Police attended the scene after receiving reports of a ‘suspicious device’ being found

A treasure hunter discovered a First World War explosive hidden in a Cambridge river. Not long ago, treasure hunter Harvinii Richards discovered a World War One medal in the River Cam near Jesus Green.

While out on another treasure hunt on Thursday (August 27), Harvinii was searching the same part of the river where he found the medal, when he came across what he thought was a spray can.

“It was this really big thing. When I took it out and I realised its shape, I realised it was an artillery shell and I panicked,” said Harvinii. He added: “I was careful. I disconnected the shell and put it in a bucket of water, then I called the police.”

Cambridgeshire Police attended the scene at around 4.50pm after receiving reports of a “suspicious device” being found in the River Cam. A police spokesperson said: “Officers attended and the device, believed to be a howitzer shell, was found not to be viable.”

Once an officer confirmed to Harvinii it was a howitzer shell, he said it “blew my mind”. He added: “I’ve found grenades, guns and knives, but I’ve never found anything like an artillery.

“It was around a foot long and very heavy. When the police told me it was a howitzer I did some Googling and found out they were crucial to winning the war. To me, it’s a piece of Cambridge history.”

As it was not viable, Harvinii was allowed to take it home. He is now working on de-rusting the shell and trying to get it back to its original state.

He said: “This is a piece of Cambridge heritage. We all know people fought and died in World War One. It feels like a responsibility to do the honourable thing.”

Harvinii also hopes to eventually get in touch with Cambridge Heritage to see if the shell could be displayed in a museum.

I can’t think of anyone who wasn’t saddened to hear of the death of Dolly Parton this week, such was her natural ability to charm all kinds of people. Sharp, funny, warm and with a huge heart – much like her character Doralee in 9 to 5 – she constantly wrong-footed people with the way she looked and who she really was.

There’s a lovely photograph of (pre-artifice) Dolly being endlessly posted on social media, showing her possibly in her thirties, smiling as she looks straight into the lens, all dimples, mischief and eyelashes. It’s a delight to see her caught in the moment so naturally, doubtless cracking a joke. She is truly luminous in this image.

Later, evolving into what seemed like a cartoon version of herself, she once quipped: “It takes a lot of money to look this cheap!” But Dolly Parton was a savvy woman, who had grown up in a post-war America of rural poverty in the backwoods of Tennessee. Her music spoke to all kinds of people, with her sweet, timbrous voice and lyrics that nailed emotions and lodged themselves in your heart.

“I’ve always believed that a part of my magic, if there was any, was that I look so artificial, but I am so totally real. I think when you hear these kinds of songs, you know that has to come from the heart,” she once said.

Music researcher Wendy Hargreaves sums up the genius of this heartfelt songwriting in three top Dolly Parton tunes. From the unvarnished ache of a vulnerable woman appealing to her younger rival in Jolene, to the foot-stomping feminist anthem of 9 to 5, and the original unshowy version of I Will Always Love You, these three songs point to the breadth and depth of Dolly’s artistry, revealing her profound ability to connect with others through bittersweet melodies, affecting lyrics and that extraordinary voice.

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Fragile states

Late Fame is a wry, tender meditation on ageing, artistic ambition and the possibility of a second act. Willem Dafoe plays Ed Saxberger, a once-promising poet on the periphery of the 1960s Beat generation, now a humble postal worker in the Lower East Side of New York. Out of the blue, his one slim volume of poetry is discovered by a group of slumming-it rich kids who urge him to return to his brilliant work.

Flattered by their attention, Ed is drawn back into a world he thought he had left behind, attempting to write again but finding the page remaining stubbornly blank.

The film also features a gorgeous performance by the very watchable Greta Lee as Grace, someone who has also been adopted by the wannabe boho group with literary pretensions.

Grace, whose sophisticated facade belies a much sadder reality, seduces Ed into taking a last-chance shot at literary ambition, but will he fall for the attractions of late-blooming fame?

Late Fame is in cinemas now

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Given the extreme temperatures in the south of England this summer, Between Land and Tide is a timely and startling work of outdoor performance art inspired by the sea, the shoreline and Portsmouth’s coastal landscape. Featuring a wearable starfish sculpture inhabited by five “seaborn guardian” women, each forming a limb of the sea creature, the performance draws attention to the fragility of our environment and our deep-seated relationship with the sea as islanders.

Between Light and Tide runs till September 27 at various locations around Portsmouth

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Humans and aliens

This year marks the anniversaries of two culturally significant sci-fi dramas: James Cameron’s Aliens (the better-than-the-original sequel to 1979’s Alien) marks 40 years, while groundbreaking spaceship series Star Trek, which first aired the month after I was born, celebrates 60 years. If you’ve never seen them before, you’re in for a treat, especially if you are a sci-fi fan.

Anyone who sat quivering in a darkened cinema in 1986, adrenaline pumping as they watched luckless spacestation personnel being gruesomely picked off one by one, will never forget that encounter with Aliens.

The huge black acid-dripping creature with cavernous jaws heralded a new era of special effects and slick, mesmerising monsters. But even more formidable was Sigourney Weaver’s statuesque, no-bullshit Ripley who instantly became the new gold standard in kick-ass heroines – uttering the memorable and much-imitated line: “Get away from her you bitch!” Essentially though, this was a tale of two females fighting to protect their young, so maybe there was a little more common ground than they imagined as they fought unflinchingly to the death.

Aliens can be streamed on Disney+

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Star Trek meanwhile may have aged less well, and at times feels comical with its studio sets of 1960s-imagined alien landscapes and a scenery-chewing William Shatner as Captain Kirk.

But as history and culture expert Stephen McVeigh points out, Star Trek remains important because it used the subject of space exploration (when the US-Russian space race was at its height) to examine what it means to be human. Its lasting legacy, he maintains, is not technological prophecy, “but in recognising that the most fascinating and vexing mystery remains humanity itself”.

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Right-wing influencer Milo Yiannopoulos, who used to be Kanye West‘s chief of staff and is now his publicist, has reportedly been detained by ICE.

Sources claim the British firebrand was taken into custody at an airport in Louisiana, with inmate records indicating he is now at a detention center in the state, via TMZ.

Yiannopoulos, who was allegedly seized in the New Orleans area, now faces a final order of removal, per US officials and government records obtained by CBS.

His reasons for traveling to Louisiana remain unconfirmed, although West is scheduled to perform at the Superdome in New Orleans on Friday.

Since his rise to fame as a political commentator, Yiannopoulos has been a staunch advocate of immigration restriction and mass deportations.

He said in 2017 that he was in America on an O-1 nonimmigrant visa, which is granted to aliens with an ‘extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics,’ according to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services policy manual.

The Daily Mail has contacted Yiannopoulos and ICE for comment. 

West is pictured with Yiannopoulos in Beverly Hills in November 2022, the same month they visited Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago with Nick fuentes in tow

O-1 visas, which require sponsorship by an ‘agent’ or employer, can also be given to individuals of ‘extraordinary achievement’ in movies and TV.

Yiannopoulos enjoys a longstanding association with West and acted as director of political operations on his 2024 US presidential campaign.

In 2022, during his time as West’s political honcho, he helped arrange the rapper’s explosively controversial Mar-a-Lago summit with Donald Trump and the self-described ‘white identitarian’ streaming star Nick Fuentes.

Yiannopoulous has since dramatically fallen out with Fuentes, whom he now relentlessly derides on X, formerly known as Twitter. 

In 2017, he exchanged vows in Hawaii with a black man whom he publicly referred to only as ‘John,’ otherwise carefully concealing his identity.

As such, it remains unconfirmed whether Yiannopoulos became eligible to obtain American citizenship or a green card via marriage to a US national.

Yiannopoulos has characterized himself as ‘ex-gay’ since 2021, and has commenced divorce proceedings with his husband.

His reported ICE woes come after his client, West, was banned from Yiannopoulos’ native Britain over the antisemitic diatribes that torpedoed his career, including praise for Hitler and a vow to go ‘death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE.’

Sources claim the British firebrand was taken into custody at an airport in Louisiana, with inmate records indicating he is now at a detention center there, via TMZ; pictured 2017

West took out a full-page ad apologizing for the comments in the Wall Street Journal this January, three months before he was prohibited from entering the UK.

He had been scheduled to a headline a music festival at Finsbury Park in London that was called off altogether after his appearance there became impossible.

West has also seen planned concerts canceled in Poland and France this year as a result of the continuing backlash to his tirades about Jews, as well as to a past embrace of Nazi iconography so extravagant that he released a single called Heil Hitler and sold merchandise splashed with swastikas.

He was set to perform at the Gazprom Arena in St Petersburg in October, which would have made him the highest-profile western artist to play Russia since the outbreak of the Ukraine War, but those shows were also scrapped amid blowback.

However he has been able to stage concerts in America, as well as in Mexico, Turkey and such post-Soviet countries as Georgia and Kazakhstan.

In his Wall Street Journal ad, West blamed his antisemitic remarks on his infamous 2002 car crash, which he claimed left him with brain damage that went ‘unnoticed’ and led to the development of his subsequently diagnosed bipolar disorder.

The closure of the award-winning Queen O’ T’owd Thatch in South Milford, between Leeds and Selby, was announced yesterday (Thursday) on social media.

The statement said the closure was with ‘a heavy heart’ but added there were many factors behind it.

It explained: “Running a pub takes a huge amount of time, effort and commitment, and it also relies on having the right support around it.

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“We have done our very best to keep the doors open and to provide somewhere for people to come together and enjoy. However, over recent months, the challenges have unfortunately become too much to continue as things stand.

“We have been trying since February to employ a new management couple or a chef but the industry is on a decline, we have been unsuccessful due both management couples & chefs are leaving the industry to do other jobs. High overheads are also adding to the hospitality industry decline.”

The statement thanked those who had supported the pub, calling it “incredibly sad” to close the pub until a “suitable tenant can be found.”

The closure, which began today, comes despite the pub earning good reviews on social media.

Google awards the venue 4.9 stars out of five based on 31 reviews.

Tripadvisor awards 4.1 stars out of five based on 56 reviews, ranking it 488th out of 1,979 restaurants in Leeds.

However, the Press has reported the gastropub has previously faced challenges due to higher rents and other costs leading former managers to leave the pub in 2023.

Last month, the pub commented on Facebook that business seemed quitter than usual, which might have been due to the holidays, or festivals.

The post continued: “Well, pubs don’t stay open on good memories and Facebook likes. They stay open because folk walk through t’door, have a pint and put the world to rights and keep the lights on.

“Your local isn’t just somewhere that sells beer. It’s where birthdays are celebrated, friendships are made, darts are argued over, politics get serious, and someone always knows someone who knows your dad!

“So instead of saying, “We really should go,” just go!!

“One pint. One visit. It all helps.

“Because once your local’s gone, all that’s left is everyone saying, “It were a cracking pub, that.”

It added: “We’re open to any suggestions of things you’d like to see other than what we already offer!”

The nine photos from The Bolton News archive were taken in 1974, when flares were very much in fashion and Mud, The Rubettes and Paper Lace released some of the best-selling singles of the year.

Perhaps you were at school in Bolton at this time. You might even be in one of the photographs.

Hopefully they will bring back fond memories for some Looking Back readers who are probably wondering how those five decades have flown by.

To share your memories of schooldays in Bolton, email bygones@nqnw.co.uk and don’t forget to include some photos, as we’d love to see them.

Officers for South Wales Police have released a description of the pensioner and what she was last seen wearing

Police are appealing for help to find a missing 90-year-old woman last seen in Swansea Market. Margaret Gleeson went last seen at the market at around 3pm on Friday.

Officers for South Wales Police have released a description of the pensioner and what she was last seen wearing in the hope that anyone with information will come forward to help with their search. They have encouraged anyone who has spotted her to get in touch.

A spokesperson for South Wales Police said: “Margaret, 90, has been reported as missing. She was last seen in Swansea Market, Oxford Street, around 3pm today.

“She is described as around 5’4, wearing a beige overcoat, jeans, and a peak hat. Anyone who may have seen Margaret, or who has information which will help us find her, is asked to contact us by one of the below means quoting occurrence number 2600283142.”

Police can by contacted online or by calling 101.

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Updated: 19:53 BST, 28 August 2026

The company is planning to use more than 200,000 tonnes of waste products a year to produce energy

A new energy plant could be built right next to an already existing site. Pretoria Energy has submitted plans to build a large anaerobic digestion plant in Chatteris.

The plant would be located west of the existing Mepal AD plant, also run by Pretoria, and south of Grey’s Farm in Chatteris. If approved, Pretoria proposes to use around 220,000 tonnes of feedstock every year, consisting of chicken and poultry litter, straw and blended liquid food waste to produce energy.

The applicant said: “The primary use is to generate energy in the form of biogas which would be exported to the gas network via an existing connection point currently used within the applicant’s existing AD plant.

“The planning agent has advised the thermal output will be more than 50 megawatts, whilst there will be an estimated 100 HGV movements per day during the week.”

The land is currently an agricultural site. Pretoria’s current AD plant produces 120 HGV movements a day, including 60 vehicles in and 60 vehicles out. There could be an overlap in HGV movements between the existing plant and new one. However, the applicant said this would be for a “temporary period”.

If approved, the construction of the site could have the “potential to create noise and light”. Construction is expected to take around 24 months, with work taking place between 7am and 6pm on Mondays to Fridays and 8am to 1pm on Saturdays.

Pretoria has produced a noise assessment for the applicant. This doesn’t provide an assessment on the effects of the construction stage, but it believes there “would not be a significant effect”.

The site is around 2.2km from the Ouse Washes, which is a special protection area and special area of conservation. An ecological air quality assessment submitted with the plans identifies that the site has the “potential to cause changes in pollution levels at sensitive ecological locations”.

However, the screening distance doesn’t include the washes and it’s “not likely to have any significant effects”. A new 530m access road between Blockmoor Drove and Short North Drove Byways has also been proposed.

Pretoria has submitted a similar planning application to East Cambridgeshire District Council for another AD plant in Stretham.

Not even a fortune cookie could have predicted this arrest.

A California man who twice escaped police by running onto a freeway was finally taken into custody after he happened to walk into the same Panda Express where officers were eating lunch.

The unlikely encounter happened July 17 at a Panda Express on the 600 block of West Huntington Drive in Monrovia. Body camera footage released by the Monrovia Police Department Thursday shows two officers sitting down to eat when the suspect they had been searching for walked through the door.

The man, who has not been publicly identified, was wanted on a no-bail felony probation warrant. Officers said they had been trying to arrest him for about a month.

In the footage, the officers are seen eating bowls of beef and broccoli when they spot the wanted man. After giving each other a nod, they quickly move in, tackling him and placing him in handcuffs.

“What did I do?” the man can be heard asking.

One officer responds, “You’ve been wanted. You’ve been running from me for like a month.”

Officers had previously tried to arrest the man while he was walking, but he fled both times, eventually running onto a freeway and getting away, according to ABC7 Los Angeles.

This time, the man did not make it to a freeway. Police took him into custody at the restaurant without another chase.

The Monrovia Police Department poked fun at the bizarre timing of the encounter in its Instagram post.

“At this point, we’re not sure if it was good police work, bad timing, or the irresistible smell of chow mein. Either way, an arrest was made,” the department said.

After taking the man into custody, the officers were able to return to the restaurant and finish their meal.

“Priorities,” the department added.