#StreetPrize Winners - B97 5AS in Redditch on 03/02/2019 - People's Postcode Lottery
It's a super Sunday for four neighbours in Redditch as they are celebrating scooping £30,000 each. Learn more about the win at
The Feckenham Road residents netted the fabulous five figure sum when their lucky postcode, B97 5AS, was announced as the winner of Sunday's Street Prize.
Among the winners was retiree Peter who was quite shocked when the People's Postcode Lottery team came knocking on his door. Peter said, It's not every day you get a surprise like this! I didn't believe it was real when I received the phone call, so I think it will take quite a while to sink in, but it's been a very nice afternoon indeed.
Golf fan Peter is also planning to put his winnings towards a holiday to one of his favourite golfing spots in Bridlington. He continued, I love to go away and play golf with friends from my local club and have recently booked a trip, but I think I'll be booking a second one later in the year now. I'm sure it'll be the talk of the clubhouse when everyone finds out how much I've won.
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Regton Metal Detecting Tips: Common Detecting Mistakes
Common Detecting Mistakes? This is the seventh video in a series of hints & tips to help and improve your metal detecting skills and techniques. Nigel Ingram, from Regton, presents the whole series.
Evesham Part 2
In the beginning there was a forest: the area Evesham is in now was once part of the great forest of Feckenham and apart from a few dwellings, isolated churches and the river Avon, there was very little.
In the 8th Century, this area was owned by Ecgwin, bishop of the Hwicce (people of Worcester) and he had a swineherd, Eof, who watched his pigs here. As legend has it, Eof saw a vision of the Virgin Mary whilst searching for some lost pigs near a place known locally as 'Homme'. He took word of this miraculous appearance to Ecgwin who visited the same spot and saw the same vision, then interpreting it to mean he had to raise an abbey in her name on this spot.
It is thanks to this vision that we have a thriving town today, for around the abbey grew other dwellings. Under Edward the Confessor, Evesham was granted the status of Market Town: the fertile soil around the river Avon providing excellent conditions for growing crops.
On 4th August 1265, one of the most bloody battles in England's history took place in Evesham between the forces of Prince Edward (later Edward I) and Simon de Montfort (earl of Leicester), following months of bitter wrangling over the control of the king, the enforcement of the Magna Carta and the barons rights under law. Simon's forces were outnumbered and thoroughly routed with Simon himself taking the brunt of a most vicious attack and dying on the field. Eye witness accounts called it the murder at Evesham, for battle it was none.
Lady Jane Grey
Lady Jane Grey (1536/1537 – 12 February 1554(1554-02-12)), also known as Lady Jane Dudley or The Nine Days' Queen, was an English noblewoman and de facto monarch of England from 10 July until 19 July 1553.
The great-granddaughter of Henry VII through his younger daughter Mary, Jane was a first cousin once removed of Edward VI. In May 1553, she was married to Lord Guildford Dudley, a younger son of Edward's chief minister, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland. When the 15-year-old king lay dying in June 1553, he nominated Jane as successor to the Crown in his will, thus subverting the claims of his half-sisters Mary and Elizabeth under the Third Succession Act. Jane was imprisoned in the Tower of London when the Privy Council decided to change sides and proclaim Mary as queen on 19 July 1553. Jane was convicted of high treason in November 1553, which carried a sentence of death, although her life was initially spared. Wyatt's rebellion of January and February 1554 against Queen Mary I's plans to marry Philip of Spain led to the execution of both Jane and her husband.
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Almondsbury Community Shop opening 21 March 2009
After four years, two committees, and seven monthly Trial Shops we are finally open - hooray!
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Inchcoonans Competition & Livery Yard
Inchcoonans competition and livery yard is situated between the Historical Royal Burgh of Perth, the Gateway to the Highlands and the port city of Dundee in the small historical village of Errol. The facility is easily reached being approximately 1/4mile from the main A90 road. A stone's throw away from the River Tay, and Sheltered from the cold north winds by the Sidlaw Hills to the north, the flat Kerselands is more commonly known as the Carse of Gowrie. This area rarely exceeds the height of 15m (50 feet) above sea level, which enables Errol, being one of the chief settlements of the Carse, to enjoy a milder all year around climate hopefully allowing us to hold more outdoor activities.
Inchcoonans House and Groom's cottage with woodland and pond is set within approximately 30 acres of which 22 acres are of level grazing, sheltered by woodlands, split into well proportioned paddocks. We opened in the spring of 2009 after complete renovation of the disused existing equine facilities along with new facilities being created. It was inspired by husband and wife team, Neil and Carol Wivell, who have owned and competed horses over the last decade and has become part of a long term ambition to own their own facilities and competition yard
Lady Jane Grey
Lady Jane Grey ), also known as Lady Jane Dudley or The Nine Days' Queen, was an English noblewoman and de facto monarch of England from 10 July until 19 July 1553.
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer , known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey. While he achieved fame during his lifetime as an author, philosopher, alchemist and astronomer, composing a scientific treatise on the astrolabe for his ten year-old son Lewis, Chaucer also maintained an active career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Among his many works, which include The Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Legend of Good Women and Troilus and Criseyde, he is best known today for The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer is a crucial figure in developing the legitimacy of the vernacular, Middle English, at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were French and Latin.
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Edward I of England | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Edward I of England
00:04:07 1 Early years, 1239–63
00:04:18 1.1 Childhood and marriage
00:07:46 1.2 Early ambitions
00:10:26 2 Civil war and crusades, 1264–73
00:10:38 2.1 Second Barons' War
00:13:34 2.2 Crusade and accession
00:17:34 3 Early reign, 1274–96
00:17:45 3.1 Welsh wars
00:17:53 3.1.1 Conquest
00:21:03 3.1.2 Colonisation
00:23:20 3.2 Diplomacy and war on the Continent
00:26:53 3.3 The Great Cause
00:30:19 4 Government and law
00:30:29 4.1 Character as king
00:32:25 4.2 Administration and the law
00:35:53 4.3 Finances, Parliament and the expulsion of Jews
00:39:31 5 Later reign, 1297–1307
00:39:42 5.1 Constitutional crisis
00:43:57 5.2 Return to Scotland
00:47:42 6 Death and legacy
00:47:51 6.1 Death, 1307
00:50:33 6.2 Historiography
00:53:56 7 Family and children
00:54:08 7.1 First marriage
00:57:41 7.2 Second marriage
00:58:35 8 Ancestry
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Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots (Latin: Malleus Scotorum), was King of England from 1272 to 1307. Before his accession to the throne, he was commonly referred to as The Lord Edward. The first son of Henry III, Edward was involved early in the political intrigues of his father's reign, which included an outright rebellion by the English barons. In 1259, he briefly sided with a baronial reform movement, supporting the Provisions of Oxford. After reconciliation with his father, however, he remained loyal throughout the subsequent armed conflict, known as the Second Barons' War. After the Battle of Lewes, Edward was hostage to the rebellious barons, but escaped after a few months and joined the fight against Simon de Montfort. Montfort was defeated at the Battle of Evesham in 1265, and within two years the rebellion was extinguished. With England pacified, Edward joined the Ninth Crusade to the Holy Land. The crusade accomplished little, and Edward was on his way home in 1272 when he was informed that his father had died. Making a slow return, he reached England in 1274 and was crowned at Westminster on 19 August.
He spent much of his reign reforming royal administration and common law. Through an extensive legal inquiry, Edward investigated the tenure of various feudal liberties, while the law was reformed through a series of statutes regulating criminal and property law. Increasingly, however, Edward's attention was drawn towards military affairs. After suppressing a minor rebellion in Wales in 1276–77, Edward responded to a second rebellion in 1282–83 with a full-scale war of conquest. After a successful campaign, Edward subjected Wales to English rule, built a series of castles and towns in the countryside and settled them with English people. Next, his efforts were directed towards Scotland. Initially invited to arbitrate a succession dispute, Edward claimed feudal suzerainty over the kingdom. The war that followed continued after Edward's death, even though the English seemed victorious at several points. Simultaneously, Edward I found himself at war with France (a Scottish ally) after the French king Philip IV had confiscated the duchy of Aquitaine, which until then had been held in personal union with the Kingdom of England. Although Edward recovered his duchy, this conflict relieved English military pressure against Scotland. At the same time there were problems at home. In the mid-1290s, extensive military campaigns required high levels of taxation, and Edward met with both lay and ecclesiastical opposition. These crises were initially averted, but issues remained unsettled. When the King died in 1307, he left to his son Edward II an ongoing war with Scotland and many financial and political problems.
Edward I was a tall man for his era, hence the nickname Longshanks. He was temperamental, and this, along with his height, made him an intimidating man, and he often instilled fear in his contemporaries. Nevertheless, he held the respect o ...