A serial killer’s ex wife has been sentenced to life in prison for her complicity in two murders and a kidnap. Monique Olivier, 75, was on trial in France for her part in the rape and murder of two young women, 20-year-old Joanna Parrish, from Gloucestershire, and 18-year-old Marie-Angèle Domèce. Olivier was also accused of…
Many of us enjoy taking souvenirs home from our holidays, but when you are the world’s richest man the souvenirs can be much bigger. In the 1920s Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, was besotted with the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, and decided that he wanted to own a piece of it. “He loved…
An ex-UK intelligence worker has pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of a US government employee who worked at a British base with him. Joshua Bowles, 29, pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of the woman who was only referred to in court as 99230. The incident happened some three miles from GCHQ’s Cheltenham base,…
The son of model Katie Price has set a Guinness World Record for the longest drawing of a train. Harvey Price, 21, who has autism, lives at the National Star College, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire and started drawing the 21.3 metre-long picture of a Thameslink train last month. Mr Price also has Prader-Willi syndrome, septo-optic dysplasia…