Six local news stories you may have missed this week

Yahoo News rounds up some fantastic local stories you may have missed from around the UK this week.

Ross McGuinness
Updated ·3-min read

A 20-year-old whose six-year recovery from life-changing bus crash injuries is one of the uplifting stories leading our weekly local news round-up.

Nicky Newbon has made a significant step in his rehabilitation in an inspiring story published by Yorkshire Live this week. Elsewhere, there was a sad goodbye to a record-breaking pensioner in Liverpool... and a Nottinghamshire football club going global thanks to its unique shelter stand for away fans.

You can read the full version of each of our selected articles through the links under each story – or read more top headlines from around the UK's regions on the Yahoo UK local news page.

Nicky Newbon suffered life-changing injuries when a drug driver hit a bus he was getting off (Yorkshire Live/Irwin Mitchell)
Nicky Newbon suffered life-changing injuries when a drug driver hit a bus he was getting off (Yorkshire Live/Irwin Mitchell)

A young man who suffered life-changing injuries when a drug driver hit a bus has reached some major milestones in his recovery.

Nicky Newbon was left with serious injuries when a lorry crashed into the bus he and his friend were getting off. He was 14 at the time.

Nicky was airlifted to hospital and diagnosed with a head injury, fractured knee and broken collar bone, as well as nerve damage and facial scarring. He remained in hospital for 10 days.

Photo issued by Guinness World Records of John Tinniswood, the world's oldest living man, who has died at the age of 112. (PA)
Photo issued by Guinness World Records of John Tinniswood, the world's oldest living man, who has died at the age of 112. (PA)

The world's oldest man, John Tinniswood, has passed away at the age of 112 in his care home in Merseyside.

Born in Liverpool on August 26, 1912, he claimed the title of the world's oldest living man in April this year. He died peacefully on Monday at his care home in Southport, where he was "surrounded by music and love".

Liam Bush cleans the trolly park shelter at Teversal FC, near Sutton-in-Ashfield. (SWNS)
Liam Bush cleans the trolly park shelter at Teversal FC, near Sutton-in-Ashfield. (SWNS)

A non-league football club has won over an army of online fans thanks their unusual away end - made of old Tesco trolley shelters.

Teversal FC, based near Sutton-in-Ashfield, has housed supporters in the supermarket-inspired shelters for around 20 years.

But it has recently taken social media by storm as online wags joked: "If the ground isn't called Trolley Park, they're missing a trick" and "Is it £1 to get in?"

A DWP worker says she resigned after being pulled into disciplinary meetings and threatened with dismissal - because she shared Reform party posts on Facebook.

Michelle Cochrane, 45, had been working as an administration officer in the pensions department at DWP since July 2021 and loved it.

But the civil servant, from Blyth, Northumberland, held different views to the government regarding immigration and how taxes are spent.

A mum was left shocked after her sore finger turned out to be a rare cancer.

Peppie Scobbie was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), a rare type of white blood cell cancer, after noticing the pain in her hand.

The 53-year-old, from Larkhall, had felt healthy despite being tired and noticing bruising, but her daughter insisted she go to her GP.

A pet gerbil was given oxygen from firefighters after a house fire broke out in a Suffolk town.

Firefighters were called to a house blaze in Tollgate Lane in Bury St Edmunds at about 3.15am on Tuesday.

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