Reverse rambler nears journey's end

A postman who is walking backwards for charity from Land's End to John O'Groats is nearing the end of his 900 mile trek.

Graham Cooper, 47, is believed to be the first person to attempt a reverse ramble the length of the country from south to north. He is expected to reach his final destination on Wednesday.

The father-of-two, who will have spent 33 days on the road, is raising money to support the adult leukaemia unit at Christies Hospital, in Manchester.

Over the past two years, the postman has completed three back-to-front walks of 25, 40 and 100 miles for the Daniel's Light charity, and says he has only fallen over once.

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Boy, 13, dies at country park

A 13-year-old year old boy has died after falling into water at Hinchingbrooke Country Park in Huntingdon.

The boy's body was found by police and paramedics on Saturday afternoon.

Despite efforts to revive him, he was pronounced dead on arrival at Hinchingbrooke Hospital.

The boy has not been named but is believed to come from the Huntingdon area.

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Villagers take on laird over film rights

Villagers in a tiny Scottish fishing community, which shot to prominence as the location for the Bill Forsyth film Local Hero, are locked in battle with their laird over further filming rights.

A television production company picked Pennan, which nestles beneath cliffs on the Aberdeenshire coast between Fraserburgh and Banff, as the ideal setting for a six-part BBC TV series starring ex-Eastender Michelle Collins.

The residents of the single street village were in favour of Zenith Entertainment's plans, hoping it would bring £3.5m investment into the area and encourage more people to settle there.

But laird Julia Watt has refused to give the company permission to film. The local MP and MSP, Alex Salmond, has been asked to help resolve the impasse.

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Body-in-carpet: Man charged with murder

Detectives have charged a man with murder after a woman was found wrapped in a carpet in an outbuilding behind her home.

The body of Jan Kemp, 48, of Glamorgan Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, was found on Thursday.

Police said she had been stabbed in the head and neck and had probably been dead for some days.

A police spokesman said 37-year-old Ipswich man Stephen Ryder, of no fixed address, had been charged with murder and would appear at Ipswich Magistrates Court on Monday.

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