Rob Blythe News Today

Over £110,000 has been handed to seven community groups as the area takes part in the search for a suitable site for a Geological Disposal Facility.

A newly unearthed letter from Admiral Horatio Nelson to his mistress Lady Emma Hamilton has revealed how he urged her to give their infant daughter the recently developed smallpox vaccine  The 1801 letter, discovered in the archives at the National Maritime Museum, makes no mention of a dangerous mission to France Nelson was due to make, but instead focuses on the health of his daughter, Horatia. It was written just three years after Edward Jenner discovered milkmaids who developed cowpox thr...