The practice's only GP resigned the General Medical Services contract in April.

GP surgery closure sees 2,700 patients moved

Plans to build 58 houses, 48 apartments and new areas of public space in Willenhall have been granted outline planning permission. Derelict structures could be demolished on Moat Street, Temple Bar, Cemetery Road, Villiers Street and New Hall Street to make way for the new homes. Walsall Council secured £20m...

Scores of new homes could replace empty buildings

Councillors say the site is being used by gang meetings, drug users and people on off-road bikes.

Almost 300 homes to be built on old industrial site

New York City, NY

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Cheryl E Preston

Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

A man has been jailed for five-and-a-half years after admitting raping a woman. Al Winfindale, of Ewart Street in Scarborough, raped a woman who was known to him in September 2022, York Crown Court heard. Winfindale, 39, was also placed on the sex offenders register for life when he was...

Man jailed after admitting rape of woman

African Games champion Cynthia Ogunsemilore is suspended at the Olympics after testing positive for a banned diuretic and masking agent.

Nigerian boxer fails drugs test at Olympics

Plans to build 120 homes on the edge of a village can go ahead after the developers successfully appealed against a council decision to reject the proposal. Developers, including Bellway Homes, saw their project for land to the east of Ploughley Road in Ambrosden, Oxfordshire, turned down by Cherwell District Council in July 2023.

Developers win appeal to build 120 village homes

A husband, wife and their daughter who performed together in American gospel group The Nelons have been killed in a plane crash along with four other people. Jason and Kelly Nelon Clark died alongside Amber Nelon Kistler on Friday when their aircraft came down over Wyoming on its way to a performance.

Three members of family gospel group die in plane crash

Convicted child rapist Steven van de Velde made his Olympic beach volleyball debut to a mixed reaction in Paris, with audible boos. Van de Velde was sentenced to four years in prison in 2016 after admitting three counts of rape against a 12-year-old British girl. He and volleyball partner Matthew...

Convicted rapist Van de Velde booed on Olympic debut

Denver, CO

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David Heitz

A dangerous drug that is being mixed into fentanyl is causing those who inject it to develop a rash of sores that resembles a case of flesh-eating bacteria. People experiencing homelessness around Denver can sometimes be seen with these bloody, weeping wounds. I recently mentioned this phenomenon to a fentanyl user who told me about the xylazine connection.

Denver homeless people suffer sores as xylazine enters fentanyl supply

A dog owner has been charged over the death of a man fatally mauled by two XL bullies. Ian Price, 52, died in September after being attacked by two dogs outside a property on Main Road, Stonnall, near Walsall. James Trimble-Pettit, 31, of Fradley, Staffordshire, will face two charges before...

Man charged over death of XL bully attack victim

As the Paris 2024 Olympics gets under way, BBC Sport looks at some of the best recent opening ceremony outfits.

Olympics opening ceremony - the show-stopping outfits

A Roman villa, first discovered in 1770, is less than 200m away from the site, archaeologists say.

Roman remains warning issued for new housing estate

West Virginia State

Norfolk, VA

Four Virginians were confirmed to be onboard when the Titanic sank on April 14, 1912. Phillip Acts and Selini Decker, who lived a few blocks apart in Norfolk, died when the ship sank. Richmond native Robert Decker and Eloise Smith, who later moved to Richmond from West Virginia, survived.

There's a reason no remains from the Virginia Titanic victims will ever be found

A 17-year-old boy was found injured and taken to hospital following the incident on Wednesday.

Four boys bailed after teenager injured

Virginia State

Ronkonkoma, NY

The New York Post reveals that two men who died in a plane crash at MacArthur Airport were from Virginia. The men had been visiting friends in Long Island and were returning home when the tragedy occurred.

Life partners from Virginia have been identified as the victims of a New York plane crash

Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of an 82-year-old man in Doncaster. Emergency services were called to Mexborough just after 07:30 BST on Thursday, following reports a body had been found in the River Don. Ambulance crews attended and the man was pronounced dead...

Murder arrests after body found in river

New York Post

This former fortress has a new lease on life as 26 luxury flats, all of which are now seeking buyers. 

In the English countryside between Sheffield and Birmingham, the meticulously renovated Riber Castle is ready for its market debut as an apartment complex that’s fit for a king. 

Built in 1862 as the private residence of industrialist John Smedley, the building has had many lives, including as a boarding school, a WWII emergency food storage facility and a “wildlife park,” which was run from the castle grounds before it was abandoned and left in a derelict state. By the time the Wright...

This stately English apartment building used to be a castle — and its units are now for sale

The family of a diver who disappeared off the Dorset coast have said they will "miss her forever". Emily Sherwin, 20, from Poole, failed to resurface following a dive off Old Harry Rocks, near Swanage, on Tuesday at about 18:00 BST. An extensive search involving the coastguard, the RNLI, police...

Missing diver presumed dead as family reveal heartbreak

Police are investigating whether the blaze could be linked to others which have happened nearby.

Lidl to demolish GP surgery to build bigger store

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