RELICS from the Titanic have been unveiled to mark a century of the region's links with the famous liner. An exhibition about the ship and its Hanley-born captain Edward Smith has gone on show at the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, 100 years after the

PEOPLE living on a gipsy site near Worcester told a public hearing something about their lives and work at a planning appeal hearing this week. The appeal was launched by Edward Smith and Mr E Smith after Malvern Hills District Council refused to grant p

The trial of a political consultant accused of using robo-calls to suppress black voter turnout was put on hold until Feb. 23 because a key investigator in the case is ill. Julius Henson, 62, is the second defendant to be tried in connection with the aut

Lismore-born naval officer Lieutenant Commander Francis Edward Smith served on HMAS Yarra which was sunk by Japanese cruisers and destroyers in March, 1942. AN UNSUNG hero from Lismore is being considered for a Victoria Cross almost 70 years after his de

An attorney for a political operative charged with trying to suppress black voter turnout during Maryland’s 2010 gubernatorial contest argued unsuccessfully Tuesday that there should be no limits on political trickery to affect elections. There are “a wh

Julius Henson (Karl Merton Ferron - The Baltimore Sun) The trial is underway of a controversial Maryland political consultant who allegedly designed an election night robocall that told African-American voters to “relax” and stay home, even though the po