National World YourWorld Top Stories 7 May, 2025

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00:00This is your world. Top stories for Wednesday the 7th of May, 2025.

00:07Brought to you by National World.

00:11Feigal McCormack wins 2025 Outstanding Contribution to Accountancy Award.

00:17Business leader Feigal McCormack has been recognised for his contribution to the accountancy profession.

00:25Gosport Little Ship rescues 67 soldiers from Dunkirk.

00:29It's a long way to Dunkirk from Royal Clarence Yard via Ramsgate and Calais with the little ships,

00:35but that is what HMS Motor Lighter X209 did, and was the only one from the Gosport Yard to do so in June 1940.

00:45Gosport-dispensing optician Barbara Kemp went to a local talk covering this wartime feat,

00:51and her husband Alan realised his grandfather, Jack Kemp, was the mate on this lighter.

00:57Barbara decided to create something to commemorate the rescue of 67 British, French and Belgian soldiers to Ramsgate

01:06before they returned to Royal Clarence Yard in Gosport.

01:12Police begin town centre crime crackdown.

01:15Police in Rotherham have begun their crackdown on town centre crime.

01:18Popular Leeds convenience stores launch 30-minute grocery delivery with Snappy Shopper.

01:26Customers can get £10 off their first order as Barry's Holton Moor and Taylor's Food Store join the app.

01:33New local plan shaping the future of any Derbyshire.

01:39North East Derbyshire District Council are giving residents of North East Derbyshire the opportunity to shape their district

01:45by having a say on the local plan to guide the development of North East Derbyshire for the next 20 years.

01:5120 Nostalgic Old Balmoral Show Photographs from the Farming Life Archives

01:59These photographs are all from the Balmoral Show, from the years 2007, 2008 and 2009 archives.

02:10McBean takes five for Bucks Women in Sussex Sharks' defeat.

02:13A five-wicket haul for Natasha McBean, 5-17, was unfortunately not enough as Bucks Women's first Tikwin

02:22fell to a spirited 46-run defeat against Sussex Sharks' women in the Vitality T20 Women's County Cup match

02:30on bank holiday Monday.

02:34Tragic coincidence leads to memorial plaque for RAF Coningsby Pilot.

02:38A tragic coincidence is to lead to the poignant unveiling of a second memorial plaque

02:44in a village between Horncastle and Louth.

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