Wales captain Aaron Ramsey has agreed a deal to sign for Mexican side Club Universidad Nacional – known as Pumas UNAM – according to the PA news agency. The former Arsenal and Juventus midfielder would become the first high-profile British player to play in the Mexican league should the formalities of the move be completed....
Martin Jones BBC West Investigations Cheryl Dennis BBC Points West BBC Ernest Williams says he feels “bitter” about his treatment by the MOD and will keep fighting to get the pension he feels he deserves Time has not dimmed Ernest Williams’ sense of injustice. Despite being 90 years of age, the former Royal Navy veteran...
One of the last survivors of the assault on the D-Day beaches in 1944 has died, his family has said. Aged 101 Cecil Newton, from Aldbourne, in Wiltshire, who served in the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, died peacefully in his sleep on Thursday. Aged 20, after boarding a landing craft at Lepe Beach in the...
A former veteran who travels the country restoring war graves and memorials has inspired cadets to work on a project in Dartmouth. Cadets from the Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC) have been renovating graves, some of which date to the 1800s, in the town’s Long Cross Cemetery with restoration expert Steve Davies. Mr Davies, who...
Dean Lewington once admitted to being a bit of a footballing dinosaur. “As you get older, especially the way modern football is going, over 30s are seen as prehistoric really,” he said in the autumn of 2022 as he approached the 900th match of his career. Now just over a month away from his 41st...