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Salisbury’s Studio Theatre is staging its two festival award-winning comedies at its Ashley Road theatre on May 10 and 11 at 8pm.

VILLAGES across South Oxfordshire paid tribute to the Queen following her death and to the new King. Union flags were lowered to half-mast and books of condolen...

Stephen Lees Rowe recruited a highways worker as an excuse to travel as key workers, the court hears.

A man who raped two women in Thetford Forest after meeting them online went onto defraud six others after creating fake accounts online.

A man who raped two women in Thetford Forest after meeting them online went onto defraud six others after creating fake accounts online.

A man who raped two women in Thetford Forest after meeting them online went onto defraud six others after creating fake accounts online.

A man who raped two women in Thetford Forest after meeting them online went onto defraud six others after creating fake accounts online.

A man who raped two women in Thetford Forest after meeting them online went onto defraud six others after creating fake accounts online.

Norwich Crown Court - Credit: Archant A convicted sex offender has been found guilty of raping a teenager who still has nightmares about what happened, a court has heard. Simon Pettitt, 38, is already serving a 12 year prison sentence after having been convicted of the sexual abuse of two children in 2014. Pettitt, formerly of North View Drive, Whissonett, near Fakenham, was jailed after being found guilty of five counts of sexual abuse, one count of rape and one count of sexual assault agains...