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BBC News
12-05-2025
- BBC News
Two men arrested after gun reportedly fired in Rotherham
Two men have been arrested after a gun was reportedly fired in Yorkshire Police said armed officers attended Highfield Park, Maltby, at about 22:45 BST on Sunday. A gunshot was reported an hour later on nearby Hayhurst Crescent, the force said, with no reported injuries. A 23-year-old was arrested for firearms and Class A drug possession offences, with a 35-year-old held on suspicion of possessing firearms with intent. The force said officers would carry out high-visibility patrols in the area in the coming days. Listen to highlights from South Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
'It's important these graves are visited'
"I think it's really important that all of these graves are visited and that people know their stories." That's what Megan Maltby of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission told Radio Surrey about the largest war cemetery in Britain. Brookwood Military Cemetery, which covers a 37-acre site near Woking, is home to 1,601 burials for people who died in World War One and 3,476 for people who died in World War Two. The nationalities of people laid to rest at the Surrey site include Commonwealth countries, wartime allies, as well as Germans and Italians. The land began as a civilian cemetery in the 19th Century but expanded into a military cemetery after WW1 broke out. One of the youngest people known to be buried at the site is South African soldier Thomas Knowles, who Ms Maltby said is believed to be "part of a musical band that was travelling with the South African army". The 15-year-old died of influenza "like so many others in 1918", she said. Brookwood Military Cemetery is also the resting place of 27 Indian soldiers, whose graves were moved from a different cemetery nearby in 1968 after vandalism incidents. Among the names commemorated on the Brookwood 1939-1945 Memorial is Anglo-French spy Violette Szabo, who worked on behalf of the UK's Special Operations Executive in WW2. The Allies trained Szabo as a field agent and sent her to France during its occupation to feed back useful information. Ms Maltby said: "She was with some resistance fighters at the time they were stopped by a German patrol. "She was captured by the Germans, she was interrogated, she was tortured, she was sadly put to death at a concentration camp." Szabo is one of only four women to be awarded the George Cross after she was posthumously given the gallantry medal. Virginia McKenna portrayed the spy, who married a member of the French Resistance, in 1958 film Carve Her Name with Pride. Follow BBC Surrey on Facebook, on X, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@ or WhatsApp us on 08081 002250. Spy medals 'should stay in UK' More than 70 WW1 names added to memorial 'An affront to those who served' Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
'It's important these graves are visited'
"I think it's really important that all of these graves are visited and that people know their stories." That's what Megan Maltby of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission told Radio Surrey about the largest war cemetery in Britain. Brookwood Military Cemetery, which covers a 37-acre site near Woking, is home to 1,601 burials for people who died in World War One and 3,476 for people who died in World War Two. The nationalities of people laid to rest at the Surrey site include Commonwealth countries, wartime allies, as well as Germans and Italians. The land began as a civilian cemetery in the 19th Century but expanded into a military cemetery after WW1 broke out. One of the youngest people known to be buried at the site is South African soldier Thomas Knowles, who Ms Maltby said is believed to be "part of a musical band that was travelling with the South African army". The 15-year-old died of influenza "like so many others in 1918", she said. Brookwood Military Cemetery is also the resting place of 27 Indian soldiers, whose graves were moved from a different cemetery nearby in 1968 after vandalism incidents. Among the names commemorated on the Brookwood 1939-1945 Memorial is Anglo-French spy Violette Szabo, who worked on behalf of the UK's Special Operations Executive in WW2. The Allies trained Szabo as a field agent and sent her to France during its occupation to feed back useful information. Ms Maltby said: "She was with some resistance fighters at the time they were stopped by a German patrol. "She was captured by the Germans, she was interrogated, she was tortured, she was sadly put to death at a concentration camp." Szabo is one of only four women to be awarded the George Cross after she was posthumously given the gallantry medal. Virginia McKenna portrayed the spy, who married a member of the French Resistance, in 1958 film Carve Her Name with Pride. Follow BBC Surrey on Facebook, on X, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@ or WhatsApp us on 08081 002250. Spy medals 'should stay in UK' More than 70 WW1 names added to memorial 'An affront to those who served' Commonwealth War Graves Commission
