But what Ms Morgan did not immediately realise was that Powell, alongside his friend Layton Davies, had been convicted of stealing one of the biggest treasure finds in the history of the British Isles ...

Now featuring a bustling high street, manicured nature reserves, and an acclaimed theme park - Tamworth was once the capital of one of England's most powerful kingdoms, Mercia. Its Anglo-Saxon ...

Nurse Mary Seacole, who also worked during the Crimean War. Saxon Queen Aethelflaed, who took over the ruling of Mercia and founded St Oswald's Priory in Gloucester. Ms Snell Pym's show started ...

And as a young man, he sat at the elbow of his powerful paternal aunt, Æthelflæd, who ruled over the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia. When Edward the Elder died in 924, Athelstan was quickly declared ...

Dean Heaney has been named as head of institutional distribution at U.K. firm Mercia Asset Management, according to a news release. It is a new position, and Heaney will be based in London.

One of Sheffield’s newest schools is again by far the most oversubscribed secondary in the city for Y7 starters this September. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Star, you can get ...

Located just five miles from Tetbury in Gloucestershire, across the ancient border between the Saxon kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia, Malmesbury is so old that even the Danes and Saxons have only ...

West Mercia Police has been without a permanent chief constable since Pippa Mills' departure in October 2023. Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) John Campion initially chose Kyle Gordon ...

Lichfield was the seat of an archbishop from 787-803, during the ascendancy of the kingdom of Mercia under the Anglo-Saxon king Offa. The Lichfield Angel on display at the British Museum ...

Last year three golden finds made by detectorists in a Shropshire field were declared treasure at an inquest in Shirehall, ...