A historic Grade-II listed almshouse building on Anglesey, empty since 2011, has been granted permission to be converted into affordable homes for young people and families. The refurbishment will create three two-bedroom homes while preserving the building's architectural character and keeping the site at the heart of the village.
A charity walk this autumn will light up streets to raise support for a children's hospice.
Adventurer Karl Bushby, a former paratrooper, is set to be welcomed home to Hull after a 28-year walk that began in Chile in 1998. People are invited to gather in Queen Victoria Square on Monday to greet him, with a welcome from the Lord Mayor, before he heads to his mother's home on the Sutton estate.
Kent County Council has named its 62 new gritters, with children from school holiday clubs choosing winners such as Gritney Spears, Sleetwood Mac and Taylor Drift. The trucks took to the roads for the first time at a gritting parade at the Aylesford depot.
