[ad_1] Mark PalmerAssistant editor, BBC Wales NewsGetty ImagesTwo million passengers a year and 1,200 lorries and trailers a day use Holyhead portThe Welsh government must decide "urgently" whether businesses hit by the Holyhead port closure should be compensated, a Senedd committee has said.The UK's second busiest passenger port was closed for more than a month last December by damage from Storm Darragh.The local council has called for financial help with
[ad_1] Human remains have been discovered at a recycling centre.Police were called to the plant at Tofts Farm Industrial Estate in Hartlepool on Sunday after employees located a number of bones.Following examination by specialists, they were confirmed as human.Cleveland Police described its investigation as "extremely complex and sensitive due to the circumstances in which the remains were found".Det Insp Chris Pringle said: "We have a dedicated team of detectives and
[ad_1] Tess de la MareBBC News, GloucestershireFamily handoutLexi Wilband was just four months old when she was fatally shakenA woman has been found guilty of killing her baby by fatally shaking her.Melissa Wilband, 28, from Newent, was found guilty of the manslaughter of Lexi Wilband, who was four months old when she collapsed in her home in Newent, Gloucestershire in April 2020.Wilband's ex-partner, 31-year-old Jack Wheeler, was acquitted of causing
[ad_1] Women in England and Wales are likely to continue having babies later in life, and having smaller families, than previous generations, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) projections.The ONS says girls turning 18 in 2025 are likely to have an average of one child per woman by the age of 35 - unlike their mothers' generation, which had an average of one child per woman by the time
[ad_1] Aleem MaqboolReligion EditorGupreet Singh JohalJagtar Singh Johal (right) with his brother GurpreetA British Sikh who has been imprisoned in India on terror charges for more than seven years has now been moved into solitary confinement, according to his brother and a human rights group.Jagtar Singh Johal from Dumbarton was detained on a trip to Punjab a few weeks after his wedding in 2017 accused of being a part of
[ad_1] A man has been charged with 64 offences after a major investigation into a funeral directors in Hull in which police removed 35 bodies and a quantity of ashes.Humberside Police began its inquiry into Legacy Independent Funeral Directors after a report of "concern for care of the deceased" in March last year.Robert Bush, 47, formerly of Kirk Ella, East Yorkshire, is charged with 30 counts of preventing a lawful
[ad_1] A man has been sentenced in connection to the manslaughter of County Antrim man Victor Hamilton.The 63-year-old's body was discovered in the driveway outside his house in Orkney Drive in the Ballykeel area of Ballymena in July 2022.Mamadu Saido Djalo (32) from Derryveen Crescent in Dungannon, County Tyrone, pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter and was handed a six year sentence, divided between prison and licence.Mario Menezes (35)
[ad_1] Metropolitan PoliceKaliyah Coa went missing in the River Thames on MondayA picture of an 11-year-old girl who went missing in the River Thames on Monday has been released by the Metropolitan Police.The force said a recovery mission was under way along the Thames to find Kaliyah Coa.Police were called at about 13:20 BST after Kaliyah, who had been playing during a school inset day, entered the water near Bargehouse
[ad_1] The deaths of a British couple in New Zealand are being investigated as a murder-suicide, police have said. Police said a man and a woman, who have not been named, were found after officers were asked to conduct a welfare check in Roseneath, a suburb of the capital Wellington, on Monday.The couple is reported to have moved to New Zealand from the UK late last year.Det Insp Haley Ryan
[ad_1] Robby WestBBC News, NorfolkReporting fromNorwich Crown CourtNorfolk PoliceDouglas Clifton Brown was convicted of attempted murder at Norwich Crown CourtA man who tried to murder his former partner by throwing her into a disused well has been jailed for 24 years.Douglas Clifton Brown, 56, attacked Camilla Welby after they left a party at a friend's house in Norfolk in August 2023.He drove her to High House Estate in Congham, near
