the Reverend Robbie Hall, underwater bomb disposal expert – obituary He was awarded the Queen’s Gallantry Medal for neutralising a German bomb found under 40 feet of water at Beckton Gas Works Colonel Robbie Hall Colonel the Reverend Robbie Hall, who has died of cancer aged 63, was awarded the Queen’s Gallantry Medal for neutralising a German bomb in particularly hazardous circumstances. In July 1986, Hall joined 33 Engineer Regiment (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) as the Training M...

Former New Zealand Cricket operations manager John Reid with Daniel Vettori. John F Reid, the accomplished left-handed batsman and later cricket administrator, has been remembered by his peers as a dependable team-mate who was a great player of spin bowling. Reid, who played 19 tests for New Zealand – scoring 1296 runs at an average of 46.28, including six centuries – and then went on to have a career as an administrator, has been described as “classy”, a “gentleman”, a “visionar...

John Fulton Reid passes away Cricket by NZ Herald 30th Dec 2020 1:50 PM John Fulton Reid, one of New Zealands finest test batsmen, has died of cancer aged 64. The left-hander scored 1296 runs at an average of 46.28 from 19 tests between 1979 and 1986, second behind Kane Williamson among compatriots to play more than 20 innings. His conversion rate of centuries from half-centuries was 75 per cent, completing six from eight. That...

John Fulton Reid, one of New Zealand's finest test batsmen, has died of cancer aged 64.

2020/12/29 16:13 WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — John F. Reid, who scored six centuries in 19 tests for New Zealand including 108 in a famous win over Australia, has died. He was 64. His death after a long illness was confirmed Tuesday by New Zealand Cricket. Reid’s century against Australia at Brisbane’s Gabba ground in November, 1985 was instrumental in New Zealand’s win by an innings of 41 runs. He shared a then-record 225-run partnership with Marti...