The date had long been circled in Harry Kane’s diary. In the middle of an unrelenting summer, June 23 offered the opportunity to draw breath and England’s captain had a plan for how he and his team-mates could unwind. So, at the beginning of April, Kane phoned a friend to see if he could help. … Read more
Poet Roger McGough pens a tribute to the Mail’s Great British Spring Clean heroes… with a verse that imagines Admiral Lord Nelson coming down from his Trafalgar Square column to help wage war on rubbish Poet and broadcaster Roger McGough, 83, wrote verse for nation’s litter pickers He is a fan of Mail-backed Great British … Read more
Buried alive, shot at from planes, homes turned to rubble… Eighty years after Britain’s worst-ever bombardment, Kate Thompson salutes the bravery of the women who lived through it
One of France’s last surviving D-Day commandos who was among the first troops to land in Normandy dies aged 106 Hubert Faure was one of 177 French-led commandos who land in Normandy By the end of June 6, 1944, ten of the men led by Lt Philippe Kieffer were dead They achieved their objective of … Read more
London in the depths of the first lockdown. Hunched over a laptop in her home, in one of the capital’s most chic neighbourhoods, a well-groomed woman haggles with high-powered American executives. For them, five time zones away, it is the still early evening; for her the dead of night. The deal is so sensitive that … Read more
London in the depths of the first lockdown. Hunched over a laptop in her home, in one of the capital’s most chic neighbourhoods, a well-groomed woman haggles with high-powered American executives. For them, five time zones away, it is the still early evening; for her the dead of night. The deal is so sensitive that … Read more
Hero soldiers who died serving their country will no longer have streets named after them in a Welsh county after the council decided ‘times and attitudes change’ and individuals can later ‘prove divisive’. Denbighshire County Council ruled it would now no longer allow the honour after a meeting, which appeared to reference the Black Lives … Read more
Jeremy Mayhew, member of City of London’s governing body, told staff at the Barbican not to ‘feel too sorry’ for themselves There’s a widely held belief in the modern world that we have a human right to feel sorry for ourselves, and that particularly during the pandemic we should be allowed to let rip. So … Read more
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: A forensic look at the real-life CSI heroes who bring killers to book By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail Published: 01:52 GMT, 10 February 2021 | Updated: 01:52 GMT, 10 February 2021 Forensics: The Real CSI Rating: Secret Safari: Into The Wild Rating: The things we did for … Read more
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: A forensic look at the real-life CSI heroes who bring killers to book By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail Published: 01:52 GMT, 10 February 2021 | Updated: 01:52 GMT, 10 February 2021 Forensics: The Real CSI Rating: Secret Safari: Into The Wild Rating: The things we did for … Read more