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Royal Mail today launches its Dinosaur Special Stamps issue to mark over 200 years of dinosaur fossil discoveries in what was the UK.

Dinosaurs have often been associated with North America and the exploration of the Wild West that began in the 1870s, but the earliest discoveries of dinosaurs and their contemporary marine and flying reptiles happened in England during the early 1800s.

The dinosaurs in this 10-stamp set have strong connections with Dorset and pioneering fossil hunter Mary Anning, the Isle of Wight, Oxfordshire, Surrey and Sussex. The set features...

Forty leading charities, organisations and academics have written to the House of Lords calling on them to seize their once-in-a-generation opportunity to change the lives of thousands of vulnerable young people this week, as they discuss an amendment to the Children and Families Bill that would allow care leavers in England to stay with their foster families to the age of 21. Currently most young people are forced to leave their foster homes at the age of 17, unless they are one of the lucky ones supported by their local authority or their foster carer can fund them to stay out of their...

Today (7 October) the National Crime Agency has been launched to lead the UK's fight to cut serious and organised crime.

The new law enforcement agency is intended to transform the UK's response to the threat from serious and organised crime.

The NCA will use its 4,000-plus officers to harness the expertise and resources of law enforcement across the UK and abroad, to ensure a consistent and co-ordinated approach to continuously disrupt the most serious criminals and groups.

The agency will ensure that such criminals and criminal groups are prioritised and that...

Family-owned independent developer C G Fry & Son, renowned for their part in the prestigious Poundbury development with The Duchy of Cornwall, helped to raise over £400 for Macmillan Cancer Support as part of 'The World's Biggest Coffee Morning'. The staff at the Dorchester-based Head Office together with colleagues from various sales offices around the South West region joined forces to help this worthy cause.

Local residents from the adjoining C G Fry development, Old Kelways at Huish Episcopi joined staff members to raise money with donations in the newly opened Show Home at...