A DRUNK thug attacked a police officer and threatened to burn down a Worcester pub after a city bender - but ended up with three broken ribs. Wayne Godfrey, who had not touched alcohol for 17 years, made up for it on a session in Worcester, assaulting a police officer and threatening the landlord of the Horn and Trumpet pub after staff refused to serve him. He was one of two people at Worcester Magistrates Court on Thursday following assaults on West Mercia Police officers. Richard Davis was also in court for assaults on two emergency workers, both police officers. Godfrey, 44, of Linnet Rise, Kidderminster, admitted common assault on an emergency worker and using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour towards landlord Adrian Birch during the incident on December 20 last year.
For thousands of years, the sheltered and fertile plains and river courses that make up the vale of Tralee have attracted settlers to the region.
From the first farmers to the Normans, right up to the present, the area is home to an eclectic array of pre-historic and modern settlement.
One of the positives to come from the wholesale development in the past 20 years has been the depth of archaeological features that have pieced together our past. A case in point is the publication of In the Vale of Tralee: the Archaeology of the N22 Tralee Bypass .
Edited by Patricia Long, Paul O Keeffe and Isabel Bennett, it presents the remarkable discoveries made along the route of the bypass by archaeologists from Rubicon Heritage Services and Irish Archaeological Consultancy in 2010 and 2011. The construction of the bypass provided a rare opportunity to explore the rich heritage of North Kerry through large-scale archaeological investigation, with the excavations revealing evidence of over 6,