Thinking Out Loud by Suffolk’s Ed Sheeran tops list of favourite love songs

In order to find out which tunes get people in the mood for romance, HMV asked their 2,000 staff to short list songs from a selection of popular classics and modern day love songs. The comments received on the social networking site revealed very clearly that people became emotionally attached to the songs that soundtrack their lives, with their wedding day being the ultimate time to look for a special song.

Dress like Ed Sheeran for under A 37k? St Elizabeth Hospice and ‘Young Ed’ can help

Hugo Fairbanks Weston, who played “Young Ed” in Ed Sheeran’s Castle on the Hill video is modelling the singer’s old clothes, which will be auctioned by St Elizabeth Hospice. Picture: ST ELIZABETH HOSPICE The sixth-form student who played a young Ed Sheeran in the video for his Suffolk “love song” has followed in the star’s charitable footsteps – quite literally – by wearing some of his old shoes and clothes.

The hearing was at Burnley Crown Court

A 47-YEAR-OLD man hanged himself on the day he arrived back from a two-week holiday in Crete, an inquest heard. Nigel Wilson, of Orpen Avenue, Burnley, was found dead by his partner in the garage of their home on September 28 last year, a hearing at Burnley Crown Court heard.

The hearing was at Burnley Crown Court

A 47-YEAR-OLD man hanged himself on the day he arrived back from a two-week holiday in Crete, an inquest heard. Nigel Wilson, of Orpen Avenue, Burnley, was found dead by his partner in the garage of their home on September 28 last year, a hearing at Burnley Crown Court heard.

Familiar names, faces return to movie theaters

Keanu Reeves returns as hitman John Wick in “John Wick: Chapter 2.” In this chapter he’s forced out of retirement by a former associate hoping to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Wick travels to Rome where he squares off against some of the world’s deadliest killers.

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The family of a mother-of-three who has an aggressive form of cervical cancer are asking people to donate money to help fund treatment that is her last hope. Louise Gleadell, daughter of Leicester Riders’ assistant coach Phil Gleadell, was diagnosed with severe cervical cancer last year, despite never having missed a smear test.

Megan’s spinal surgery trip total leaps to A 5,000

THE family of an aspiring young gymnast are a step closer to accessing surgery that could change her life, following a fantastic fundraising event. Ten-year-old Megan Sadler will travel to America later this month, for a consultation with doctors at the Shriners Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia.

Del Grou with his beard that he grew for more than a year

A High Wycombe man raised more than A 1,000 for a cancer charity, smashing his A 600 target, by growing his beard for more than a year. Del Grou, 44, who is originally from Marlow, decided he was going to grow his beard last January for Cancer Research, after three members of his family – his wife, brother and aunt – were diagnosed with the disease.

Lancashire mother documents her son’s cancer battle

Mother documents her three-year-old son’s heartbreaking decline after 19 rounds of chemo for liver cancer leave him so weak he can’t walk, talk or even bear any attention A mother has shared a heartbreaking photo diary, showing the devastating decline of her three-year-old son after months of gruelling chemotherapy. Charlie Proctor has gone from a bouncing toddler to being so frail that his mother Amber Schofield, 22, from Accrington, Lancashire, can fit her fingers around his legs.

UK confirms two more cases of bird flu on turkey and pheasant farms

British authorities say they have confirmed two more bird flu cases on farms in northern and eastern England, meaning there are now four areas where restrictions are in place across the country to reduce the spread of the disease. The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs said it had confirmed a case of H5N8 avian flu in a flock of about 1,000 pheasants at a farm in Wyre, Lancashire, in northern England on Friday.

Acclaimed actor John Hurt dies at 77 following battle with cancer

Actor John Hurt, known for his roles in “The Elephant Man,” “Alien,” “Harry Potter” and numerous other films, died Friday after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, according to British media reports. The news of Hurt’s death was first reported by the Daily Mail and the Mirror in the United Kingdom and was confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter on Friday evening.

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The Finnish government has set an ambitious goal for residents in a bid to benefit their health — and their bank balances. Officials plan to make the country tobacco-free by 2040, meaning they want less than 2% of their adults to consume tobacco — in any form — by that deadline.

a Don’t get caught out by a cold snap – stock up to stay well this winter

GPs in Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire are urging people with long-term health issues to keep medicine cabinets fully stocked – and don’t leave themselves at the mercy of the fast-changing winter weather. People living with chronic conditions such as diabetes, respiratory disease , heart disease, kidney or liver disease, or neurological disease, are particularly vulnerable when the temperatures drop.

Row over MS charity as third branch in three years prepares to close its doors

VOLUNTEERS battling to save a centre that supports 400 people with multiple sclerosis have been told there are “plenty of other charity shops” to work if they disagree with the closure, it has been claimed. It comes amid a row over why bosses at the MS Society have decided their Ayrshire and Arran Branch centre and charity shop is surplus to requirements with expectations it will close at the end of next month.

Girl who lost dad to leukaemia donates hair

A BRAVE young girl whose father died after a battle with leukaemia has taken the fight to beat cancer in a very personal way. Three years ago, 11-year-old Eduarda Lima and her younger brother Gustavo were dealt the cruellest of blows with the loss of their dad.

How an illness led to a piece of Kirk history

Church of Scotland’s first Asian female minister tAquila Singh, who was brought up in the Christian faith from birth, will be ordained and inducted into Fernhill and Cathkin Parish Church in Rutherglen.Rev Aquila Singh PERHAPS unusually, Aquila Singh can remember something that happened when she was just two years old. She and her mother were about to board a plane that would take them from their native Pakistan to Glasgow, her father already having made the journey to find them a place to live.

Bridgwater charity celebrates A 5,000 funding boost

Towards Tomorrow Together provide services including supplying memory boxes to Musgrove Park Hospital and hosting monthly support groups in Chard, Taunton and Bridgwater . The funds awarded to Towards Tomorrow Together from the Aviva Community Fund will be used to provide bereavement training to local holistic therapists before fully funding a course of up to six sessions of selected therapies, including aromatherapy, reiki, reflexology and hypnotherapy.