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HEROS retrains horses that, for a variety of reasons, no longer have a role in the racing industry. Some have retired, others are injured or were never fast enough to compete.

The charity assesses each horse’s abilities and trains them in skills…

Girlguiding’s Chief Guide has been appointed OBE in the King’s New Year Honours.

Tracy Foster, from Peterborough, has been involved in Girlguiding since she joined the Brownies aged seven and has served in many commissioner roles in East Anglia.

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During her short life, plagued by ailing eyesight and hearing, Ms Morrison went on to edit the biannual journal Mannin and inspire the first Manx Dialect Theatre shows in the early 1900s.

Both were attempts to encourage the island’s cultural…

Mr van Uden said: “My thinking behind the programme was to get some new and younger voices as well, we’ll do more ‘in conversation’ talks and we’ve got a BSL-signed event [British Sign Language] make it more accessible.

“We’ve also got a talk…

A critical incident caused by a shortage of surgical instruments saw a hospital trust cancel about 1,300 surgeries over the course of a couple of weeks.

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (WUTH), which runs Arrowe Park and…

Ken Dodd: The Lost Tapes

9pm, Channel 5
“It’s funny how the taxman always writes to you in brown paper, isn’t it? I think they must know what you’re going to do with it afterwards.” For the first time, these recently discovered recordings…

A fundraiser who tried out 90 new things before turning 90 for charity has been recognised in the King’s New Year Honours.

Malcolm Metcalf, now 92, from Gorleston, Norfolk, has been awarded a British Empire Medal for voluntary services to his…

Hazel Hallett, who lives in Long Stratton, said she was pleased with the new road layout, but that without the traffic she felt some cars had been travelling faster.

“The cars are going faster so something needs to be done about that. But it is…