Government s chief scientific advisor Sir Patrick Vallance warns UK is in for a pretty grim period for Covid deaths which won t reduce for some weeks even if lockdown measures bring infections down - as Britain sees daily record of 1,564 fatalities
Department of Health figures show the daily coronavirus death toll has risen 50 per cent week-on-week
Analysis suggests that the overall number of deaths suspected and confirmed has passed 100,000
But statistics also show that the UK s outbreak is finally starting to slow, with cases down 23.7% in a week
Sir Patrick Vallance said Britain is now in a period of high death numbers which will not reduce quickly
Memories of PC Les Hopps in Newbury in the 1950s
Thames Valley Police Museum tweets picture from its archives
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Thames Valley Police has a small museum at the White House, at the Thames Valley Police training centre in Sulhamstead.
The museum includes displays on the history of Thames Valley Police and the five police forces that merged to form it: Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxford City, Oxfordshire and Reading Borough.
When the museum is open visits can be booked by appointment only, with a maximum group size of 10.
The museum is currently closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, but it has a Twitter account where it posts pictures from the past.
AN Australian flag, fashioned from an old sheet, handkerchiefs and red body belts in the Changi Prisoner of War Camp during World War II, has made its way to Townsville as part of a private collection. The flag was made by Gunner Leslie Peade from the 2/15 Australian Field Regiment, Stanmore, during his time in the camp. Dallas Moxham has taken possession of an Australian flag that was made in the prisoner of war camp in Changi during World War II. PICTURE: MATT TAYLOR. The flag has been stored in a box in South Australia since the mid-1990s after it was purchased from collector Ken Hughes, who opened the Caloundra Military Museum.
Ken Hughes obituary
Ken Hughes was head of the sculpture department at Bath Academy of Art, where he taught from 1965 to 1985
Ken Hughes was head of the sculpture department at Bath Academy of Art, where he taught from 1965 to 1985
TimHughes
Wed 30 Dec 2020 12.33 EST
Last modified on Fri 15 Jan 2021 18.21 EST
My father, Ken Hughes, who has died aged 93, was a sculptor and lecturer.
His speciality was extremely lifelike and well observed portrait heads. But he also explored other ways of making sculpture, using colour in a long series of works that were often reminiscent of scenes in plays and which, stylistically, owed much to German Expressionist painters such as Paul Klee and Max Beckmann and contemporary painters such as Frank Auerbach and Francis Bacon.
Tuesday, 22 December 2020, 3:08 pm
Senior Constable Barry Shepherd:
Bay of
Plenty Police are issuing a safety warning after two
incidents in Waikato River at Taupo, one of which has
claimed the life of a young man.
An 18-year-old man -
Logan Ken Hughes, of Taihape - courageously attempted to
save the life of a 12-year-old girl from Waikato River on
Friday 18 December, however he then himself got into trouble
in the water.
Another person jumped in and helped the
girl to safety.
Later, in trying conditions, several
rescuers worked tremendously hard to retrieve the
18-year-old from about seven metres of water.