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Muppets creator Jim Henson graduated from Maryland in 1960. A home economics major, he fashioned the original frog puppet ...

Alan Lovell, chairman of the Environment Agency, revealed that farmers caused a record number of pollution incidents in English rivers.

Hazel Stewart is serving a minimum 18 years behind bars for the killing of Constable Trevor Buchanan, 32, and Howell’s 31-year-old wife ...

Officers from the Harwich neighbourhood policing team were out on patrol when they came across a single-vehicle car crash on Wednesday.

A major prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine has begun, the countries said, in one of the few signs of progress from their direct talks last week in Istanbul. President Volodymyr Zelensky said ...

A Hindu festival is set to take place in Colchester with more than 400 people expected to attend. The Sri Srinivasa Thiru Kalyana Mahotsavam, which is set to take place on May 25, will include ...

The former Sinn Fein leader is suing the BBC over a claim in a documentary alleging that he sanctioned the murder of an MI5 informer in 2006.

Rhinos sit in seventh going into Round 11 with two wins so far and face Manchester Thunder in their second and final match at the First Direct Arena on Sunday. While top-four qualification is still ...

Alana Armstrong, 25, died when a vehicle collided with an electric motorcycle she was riding pillion on in Derbyshire in November last year.

Tracy Beaker star Dani Harmer has opened up about the time she nearly landed an iconic role on ITV's Emmerdale.

At least 60 people have been killed by Israeli strikes across Gaza overnight as Israel pressed ahead with its military offensive and let in minimal aid to the Strip.