Bodmin airfield - Anger as rapist wins 5,000 aid

Anger as rapist wins 5,000 aid
BBC News - A serial rapist from Cornwall has been awarded 5,000 in legal aid to find out what made him commit his crimes. Richard Baker, 40, from Bodmin, was given a life sentence in 1999 for committing a series of sex attacks. Now he has issued a writ

Snow and icy wind herald big freeze
Times Online - BRITAIN is braced for severe weather today as icy Baltic winds bearing blizzards are expected to send temperatures plummeting towards freezing from tonight, forecasters said. The Met Office issued a severe weather warning after the possibility

The Marquis of Headfort
Daily Telegraph - The 6th Marquis of Headfort, who has died aged 73, inherited a great estate in Ireland, but travelled further afield as a salesman of civil aircraft which he piloted himself; he came to wider attention when he was escorted by police from the Isles of

Swans and berries? It's going to be freezing
Daily Telegraph - But in recent days the Jeremiahs of popular meteorology have been bombarding Britons with signs of Arctic conditions ahead. First it was holly berries massing in the hedgerows, a sure sign of a big freeze according to folklore. Then it was the Bewick