HMS Severn joins sister ship Tamar at Portsmouth after gunboats saw off angry French skippers

HMS Severn sailed back to Portsmouth this morning after seeing off French fishermen off the coast of Jersey together with HMS Tamar following a row over post-Brexit fishing rules. The Royal Navy River-class offshore patrol vessel was welcomed home today after it was scrambled amid an escalating standoff with French skippers who have threatened to … Read more

Wild boar in the Forest of Dean ‘could swim across the River Severn’, expert claims

Wild boar currently living in the Forest of Dean could spread around the UK if they wanted to, according to a leading expert.  Dr John Dutton, an ecologist at the University of Worcester, told BBC Radio Gloucestershire the biggest boar population in the UK is in the Forest of Dean. He added that it is … Read more

Police pull body of woman ‘in her 20s’ from the River Severn

A woman’s body has been pulled from the River Severn after a 24-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder, police revealed today. Search crews discovered the body of a woman ‘in her 20s’ in Worcester as forensic officers searched a house nearby. Officers investigated a trail of what appears to be bloody splattered along … Read more

Man, 24, is arrested for murdering woman as police divers comb River Severn

A 24-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder as police investigate a trail of blood found along a road. Three sites in Worcester have been cordoned off as search teams comb the River Severn for a woman’s body.    A house is being searched by police and forensic experts found what appear to be … Read more

Row erupts over bid to rename the Severn Bridge after the Queen

The NHS was founded in 1948 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee’s Labour Government as part of a huge overhaul of public services in the UK. It was formed out of a long-held belief in Britain that healthcare should be free at the point of delivery regardless of wealth or status, with the atrocities suffered in … Read more

Severn Bridge is CLOSED and hundreds of homes hit by power cuts

The Severn Bridge was closed and hundreds of homes were hit by power cuts this morning as Storm Aiden barrelled into the UK with gusts of up to 75mph and torrential downpours.    The Met Office has predicted strong winds and heavy rain will hit the entire nation as the first named storm of the winter … Read more

Severn river cruise review: Onboard the Edward Elgar amid some of Britain’s greatest treasures

We boarded the ‘Edward Elgar’ at Gloucester Docks, landlubbers almost childishly happy to be on the water in fine autumnal weather — and the crew seemed happy to greet us. We were the first people to board the boat since the dreaded virus confined us to barracks, so there was a sense of liberation all … Read more

Giant 27-inch horn belonging to an auroch is found in the River Severn estuary

Giant 27-inch horn belonging to an extinct species of wild cattle that roamed Britain 5,000 years old is discovered in the River Severn estuary Horn was found protruding from the sand and was spotted by two brothers   After freeing the relic the brothers realised it likely was extremely rare   Preliminary analysis indicates this specific horn is around 5,000 … Read more