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First ram installed outside Cathedral as Rams Trail begins 30 colourful sculptures have been sited round the city The Orrery ram will stay outside Derby Cathedral until August (Image: Derby Telegraph) Subscribe today to get the latest headlines straight to your inbox with our free email updatesInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance w...

‘Through drawings and clay maquettes, I designed forms that explored the verses of the ballad. The thought was that the power of such abstraction also represented or implied the mythical power of the subject.  ‘As well as the shapes within the design, the choice of stone was significant as it would be symbolic of the enduring story of the Derbyshire landscape from which one could imagine such a mythical creature might be associated and emerge in folklore.’    Working with the Derby R...

Just over three decades ago Hilary Machell came to Lancashire to go to university. She had been brought up in Biggin Hill on the Kent/London border, but was smitten by the red rose county where she studied for a degree in Theatre Studies and English Literature at Lancaster University. Today the county is still her home. She said: “My parents were both Londoners and my mother was from Sunderland, so I’ve a foot in the north! I came to Lancaster University in 1990 and I never left.” Hilar...

Share Jewellery inspired by books and films is easy to find today – from a copy of the One Ring from the Lord of the Rings trilogy and jewels inspired by Game of Thrones, to various Harry Potter inspired necklaces, earrings and bracelets. The literary enthusiast has plenty to choose from. Readers in the 18th century – the period when the novel began its unstoppable rise – also wanted to show their love of favourite characters whilst demonstrating their sensibility and involv...

Local historian Fred Hughes Want Stoke-on-Trent news emailed to you direct from our journalists? Sign up to our newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice It was my unanticipated pleasure several years ago to come across a pain...

by jiyeon kim Last summer, as the global pandemic raged through Los Angeles, I decided to sort through boxes in my attic. Among the mementos I stumbled across were twenty issues of The Weekly Murmur: Tracings of Student Life, a newsletter published at HMS from October 2003 to April 2004. Reading them, I was touched, delighted, and amused; the articles were informal snapshots of my HMS and Harvard School of Dental Medicine classmates and captured our last year together prior to scatter...

10 Fascinating Facts About The Ancient City Of Pompeii After the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on August 24, 79, the entire city of Pompeii in the Bay of Naples was buried and forgotten until the mid-18th century. Today, Pompeii is one of the most iconic archaeological sites and it holds a special place in the imagination of the general public. When the volcanic gas and ashes reached Pompeii and sealed its fate, the city was “paused” in time. When the site was rediscovered, its excellent state...

MARTIN Greenwood’s new book Every Day Bradford provides a memorable story for each day in the year about people, places and events taken from the…

Winona County Man Pleads Guilty to Killing His Wife Winona, MN (KROC-AM News) - An elderly Winona area man has pleaded guilty to a second-degree murder charge. 79-year-old Joseph Wright today entered into a plea agreement and admitted to the murder charge stemming from the stabbing death of his wife last July. In exchange for the guilty plea, Winona County prosecutors have agreed to a maximum sentence of just over 10 1/2 years in prison with credit for the time the rural Dakota man has already ...

Otto Banks to stay on ballot for Harrisburg mayor Updated 1:28 PM; Today 12:29 PM Challenges to Harrisburg mayoral candidate Otto V. Banks residency status in the city have been finally dropped, and Banks will be on the Democratic primary ballot this spring. Dan Gleiter | dgleiter@pennlive.com Facebook Share A city voter in Harrisburg has ended his challenge to mayoral candidate Otto V. Banks’ city residency, erasing any doubt about Banks’ appearance on the May 18 Democratic Party primary...