A blue plaque celebrating the life of the Great Western Railway's first locomotive driver has been unveiled in Swindon. James 'Jim' Hurst, was appointed as the GWR's first locomotive shunter in 1837 ...

A teacher who opened Guernsey's first school for disabled children will be honoured with a blue plaque. Jessie de Garis founded the Floraville School in 1948, in a terraced house next to Vauvert ...

A Co Antrim woman who became the first female professor of medicine in Britain and Ireland is to be commemorated with an Ulster History Circle Blue Plaque at Ballycastle Presbyterian Church.

The plaque has been placed on the last house James ... before he met fellow railway pioneer Sir Daniel Gooch. He subsequently followed Gooch south before being appointed as a locomotive shunter ...