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Alfie Sims custody shot Picture: THAMES VALLEY POLICE An A grade student caught dealing drugs less than three years after he was convicted of assisting a murderous gang has been jailed. Alfie Sims, 20, was told by a judge at Oxford Crown Court on Tuesday he ‘couldn’t tell him what a chance he’d been given’ to only receive three years in custody - after he’d been caught with £2,500-worth of heroin and crack cocaine at the Horspath athletics ground in May. By chance, it was the s...

The new mayor of Helston has set out his priorities for the town over the next year.

Helston South was the only ward to hold an election in the town last Thursday. Returning members include Tim Grattan-Kane, with 356 votes, meaning that he will now go on to come town mayor later this month. Also re-elected were retiring mayor John Martin, who polled the highest number of votes with 433 standing as Liberal Democrat, along with Rev Danny Reed as an Independent (389 votes) and Felicity Boase, who is always known by her middle name Nicola, also as an Independent (372 votes). ...

Tuesday, 11 May 2021, 4:17 pm Hongi Hikas Royal Presentation Fowling Piece (EST . $100,000 - $150,000). An Extremely Rare Pounamu Breastplate Adornment (EST . $18,000 - $22,000). A Rare and Important Pākē (Rain Cape) (EST . $50,000 - $60,000). Webb’s are excited to launch their latest Oceanic and Indigenous Artefact Auction. Webb’s history of industry leading auctions in this category remains unsurpassed, on May 17 2021 we seek to continue this legacy that began with Peter Webb in 1976. ...

Helston has a new councillor and he has plenty he hopes to tackle during his time in office. Guy Foreman was elected to the new Helston South & Meneage seat as one of just two Cornwall councillors for Helston, from the previous three, following a government boundary review reducing the number of councillors from 123 to 87. The division has taken the place of Porthleven and Helston West, and Helston South, as well as the old St Keverne & Meneage division that has been split – St Keverne ...

“It’s good to see, (customers) are all happy,” Mr Guthrie said. “We had four very big days … restocking the alcohol and restocking the food.” Andrew Guthrie with his wife Karen Guthrie and two of their five sons, John and Joshua. Picture: Heidi Petith Mr Guthrie, who has a son in the Australian Defence Force and another in the cadets, said the pub would “absolutely” be hosting its traditional 10am Anzac Day service on Sunday. “It means a lot to u...

Paedophile offered an eight-year-old boy money then sexually abused him Peter Webb, 71, was sentenced to a maximum of six and a half years in prison He abused the boy who was eight or nine at the time on a number of occasions On one occasion he took the boy to a pub with other men before he raped him  The judge said Mr Webb has, little to or no remorse for your shocking history 

Mary Ann Weems gravestone at Godmanchester. - Credit: ARCHANT One of Huntingdonshires oldest, and possibly, saddest ghost stories is the tale of Mary Ann Weems who is said to have haunted The White Hart pub in Godmanchester and also an area nearby at St Marys Church where her remains are buried. In his book, The Haunted History of Huntingdonshire, Mark Egerton, describes how he first became aware of the story in the mid-1970s, but there was an update in 1985, when the then landlord of the pub...

posted on 16/03/21 For insight into what ‘global’ meant in times before globalisation, we have the Silk Road. A network of sometimes secure and other times fraught traders’ tracks crisscrossed 2,000 years of civilisation between the Mediterranean, India and China, and in the middle, the cities of Central Asia caught glimpses of the world on all sides. These cities and their transregional interactions across Eurasia gave shape to important phenomena, such as Sufism, the Mongol Empire, and ...