Josh Parry LGBT & Identity Reporter Josh Parry / BBC Frankie O’Reilly was nine-years-old when he met his future partner Georgie Long at primary school in Northern Ireland. The pair moved to London at the start of the 1980s, where Frankie worked as a traffic warden by day and a drag queen by night. By...
Remembrance services for fishermen lost at sea were held across Devon and Cornwall on Sunday. Brixham Fish Market was packed for the Fishermen’s Mission (FM) memorial service which marked the second National Fishing Remembrance Day. During the service FM area officer Helen Lovell-Smith read the names of the fishermen who had been lost in local...
David Spereall BBC News, Yorkshire Getty Images Fifty-four Bradford supporters and two Lincoln fans died in the disaster Forty years ago this weekend, what should have been a day of celebration for Bradford City turned into one of tragedy as a fire swept through the club’s home ground and claimed the lives of 56 fans....
Katy Watson Australia correspondent Getty Images Virginia Giuffre, who became a prominent accuser of Jeffrey Epstein and the Duke of York, has been described by her family as a “fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse and sex trafficking” after her death aged 41. Ms Giuffre was born Virginia Roberts in California in 1983,...
Catholic communities across the South West are remembering Pope Francis on the day of his funeral. Pope Francis died at 07:35 local time on Monday after a final public appearance for an Easter Sunday blessing at the Vatican’s St Peter’s Square. His funeral is at 10:00 BST. Canon Mark O’Keeffe, Dean of Plymouth Cathedral, said...
