She turned professional after appearing in the Great Britain and Ireland team that won last year’s Curtis Cup at Sunningdale. She has subsequently posted LET victories at the New South Wales Open, Joburg Ladies Open and the recent Dutch Open. Rhodes would not have believed anyone suggesting she would make such an impact so soon...
Gunmen have killed the mayor of the Mexican municipality of San Mateo Piñas in the latest deadly attack on local officials. Witnesses said four armed men arrived on motorcycles, stormed the village hall and opened fire on the mayor, Lilia Gema García Soto, and a local official who was in a meeting with her, Eli...
KKA Architecture/Sefton Council The families said their vision was inspired by their daughters shared love of music and dance Southport’s Town Hall gardens are to undergo a major £10m revamp inspired by Elsie Dot Stancombe, Alice Aguiar, and Bebe King. Elsie, aged seven, Alice, nine, and Bebe, six, were killed in the Southport knife attack...
Josh Sandiford BBC News, West Midlands BBC Families of Swinfen Hall prisoners say they are not being rehabilitated Criminals at a prison where some cells have been locked down during the day due to serious violence could pose an even higher risk to the public when released, their families have warned. Staff members and inmates...
The Liberal Democrats have taken command at County Hall following Thursday’s local elections despite a surge in Reform UK support which saw the Conservatives lose 33 of the 40 seats they held going into the elections and Labour all six of its seats. The Liberal Democrats won 27 of Devon County Council’s 60 seats, gaining...
Mark Savage Music Correspondent Getty Images Outkast’s hits include Hey Ya, B.O.B., So Fresh So Clean and SpottieOttieDopaliscious Innovative rap group Outkast, pop star Cyndi Lauper and 1960s pioneer Chubby Checker have all won places in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. This year’s inductees were revealed live on American Idol, with the UK...
England’s Georgia Hall is four shots off the lead at the first women’s golf major of the season, with world number one Nelly Korda slumping to a 77 at the Chevron Championship. Hall scored a round of 69 on day one in Texas, while defending champion Korda sits 12 shots back from leaders Haeran Ryu...
A town hall hosted by Republican Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene in Cobb County, Georgia, was repeatedly disrupted by protesters on Tuesday evening. Footage shows police removing three people within minutes of Greene taking the stage, with officers tasering one man inside the venue. About six people were removed from the event, with three arrested, Acworth...
The DelinesLantern Hall, Bristol1st April 2025 Tales of the underside don’t come better than this, writes Elfyn Griffith. Stories of lowlife, hardlife, northwest US; drugs, crime, addiction, domestic abuse, poverty and broken love amid the detritus and the humdrum. Oregon’s The Delines capture it all with a mesmerising deftness and subtlety of touch that leaves...
An American citizen, who was held by the Taliban in Afghanistan for two months, has been released, Washington’s former envoy to Kabul has said. Faye Hall will “soon be heading home” after she was arrested by the Taliban in February, Zalmay Khalilzad, who served as the US special representative for Afghanistan from 2018-2021, wrote on...
Lisa Young BBC News, South West Jeremy Chadburn The first reroofing works of King Arthur’s Great Halls in more than 90 years have been completed A Grade II* listed building steeped in Arthurian legend in Cornwall has been reroofed. It is the first major repair works in 90 years for the King Arthur’s Great Halls,...
Leeds Rhinos winger Ryan Hall has said he is “not bothered” about the achievement of reaching 500 career appearances in Saturday’s home game against Wigan. The 37-year-old, who made his debut for the Rhinos in May 2007, is the record try-scorer in Super League with 256. He won six Grand Finals, one World Club Challenge...
Labour councillor Danny Barnes has left the residents of the Heavitree & Whipton Barton division without representation in County Hall decision-making for more than a year after missing twelve of fourteen public meetings at which he was expected. Neither of the two meetings of Devon County Council’s public rights of way committee that he did...
Devon County Council has admitted that the Heavitree & Whipton Active Streets trial it launched in August 2023 led to a “lack of trust in the decision-making process” at County Hall and a perception of a “downward spiral” in Exeter highways management. It also said that focus groups held in November, after the trial scheme...