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Prince William and Kate Middleton showed their desire to be “very accessible by the public” during their latest royal engagement, a body language expert said. The Prince and Princess of Wales enjoyed a fun-filled day in Birmingham on Thursday, as they played darts and tried their hands at making Indian street food.

An angry mum has suggested the gates to a popular Glasgow park be locked after spotting locals skating and sliding on a frozen pond, just days on from four boys tragically losing their lives when they fell into a lake in Solihull.

Doctors celebrates its 22nd anniversary today (March 26).The medical soap opera began broadcasting on BBC One 2000. Set in the fictional West Midlands town of Letherbridge, the soap follows the lives of the staff of both an NHS doctor's surgery and a university campus surgery, as well as the lives of their families and friends.

Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and ‘show how much he was loved’. A vigil was held in honour of the tragic youngster in his hometown of Solihull, organised by residents of Canmore Road where he was killed by his ‘evil’ stepmum.

Celebrity MasterChef 2021 star Dion Dublin, 52, has admitted that although he got on well with his co-stars behind-the-scenes of the BBC show, things suddenly changed between them as soon as the cameras started rolling in the kitchen.The former professional footballer, who sadly narrowly missed out on making it to the final three after he got eliminated from the show last night, detailed his experiences of the competitive nature between the contestants in an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk.While discussing his collaboration with ClearScore in turning the West Midlands town of Shirley to Surely, Dion said he and his co-stars had to abandon their friendships in a bid to beat each other to the Celebrity MasterChef crown.Opening up on

A £1,000 reward is being offered for help in catching a man wanted by police for months in relation to weapons and drugs crimes.

Coronavirus cases are continuing to surge in nearly every local authority area in England with London seeing huge rises, Government statistics show.

BirminghamLive reports. On Thursday, an individual approached a young couple delivering leaflets who initially thought he was on his way to a children’s party.The clown then "stared out" the 19-year-old woman before laughing in her face, leaving the woman frightened.She said: “He stared at my girlfriend for a minute or so and started to laugh like a clown."At first I just thought he was on his way to a children’s party or something, I didn’t see him that clearly."She added: ""We tried to ignore him and carried on doing the leaflets, we tried to pay no attention to him to see if he would stop.

Garden visits have been banned as part of new snap local lockdowns to curb the spread of coronavirus in northern England.

Now more than ever, it's essential to support our heritage brands. Great British Makers is a new series which highlights the incredible craftsmanship in our country.

Property in Oldham and parts of Cheshire is being snapped up the quickest since house sales have been able to take place once more, according to Rightmove.The local areas in and around Greater Manchester have made the property site's list of the fastest-moving housing markets in England, while houses in parts of central London have been the slowest to shift.In Oldham, where the average asking price is £160,083, 43 percent of newly listed properties have found a buyer, putting the town in at ninth place.The Midlands town of Willenhall has had the fastest-moving property market, according to the analysis, with Runcorn in Cheshire identified as the next fastest-moving property market.With an average price tag of £139,140 in Runcorn, more than

FREE newsletter is as good as that first pint back at the pub Leicester's coronavirus outbreak may have been caused by official health advice not being sufficiently translated into different languages, critics say. The East Midlands city is currently under a localised lockdown after seeing an alarming spike in Covid-19 cases in recent weeks.While there was plenty of health guidance available in English, such as locally distributed leaflets, people who speak other languages were left out of the loop, a city councillor claims.

coronavirus rate in Leicester is falling, Health Secretary Matt Hancock told MPs.

A new lockdown map for Leicester has been produced after residents were left confused.

FREE newsletter is just champion! Get the biggest and brightest stories sent straight to your inboxPubs in Nottingham will demand patrons hand over their council tax bills this weekend to prove they haven't come from Leicester. The much-anticipated reopening of pubs, bars and restaurants in what's already being called "Super Saturday" has landlords bracing for a massive influx of customers desperate for a drink after four months of lockdown.

A new report shows the worst hit areas for coronavirus infections in England - while also revealing that Leicester had already started to drop before the local lockdown was imposed.

The full list of latest coronavirus rates in every area of England has been released as Leicester is forced into the country's first local lockdown.

Residents in Leicester have spoken of their confusion as the lockdown boundaries come into force.

Leicester's clash with Crystal Palace is still set to go ahead this weekend despite the East Midlands city going back into lockdown.The news was confirmed by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, on Tuesday morning on Sky News.Leicester has seen a spike in cases in recent weeks, with 866 confirmed cases in the last fortnight forcing the city back into a stricter lockdown.The news on Monday evening sparked fears that this weekend's game between Leicester and Palace would not be able to go ahead.But those concerns have now been laid to rest.Foxes boss Brendan Rodgers insisted earlier this week that he was not concerned about the game not going ahead.The Northern Irishman said: "It is something I am not really

The UK's first full-scale local lockdown will be imposed on Leicester from tomorrow with schools and non-essential shops forced to shut all over again.

coronavirus cases. The Midlands city could potentially see the first local lockdown in the UK after it was revealed 658 new cases were recorded in the region in the two weeks to June 16.On a visit to a construction site in west London on Monday morning, the Prime Minister said: "We are concerned about Leicester, we are concerned about any local outbreak."I want to stress to people that we are not out of the woods yet.