A heroic teacher saved the lives of more than 1,600 children in the Nepal floods after their school was washed away by a landslide. 

Rajendra Dawadi, the principal of Tribhuvan Trishuli secondary school in the Trishuli valley of north-central Nepal, received a phone call from his friend on Wednesday morning telling him the village five miles upstream had been taken by the river. 

Nine hundred children had already arrived at the school, while 700 more were on their way on foot and by bus. 

He was then warned by a parent that the water was rising fast towards the school, which stood 200ft above the river. 

It came amid devastating landslides and flash floods which struck Nepal on Wednesday, leaving 734 people dead and 2,498 missing. Authorities warned of possible fresh flooding today and urged residents in affected districts to remain on high alert. 

Two teenagers, a 13-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy, are among 33 British nationals believed to be unaccounted for. 

Knowing his school was in trouble, Mr Dawadi, 47, quickly began calling the drivers of the buses on their way – managing to get through to all but one – and ordered them to turn back. 

An aerial view of the destruction along the Trishuli River corridor. The school is circled in red

What the school used to look like, before it was completely destroyed in the Nepal floods 

The water had already started entering the school grounds when he spotted the last bus, which he told to turn around. ‘It got to the other side just as the bridge collapsed,’ he told The Times. 

He then turned his focus to the children inside the school, who had realised they were in danger. 

‘One girl had a panic attack, so we put her on the back of a motorbike. The rest I sent uphill on foot, then followed,’ the teacher said. 

The terrified children ran up the hill, where they took shelter under a bodhi tree. 

Mr Dawadi’s quick thinking saved 1,643 children and all but one member of staff. 

Santos Pariyar, 32, a social history teacher who was new at the school, had come in early that day to teach extra classes and was washed away by the floods. 

The chunk of ice and rock understood to have snapped off and triggered the flash floods was estimated by Daniel Shugar – a geomorphologist at the University of Calgary – to have had an area of nearly 50 acres. 

It plunged 1,200 metres down the north face of Langtang Lirung peak into the upper gorge of the Lhende Khola river, near Tibet’s border with Nepal.    

Authorities in Nepal warned of possible fresh flooding today after water levels rose in the Bhotekoshi River.

Flood warning notices were sent to people’s phones this morning as rescue crews worked to clear a major highway connecting Kathmandu to one of the areas worst hit by Wednesday’s catastrophic floods.

In the town of Galchhi, a group of residents sought higher ground on a nearby bridge and watched as the river swept through. 

The combined toll in Nepal and Tibet rose to 750 people dead and more than 3,000 missing after the latest updates today. 

Nepal’s disaster agency said the death toll had climbed to 734 with 2,498 people missing, while Chinese authorities reported 16 deaths and 546 missing, including more than 100 Nepalis and people from over 12 countries.

The latest warnings came after Chinese authorities informed their Nepalese counterparts of increased water flow upstream. 

But residents of the flood-hit villages said they were struggling to make sense of near-constant alarms they have received since the initial floods.

Resident Govind Shreshta said: ‘Sometimes they say a flood is coming, then we have to run again to higher ground, even at night. There is also rain.

‘It’s really difficult for me. I have a 72-year-old father and 70-year-old mom. I must carry them and I am exhausted.’ 

Damaged homes in Trishuli Bazar following the flash flood, in Nuwakot district, Nepal 

Mr Dawadi is pictured, right, outside the school before tragedy struck 

Devi Ghat town was torn to shreds by the floods, with livestock left rotting on top of the mud

Devi Ghat was devastated by the floods which killed hundreds of people and left thousands missing

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Dramatic footage showed the moment hikers witnessed a giant glacier collapse in the Himalayas

The video, filmed by a Chinese tour guide in Tibet, shows huge chunks of ice breaking away from a ridge on Langtang Lirung peak, on the Nepali side of the border

Large concrete and smaller suspension bridges were destroyed, leaving communities on the other side of the river with less easy access.

Prithvi Highway is a crucial supply route for food, fuel and other goods entering Kathmandu from other parts of the country. 

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said today that his country will send a specialized disaster search-and-rescue team to Nepal to assist with relief efforts and help evacuate Malaysians affected by the disaster. Malaysia has also pledged $1million in financial aid to Nepal. 

Last night, dramatic footage showed the moment hikers witnessed the giant glacier collapse in the Himalayas, triggering the catastrophic flash floods and mudslides. 

The video, filmed by a Chinese tour guide in Tibet, shows huge chunks of ice breaking away from a ridge on Langtang Lirung peak, on the Nepali side of the border.

Hikers reported hearing a huge crack before ice, rock and debris plunged into the valley below, sending an enormous cloud of dust billowing into the air.

The glacier collapse triggered a landslide which formed a lake in the valley below, before a torrent of water and debris surged through the mountain river system towards the Gyirong border crossing.

A second video shows debris racing down the mountainside immediately in the aftermath of the collapse, marking the beginning of the disaster that would devastate communities downstream.

Kent Jones’s carefully wrought film Late Fame offers a wry eulogy for vanished bohemia and a deft meditation on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous dictum that “there are no second acts in American lives”.

Almost half a century ago, Ed Saxberger (Willem Dafoe) was a minor figure on the New York poetry scene. But as Ed himself acknowledges: “I had my moment. It passed.”

The decades since the publication of his solitary volume of verse, Way Past Go, have passed in utter obscurity. So returning home one wintry evening, Ed is surprised to be met by Myers (Edmund Donovan, enjoyably vampiric), a twentysomething stranger who hails him as a forgotten literary genius and an avatar of “Old Downtown” New York.

Myers introduces himself as the leader of a small group of nostalgic aesthetes who have rediscovered and taken inspiration from Ed’s slender, long out-of-print volume of Beat-ish verses. Sceptical yet flattered, Ed lets Myers prevail upon him to meet his band of self-styled analogue contrarians (snottily deprecating the digital influencers huddled over their smartphones at the next table).

His new pals press Ed to compose a new poem – his first in decades – as the star turn in an absurd faux-New Wave “happening” whose planning gives the film its light narrative framework. With his library of taped poets – T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Gary Snyder – for company, Ed doggedly pursues inspiration through the chilly Manhattan streets (atmospherically filmed by Wyatt Garfield).

Passing the designer boutiques and high-end restaurants of 21st-century SoHo, he seems a man out of time – a distant cousin perhaps of the night crawler Dafoe played in Paul Schrader’s Light Sleeper (1992). Even his booklined one-bedroom Lower East Side walkup feels like a holdover from a bygone era of affordable rents in cold-water apartments.

But that Patti Smith past is a distant country, and so it seems is Ed’s creative spark. The suggestive phrase “seasons collide” offers the germ of an idea, but his yellow legal pad remains obstinately blank. Come the big night, Ed can only offer to read a 45-year-old poem from Way Past Go – though as he points out to the disappointed Myers, as far as the audience is concerned it could just as well be brand new.

Long-vanished counterculture

Ed is in every scene of the film, so inevitably much depends on Willem Dafoe’s performance – which happily is ideally cast and perfectly judged. Initially it feels a stretch that Dafoe’s edgy, charismatic screen persona could be submerged in the unremarkable routines of Ed’s life – his daily grind as a postal worker, toasted tuna sandwiches, rounds of pool at the local bar with his small coterie of blue-collar male friends.

But it’s precisely by playing off these expectations – and perhaps our awareness of his own long career as a fixture on the real downtown scene (a founder member of the avant garde Wooster Group theatre company) – that Dafoe comes to embody Ed’s distant boho past, his workaday present, and his unsuspected hunger for something more, all so credibly.

Another actor might also have had us worrying for Ed’s wellbeing or that this vulnerable older man might be exploited, knowingly or otherwise, by his callow new pals. But Dafoe’s feral mien, however subdued here, reassures us he’s no patsy. Ed sees as clearly as we do that these self-styled artistes are quintessential poseurs, rich kids lightly slumming on daddy’s dime in retro coffeehouses and loft apartments accessorised with $1,200 first editions of Naked Lunch.

None of them gives the slightest indication of any talent, or for that matter the application to pursue their chosen craft. (If they were for real, they’d be in Bushwick or Hoboken, not rubbing shoulders with the hedge fund managers in SoHo.)

They’re simply tripping on secondhand memories of a long-vanished counterculture to which Ed gives them vicarious access – even as he freely admits his acquaintance with legends like Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso was fleeting at best. For Ed, being part of an artistic coterie – however ersatz – after all this time is like whistling a half-forgotten tune, the pleasurable twitch of a phantom limb.

If anyone threatens to unmoor Ed it’s Grace (Greta Lee), the only woman in Myers’s band. Older than the others – though still many years Ed’s junior – she’s the group’s self-styled muse, channelling Louise Brooks, Marlene Dietrich and Audrey Hepburn in equal measure.

Ed gladly lets Grace – who’s motivated perhaps by an awareness that her own persona is precariously fabricated – seduce him into embracing his improbable shot at late-in-life celebrity, lubricated if needs be by the occasional fib. Ed even takes a meeting with a vapid literary agent to discuss the publication of his (non-existent) memoir. It’s in these passages of the film, as Ed testily rejects his decidedly unliterary working-class buddies, that we fear he may really be losing his compass. But will he fall for this chance of late-blooming fame?

Ultimately, Late Fame might be seen as a reflection on the profound unknowability of people. Myers’s real motivations and ambitions remain strangely opaque. Grace’s siren persona belies a much sadder reality.

Ed himself is estranged from his siblings, for reasons we never learn, and when he finally reads his (excellent) old poem publicly, it hints at a lost romance that may – or may not – have shaped the rest of his life. We can’t know, but Kent Jones has fashioned a film that invites us, engagingly and tenderly, to wonder.

Hail, frequent lightning, and strong winds have been forecast by the Met Office

The Met Office has issued yet another yellow weather warning for Wales as the end of the summer holidays comes to a very wet and stormy end.

The thunderstorm warning, covering the whole of the country on Sunday, is the latest in a series of weather warnings issued by forecasters which have disrupted the August bank holiday weekend for many.

Some local events organised for the last bank holiday of what has been a very dry and warm summer were cancelled on Saturday due to the severe weather with flash flooding seen in parts of Bridgend.

The latest warning covers the whole of the country from midday on Sunday until 11.59pm with the Met Office warning the public to expect heavy and thundery showers, frequent lightning, and gusty winds.

The weather agency said: “Showers, heavy and thundery, will reach southwest England and Wales later Sunday morning before spreading and developing more widely during the afternoon.

“Whilst some areas will miss the heaviest showers, where they do occur 10-15mm of rain is possible in less than an hour, with 30-40mm possible over several hours, these larger totals most likely for parts of north and northwest England and southwest Scotland.

“Hail, frequent lightning and, in southern parts of England and Wales, wind gusts of 35-45mph will be additional hazards.

“Heaviest showers and thunderstorms will become more isolated later in the evening.”

Forecasters warn driving conditions are likely to be affected by the poor weather with journeys expected to take longer due to spray, standing water, and potentially hail.

There could also be delays to train services.

Flooding of homes and businesses is also possible and there could be a damage to buildings due to lightning strikes..

People could also experience power cuts. For the biggest stories in Wales first sign up to our daily newsletter here.

The heavy and thundery showers will continue through the evening before slowly easing overnight with clear spells developing.

Monday looks set to be the nicest day of the bank holiday weekend. You can see the full bank holiday forecast on weather maps here.

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Apple pie is a classic dessert that is perfect for sharing with family and friends and only requires five ingredients

Apple pie remains a timeless classic, featuring soft apples baked under a golden pastry topping, typically with sugar and comforting spices like cinnamon or nutmeg. It’s strongly linked with both British and American cuisine.

Nevertheless, versions of apple-filled pastries have been savoured throughout Europe for generations. A quality apple pie typically contains firm and somewhat sharp apples.

Bramley apples prove particularly favoured across the UK.

Apple pie is frequently accompanied by a substantial portion of smooth custard, fresh cream or a dollop of vanilla ice cream.

This recipe originates from JAZZ Apples, who have positioned the fruit at the heart of this delightful pudding.

What’s more, you’ll only require five ingredients to prepare the dish, with a shortcut technique to help achieve a golden topping.

Simply follow nine simple steps to create the dessert, ideal for enjoying with family and friends.

How to make a delicious apple pie

Ingredients

• Five to six apples, cored, peeled and thinly sliced
• Two teaspoons of ground ginger
• One tablespoon of ground cinnamon
• Three tablespoons of light brown sugar
• 1 x 320g pack ready-rolled sweet shortcrust pastry

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 190°C/170°C fan/Gas Mark 5.

2. In a large bowl, combine the sliced apples with the ginger, cinnamon and brown sugar, tossing until evenly coated.

3. Lightly grease a 20-25cm pie dish or tart tin and line with the shortcrust pastry, trimming any excess.

4. Line the pastry with baking paper and fill with baking beans, dried chickpeas or dried lentils.

Blind bake for 10 minutes, then remove the paper and baking beans.

5. Spoon the spiced apple mixture into the pastry case.

6. Finish with your chosen pastry topping – whether that’s a traditional lattice pattern, a complete pastry covering or decorative cut-outs.

If opting for a complete lid, make several small cuts in the surface to let steam escape.

7. Place in the oven for 30-35 minutes, until the pastry turns golden brown and the apples become tender.

8. For an optional shiny appearance, glaze the warm pastry with a touch of warmed apricot jam immediately after removing from the oven.

9. Allow to cool for 10 minutes before serving alongside cream, custard, yoghurt or vanilla ice cream.

The branch will open later this year

A new specialist coffee shop is set to open in a Cambridgeshire town following requests from locals. Alistaire Ryan and Dan Heath will be opening the new Roost Coffee House branch at Scampers Natural Pet Store in Soham this year.

The business, which launched its first branch in Fordham late last year, has seen great success since its opening. The owners of Roost Coffee House have been friends since they met at secondary school. The idea for the business came about when the pair decided that “Fordham really did need a specialist coffee shop” as well as a “space for the community”.

Following the success of the business’s first branch, the pair decided to embark on an expansion. According to co-owner Mr Heath, 36, a location in Soham had been highly requested by locals, with the location being in the “pipeline for quite a while”. He said that “before we even launched, we had people email asking us to open up a branch in Soham”.

Scampers is on the Northfield Business Park, just off the A142 bypass. Talking about its location, Mr Heath said: “Soham is somewhere that we looked at as a really good opportunity for us firstly because of the size of it. It has a population of nearly 13,500 people and we felt the demographic of people there really fitted our brand at Roost.”

He said that it has ended up being “the perfect location” to enable their expansion. He said the pair are “very happy to say that we cater to all, whether that’s kids all the way up to senior citizens”. Mr Heath said the “inclusivity is what we pride ourselves on”.

Since the public launch, the 36-year-old co-owner said the reaction has been “amazing”. The coffee offered at the business is locally roasted in Littleport and he said the quality of their food is “fantastic”.

The new site is four times larger than the Roost store in Fordham, meaning more tables, space and opportunities for the business. As part of the expansion, Roost Coffee House will be offering breakfast and lunch menus alongside its well-approved cakes, bakes, pastries, milkshakes, and of course, coffees.

Describing what he feels makes Roost Coffee House so special, Mr Heath said: “Roost is warm, welcoming, inclusive and we cover something for everybody whether that’s drinks, food and atmosphere, it’s a place for all and we’re really excited to take our brand into a new place, new town and hopefully continue to grow.”

Roost Coffee House will open its store in winter 2026 but an official opening date is yet to be confirmed. Scampers Natural Pet Store offers everything from natural pet foods, treats, toys, grooming and an in-house veterinarian. Being pet lovers themselves, the owners will be making the café dog-friendly.

The operating branch in Fordham has built a strong reputation, with an almost perfect rating of 4.9 stars out of five on Google. One customer described it as a “cosy” place that serves “smooth, aromatic” coffee and bakes which are a “constant temptation”.

One person has died and five people are injured after shots were fired at an event in northern Switzerland overnight, local police say.

“The manhunt for the unknown perpetrator is under way,” Aargau Cantonal Police said in a statement. “Possible motives as well as the exact circumstances of the crime are still unclear.”

The force told Swiss media that the shooting took place near a horse racing track in Schachen, Aarau, some 46km (29 miles) west of Zurich.

A rave was scheduled to take place in the area into the early hours of Sunday.

An area around the racing track, the town’s swimming pool and sports field has been cordoned off, with the public urged to stay away.

A large contingent of officers has also been deployed beyond Aarau “as a precaution”, police said.

The force asked witnesses to submit photographs and video from the scene.

South Africa head coach Rassie Erasmus has hit back at New Zealand counterpart Dave Rennie over claims that the Springboks are scrummaging illegally.

The hosts levelled the Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry series at 1-1 with a hard-fought win in the second Test in Cape Town, which came after a week of the two sides trading press conference barbs.

All Blacks boss Rennie had suggested that the world champions had been unfairly rewarded during a dominant scrummaging performance even in a 33-16 first Test defeat at Ellis Park, believing that they were walking around and failing to drive straight.

Saturday’s scrum-time action was protracted as referee Angus Gardner sought to repeatedly make clear his expectations to the two front rows, with a messy contest nonetheless resulting in few penalties.

And Erasmus believes that Rennie’s “moaning” had got into the heads of the officials – before picking out a few bugbears of his own.

“It’s the first time in history that people are talking about us walking around,” Erasmus insisted. “Why would we all of a sudden walk around? The first six scrums New Zealand had, every single one collapsed and it was reset, reset, reset. Why is it only on their ball that the scrum collapses every single time?

“So don’t come with that nonsense and saying we are walking around and trying to put things out in the media. The last lineout was skew. I’m not going to moan my arse off about that. If he’s going to start moaning about stuff like that, then they are under pressure.

“Last week we didn’t moan when there was clearly a lot of head contacts. Today in the first 40 there were four head contacts and nothing was done about it, and then Lood [de Jager] gets the first one.

“Don’t try and convince people through the media. The first week they tried to convince people in the media we were slowing the game down – and we’re not. There is obviously a plan to get that message out. We’re not going to stay quiet and say, ‘ja, we’re walking around’. We’re not f…..g walking around. We are scrumming through.

“We’re never ever been accused of walking around. I don’t understand it.”

Erasmus had tinkered with his line-up at the last moment at Cape Town Stadium, swapping his front rows with the trio of Gerhard Steenekamp, Deon Fourie and Thomas du Toit starting.

Steenekamp and Fourie were removed before half time with Ox Nche and Malcolm Marx – originally named to start – brought on and making a pivotal impact.

Despite defeat, Rennie was happier with the officiating at the set-piece.

“The scrums were better tonight,” said Rennie. “I think Angus [Gardner] was pretty strong around setting a mark and trying to keep the hookers in the same sort of spacing. If the Springboks moved across further left, he stopped them.

“We’ll give a bit of feedback on that. It’s still a bit of an issue for us because they’re able to walk around and go straight through our tighthead. There are a couple of technical things we’ll share again. In the end both teams were able to play off the scrums and Angus did a reasonable job there.”

The series continues on Saturday as the two sides return to Johannesburg for the third Test at FNB Stadium. It will conclude in Baltimore on Saturday 12 September.

A man was flown to hospital by air ambulance after an incident on the Batman Gotham City Escape roller coaster at the Warner Park in Madrid.

A man has been left with potentially serious injuries after an incident on a rollercoaster at a popular amusement park in Spain.

The 49-year-old was airlifted to hospital after suffering injuries on the Batman Gotham City Escape ride at Warner Park in Madrid on Saturday.

The man reportedly broke both his legs on the coaster, which features a 98-degree drop from a height of 45 metres (147ft) and multiple complete turns and reaches speeds of up to 100 kilometres per hour.

Emergency workers said the man had suffered an open fracture in his left leg as well as a closed fracture in his right leg, EuropaPress reports.

Park management said the ride had been stopped immediately and emergency procedures had been activated, with the injured man treated by emergency teams at the scene.

After initial treatment at the scene, he was taken by air ambulance to the 12 de Octubre Hospital where he was reportedly admitted in a potentially serious condition for further evaluation.

The roller coaster remains closed while the incident is investigated in coordination with the authorities after Spanish Civil Guard and local police officers also arrived at the scene following the incident.

Juan José Molina, who was in the park at the time, around 2:30 p.m., told Europa Press that after the incident “there were people crying and having anxiety attacks.” He added that the rest of the park was operating normally after the incident.

In a statement on social media the park’s owners, Parque Warner Madrid, said: “There was an incident today at the Batman Gotham City Escape, Warner Park attraction.

“The attraction stopped immediately and our emergency procedures were activated. The victim was treated immediately by the emergency services.

“Currently the roller coaster remains closed while the incident is being reviewed in coordination with the authorities.”

A stocky, battle–scarred man who lived through one of the most dramatic periods in English history has been brought back to life nearly 1,000 years after his death.

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a man who survived the Norman Conquest and was buried with unusual honours in a church linked to one of William the Conqueror’s knights.

Named ‘Conquest Man’, he was between 50 and 60–years old when he died in the late 11th century.

Researchers say he stood just over 5ft (152cm) tall and had a muscular build, with evidence of several healed fractures.

His DNA suggests he had significant ancestry from continental Europe, while his burial included Scandinavian traditions and scientific tests indicate he may have spent part of his youth in a colder region before ending up in northern England.

‘I’ve been fascinated by this individual – this man of the Conquest – for 20 years,’ Kevin Booth, English Heritage Head Curator of Collections said.

‘Who was he, what did he experience, could he have been at the Battle of Hastings, what sort of person might he have been?

‘With this new analysis, it feels like we can really get close to him. To be able to now look at his face is to feel we can almost speak to him.’

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a man who survived the Norman Conquest 1,000 years ago

The man was first discovered at St Peter’s Church in Barton upon Humber, Lincolnshire – the private church of one of William the Conqueror’s knights – 50 years ago.

He had been laid to rest in a coffin made from an oak tree felled around 1079, with his head carefully supported on a grass pillow and secured with two pieces of local chalk.

Three apple–wood staffs were placed beside him in a burial custom associated with Scandinavian traditions.

For the recreation, experts combined DNA testing, isotope analysis and facial reconstruction technology.

The results suggest his ancestry was far more complex than historians could have imagined.

Ancient DNA revealed the man had substantial roots in continental Europe, while chemical signatures locked within one of his teeth suggest he spent at least part of his adolescence in a colder climate before ending up in northern England.

Scientists say the findings challenge the traditional idea of a simple divide between Saxons and Normans after the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

Instead, they suggest that many people in 11th century England had mixed backgrounds and connections stretching across northern Europe.

English Heritage Head Curator of Collections Kevin Booth lays out the skeleton, which was first found 50 years ago

St Peter’s Church, in Barton–upon–Humber, North Lincolnshire, where the skeleton of ‘Conquest Man’ was buried

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Conquest Man lived through one of the most turbulent periods in English history.

In 1066 William, Duke of Normandy, invaded England and defeated King Harold II at the Battle of Hastings, bringing Anglo–Saxon rule to an end.

The victory transformed the country. Norman nobles seized control of vast swathes of land, castles sprang up across England and French became the language of the ruling elite.

For ordinary people, the conquest brought sweeping political, social and cultural change as a new foreign–born aristocracy took power.

Historians estimate that within two decades almost all of England’s major landowners had been replaced by Norman lords loyal to William.

‘The classic way of understanding the Battle of Hasting is binary – them and us,’ Mr Booth said. ‘But what Conquest Man illustrates is so much richer than that.

‘We don’t know if he was Saxon or Norman. He may have been neither – a man of continental, Scandinavian influences.

‘He’s a fascinating survivor of a cataclysmic period in history. Born in the reign of Viking King Cnut, he survived the Norman Conquest to be buried with honour next to a pre–Conquest church, part of the new Norman world.’

The man had been laid to rest in a coffin made from an oak tree felled around 1079, with his head carefully supported on a grass pillow and secured with two pieces of local chalk

Dr Sarah Stark, Human Skeletal Biologist at Historic England, said: ‘The science does not point to one simple homeland for this individual.

‘Instead, his skeleton, burial, ancient DNA and isotope results suggest a man connected to the wider continental world.

‘He may have travelled to Barton, or he may have been born locally into a community already shaped by those connections.

‘In either case, his burial suggests that the traditions associated with him were meaningful and recognisable within the Barton community, reminding us that identity in 11th–century England was far more complex than simple categories like Saxon or Norman.’

Conquest Man’s skeleton will be on display at St Peter’s Church in Barton-upon-Humber on September 20.

Rescue efforts are continuing for a vessel in distress in the English Channel as two crew members remain missing, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency has said.

A coastguard rescue helicopter, fixed wing plane and two RNLI lifeboats began searching an area south-west of Eddystone Lighthouse off Plymouth shortly after 18:00 BST on Saturday night.

In an update early on Sunday, HM Coastguard in Falmouth confirmed three of the five people aboard the boat had now been accounted for. It did not share further information about the vessel or the nature of the emergency.

A large number of civilian vessels were assisting the “intensive search”, the coastguard added.

On Sunday morning, a spokesperson for HM Coastguard said they maintained the intensive search during the night.

“It is continuing today with multiple assets sent to help,” they added.

Lifeboat crews from Newlyn and Salcombe took over the search from the Plymouth and Falmouth RNLI crews, who had worked through the night.