Mother to raise money for 52 charities in 52 weeks
It all started with a charity head shave and now a mother of four is going all out on her fundraising drive and has embarked on a challenge to raise money for 52 charities in 52 weeks.
It all started with a charity head shave and now a mother of four is going all out on her fundraising drive and has embarked on a challenge to raise money for 52 charities in 52 weeks.
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Rail union leader Bob Crow died today at 52.
Rail union leader Bob Crow has died, it was announced today.
A woman from South Staffordshire has been charged with stalking a high-profile child sexual abuse campaigner, police said.
A car salesman has been awarded thousands of pounds in compensation for age discrimination after he was sacked for being too old – aged 52.
A pool-side teaching room has been opened at a school in memory of a well-known teacher and rugby player who died of a heart attack, aged just 52.
[gallery] One of Shropshire's best known photographers has died at the age of 52. Danny Beath won Shropshire Photographic Society's Photographer of the Year nine times.
A Wolverhampton councillor and father-of-two has died suddenly after collapsing while out running.
Fundraisers were today celebrating after completing a trek up and down the Wrekin – an astonishing 36 times.
A gang of armed robbers who tore a trail of terror across the West Midlands and South Staffordshire were today starting prison sentences totalling 52 years.
A Muslim woman was spat at and abused by a gang of six teenagers in Telford who pulled off her religious headdress in a racially motivated attack.
An extra 52 train services will run each hour from some parts of the Midlands if the controversial high-speed rail route goes ahead, a report reveals today.
Council taxpayers would be forced to pay an extra £52 per year if plans to shake-up secondary education in Powys are scrapped, it was revealed today. Council taxpayers would be forced to pay an extra £52 per year if plans to shake-up secondary education in Powys are scrapped, it was revealed today. Campaigners have called for the plans, which could see some sixth forms closed and others merged, to be axed claiming they would not be viable and would not improve standards in education. But Powys County Council said the status quo could not be maintained due to cuts in funding from the Welsh Assembly. Gareth Jones, senior manager for the county council, said: "If people want to have the option of keeping schools as they are then savings will need to be made elsewhere, possibly from council tax. "It would mean that council tax for an average Band D property will be an extra £52 a year."
A Black Country army hero who suffered severe burns when his tank was petrol-bombed in Iraq is set to show he has taken the terrible injuries in his stride by running 52 marathons in a year.