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Ripon’s newly commissioned Platinum Jubilee Horn will be presented to the city on Saturday as part of celebrations to mark the Queen’s 70-year reign.

Extraordinary confessional confirmed every cynic's view of politics – it's full of incompetent braggards who bluff their way through

Baptist minister Lott Cary led historic journey of freed Blacks from U.S. to Liberia on this day in 1821 Baptist minister Lott Cary led historic journey of freed Blacks from U.S. to Liberia on this day in 1821 MILDRED EUROPA TAYLOR | Head of Content| Face2Face| Lott Cary was one of the first African-American Baptist missionaries to preach and work in Africa after helping found Liberia. Image via Encyclopedia Virginia In 1816 when the American Colonization Society (ACS) was founded by a group of Quakers and slaveholders, its mission was to help relocate freed Black people. And between 182...

Share It was the morning after a sumptuous dinner at Blenheim Palace, an evening designed to be on a grand scale to impress a visiting American president. But instead of smiles, there were horrified expressions on the face of Downing Street colleagues as we read an interview in which Mr Trump rubbished Mrs May’s tactics in her Brexit negotiations with the European Union, blundering unapologetically into the most sensitive issue in British politics. To her credit, Mrs May met this with her customary sang-froid, and elicited the only apology anyone could remember from a briefly sheepish Mr Tr...

UK company Granada Material Handling has secured a davit crane contract with Aker Solutions for Equinor's 88MW Hywind Tampen floating wind project. Manchester-based Granada Material Handling will design, manufacture, third party-certify and commission 11 davit crane units for use on the floating offshore wind farm’s platforms. The company is already now looking to place orders and sub-contract specialist areas of work to other UK businesses and will deliver the crane units over a six-month period, it said. Each of the Granada Python crane units will be fitted to the foundation platforms. Gr...