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Robin Hargrave is known to most of us as the man who holds up the ‘poppy collection total’ at the District North Annual Conference every January. He is currently in his final year of office as the District Poppy Appeal coordinator, a role that he has occupied sing 2011……but there is rather more to.... |
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A police officer who was killed after switching places with a hostage during Friday’s terror attack in France was married on his death-bed. Lieutenant Colonel Arnaud Beltrame has been hailed a hero after he voluntarily handed himself over to terrorist Redouane Lakdim in exchange for a female store worker during a siege at a supermarket in Trebes. |
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TREBES, FRANCE – Tributes flooded in Saturday for a French policeman who died after offering himself in exchange for a hostage held by an Islamist gunman in a supermarket siege, with President Emmanuel Macron hailing him “a hero.” Lt. Col. Arnaud Beltrame, 44, was shot and stabbed after taking the.... |
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J oseph Parker’s big brown eyes light up with childlike intensity when he is asked about Samoa, where his fighting heart was forged and where it will remain. The WBO heavyweight champion for now is a commuter between his adopted home, New Zealand, his workplace, Las Vegas, and London. |
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JAZZ songbird Dudu Manhenga has revealed that life was not rosy for her after her release from prison, as she was rejected by business partners as she got a taste of the stigma that ex-convicts face after their release from jail. Manhenga was in 2013 convicted of culpable homicide for causing the death of a motorcyclist in an accident in 2010. |
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A mass is being held, paying tribute to the victims of the attack. It has emerged that hours before his death Lt Col Beltrame married his partner Marielle in a ceremony at a hospital in Carcassonne. According to reports, the couple had been planning a church wedding in June after they met during a tour of an abbey in France in 2016. |
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COLONEL Arnaud Beltrame, 44, gave himself up to the gun-wielding extremist when the shop was stormed by in Trebes, near Toulouse. The brave officer secretly left his phone on so officers outside could hear what was happening inside - meaning they knew to storm the supermarket straight away when they heard gunshots. |
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COLUMBUS. Jim Hemmelgarn completed his earthly mission and returned peacefully home to his Lord and Creator, surrounded on his last day by loving family. The “big man with the big voice” spent his time here heralding the people of Columbus and Indianapolis with a singing voice that was made for big.... |
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COLUMBUS. James Gilbert Curry, 85, of Columbus, passed away March 23 in the care of Our Hospice at the Four Seasons home. Born in Dale, Indiana, January 18, 1933, Jim lived full and well and was known among family and friends as a man of good works. He enjoyed joining the usual set of duffers for a.... |
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Once proclaimed “the most beautiful woman in the world,” Hedy Lamarr is remembered as the silver screen siren who scandalized show business in a 1930s nude scene. The raven-haired actress, who died at the turn of the millennium at age 86, wrote in her memoirs that “any girl can be glamorous: all you have to do is stand still and look stupid. |
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The couple had already been planning a church wedding in June after meeting during a tour of an abbey in France in 2016. A priest identified only as Father Jean-Baptiste on Saturday described how the couple had “spent some 30 hours preparing for their marriage ceremony”. |
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