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Photograph by Getty Images Natural remedy Choosing a journey immersed in nature — an increasingly common reason cited for taking up a pilgrimage — would have resonated with early Celtic saints of the fifth and sixth centuries, such as St David. In the Middle Ages, the eponymous Welsh city was a pilgrimage destination rivalling Spain’s Santiago. The Shrine of St David, in its resplendent medieval cathedral, is the climax of a new week-long pilgrimage trail for 2021, forging the Celtic connection between Ireland and Wales as it treads in saintly footsteps along the wave-hammered shores of...

LG exits the smartphone business as Android's future looks terribly bleak Smartphones are no longer exciting and they never will be again. You know what? That's fine. These devices are just tools in our day to day lives at this point. The good ol' days where people lined up overnight to get the newest models are long gone. Even the once-popular keynote event where companies highlighted their newest phones on a stage has fallen out of favor with consumers -- those events have largely become a joke at this point. An unintended parody of sorts. And so, it is not surprising that a major smartpho...

JURY trials switching to a wartime reduced number, from 12 to 7, have been proposed as a way to help to deal with the courts’ backlog.

COMMENT: Judge Nicolas Cartwright has spoken of sentencing guidelines A JUDGE has urged people to read sentencing guidelines to understand why some offenders convicted of serious crimes are jailed but others are not. Judge Nicholas Cartwright made the comments during the Worcester Crown Court sentencing hearing for Mohammed Raja, who was given a suspended prison sentence when another member of the same gang who viciously attacked a man received an immediate custodial sentence. In another Judge Cartwright case this week, Tim Bird was sent to jail for three years for the violent and degra...

HERE are the five biggest crime stories this week. A DRUNKEN thug twice throttled his girlfriend until she feared she was going to die, spat in her face, punched her and removed her underwear to humiliate her. Tim Bird was sent to jail for three years at Worcester Crown Court on Wednesday for the violent and degrading attacks on his ex-partner in her home as someone shouted from the public gallery: "A paedophile walked out of here last week!" The full story is here – https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/18952362.worcester-thug-punched-throttled-spat-ripped-knickers-off-ex/ A LONE ...