Year 5 and 6 pupils from Brynhafren School, Crew Green, have won the National Bookslam Competition in Aberystwyth. They competed in Powys first, becoming Powys champions, before going on to ...

Mother-of-four Mary Higgs went undercover to expose the awful conditions in the early 1900s.

In 1904, a woman left her terraced house in Oldham, disguised in old clothes and pretending to be destitute. She travelled to a common lodging house and what she found there left her horrified. This ...

Mother-of-four Mary Higgs went undercover to expose the awful conditions in the early 1900s.

For sale: 10 Nantcribba Barns, Forden, inviting offers in the region of £365,000. A beautifully converted Grade II listed barn, set within an exclusive and meticulously maintained development just ...

Celebrations are set across Northern Virginia for the nation’s youngest holiday, Juneteenth National Independence Day, which celebrates the end of slavery in the United States.

xix, 370 p. : 23 cm The story of the recently discovered London workhouse that Charles Dickens lived almost next door to in the years before he wrote 'Oliver Twist,' told by the historian who did the ...

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ST. LOUIS — A federal judge this week put the brakes on a proposed $4 million settlement between the city and detainees at the now-defunct Medium Security Institution.

Storage levels at some reservoirs in Powys have been classed as “notably low”, new figures from the Environment Agency have shown.