内容摘要：Peter and Patricia Clarke, who moved to the property in Swindon from Cornwall three years ago, said a pond on council land near their home regularly overflowed and poured into their back garden.

Peter and Patricia Clarke, who moved to the property in Swindon from Cornwall three years ago, said a pond on council land near their home regularly overflowed and poured into their back garden.

"People get upset about that," she said."They feel they're being left out and left behind and their kids won't get that chance. That is not true."

Ms Brabin said: "There is no discrimination against white applicants at all."The police "should represent the people they serve - that's how you get trust and confidence", she explained.A man who hit a friend on the head with a wrench because he suspected he was in a relationship with his estranged wife has been jailed.

Alan Westwood, 58, struck at his victim's home in Peel on 31 August.Douglas Courthouse heard Westwood hit the man with a tool that had been in his car.

He was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison, and given a restraining order banning him from contacting the victim.

The court heard Westwood and his wife had first become friendly with the victim in 2020 and had often met for a drink.The closure meant 83 redundancies "many of whom have worked for the company since 2007 and some who worked for Royal Stafford Tableware prior to that".

"The directors have pursued every avenue possible to save the business, but without the guarantee of a profitable forward order book, this was not possible," the firm said.Insolvency firm Moore Recovery had placed the company into liquidation and a closing-down sale was planned.

A Grade I listed Norwich landmark - hailed as a masterpiece of Victorian gothic architecture - has been added to Historic England's Heritage at risk list.The Roman Catholic Cathedral of St John the Baptist, completed in 1910, was deemed to be at risk due to its rainwater pipes becoming "simply overwhelmed by the increased levels of rainfall in recent years".