Sam Horner News Today

Russell Brand announced this week that he has become a Christian, and was baptised last weekend. He says he was fully immersed in the notoriously dirty River Thames.

More than 500 sun gazers at West Chester University worried that they might get shut out by the clouds and not be able to view when the moon would cover up to 90% of the spring afternoon sun. Upland Country Day School in East Marlborough also viewed the eclipse.

EMERGING from the cold concrete gloom of a multi-storey car park, a bitterly long winter and three months of lockdown, the door opened to reveal the sights, smells and sounds of a sunny beer garden. I stood for a moment to drink in the atmosphere, enviously admiring the cool frothy pre-noon pints, while the ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ from Handel’s Messiah played in my head. The sun shone on the customers of The Bishops’ Mill, a ‘Spoons pub in the Walkergate complex, while people queued...