WWII pilot’s daughter takes to the skies in Hurricane he flew to defend Britain

WWII pilot’s daughter takes to the skies in Hurricane he flew to defend Britain in WWII to honour his memory and his ‘mates who didn’t come back’ Eugenie Brooks, 55, flew her father John’s Hawker Hurricane over RAF Manston  John flew the plane with the 174 (Mauritius) squadron during Second World War Fighter pilot also … Read more

Edwardian family’s holiday pictures of Morocco, Algiers, Tunisia and Algeria go up for auction

A huge photograph album charting an Edwardian family’s holiday to the Middle East that could rival the Instagram holiday-makers of today has emerged 112 years later. The vast album contains 500 photographs and postcards that were taken by the snap-happy Bowen family. The husband, wife and their two grown-up daughters were prolific photographers and captured … Read more

Edwardian family’s holiday pictures of Morocco, Algiers, Tunisia and Algeria go up for auction

A huge photograph album charting an Edwardian family’s holiday to the Middle East that could rival the Instagram holiday-makers of today has emerged 112 years later. The vast album contains 500 photographs and postcards that were taken by the snap-happy Bowen family. The husband, wife and their two grown-up daughters were prolific photographers and captured … Read more

Gruesome Halloween display prompts multiple police visits

Panicked cops show up at Texas man’s Halloween house of horrors after reports of a man killed by a chainsaw, a wheelbarrow full of severed limbs and a body bag dumped on the blood-soaked lawn Artist Steven Novak created the gruesome crime scene using fake blood The masterpiece features a man killed by a chainsaw and … Read more

It’s for you! Baby’s hilarious reaction when the phone she is playing with suddenly rings 

It’s for you! Baby’s hilarious reaction when the phone she is playing with suddenly rings Schuyler-Mai Walsh, 11 months, was playing with parents phone on October 21  Phone suddenly rings, startling the baby in video filmed in Enniscorthy, Ireland The wide-eyed little girl drops the phone as the room erupts in laughter By Nicole Conner … Read more

Meghan Markle bids to postpone High Court privacy trial

Meghan Markle bids to postpone her High Court privacy action trial over letter to her estranged father Thomas published by the Mail On Sunday Duchess of Sussex is suing Associated Newspapers Ltd over August 2018 article MoS reproduced parts of handwritten letter sent to 76-year-old Thomas Markle Hearing to consider costs and case management issues … Read more

Europe coronavirus: Protests as continent considers second full lockdown

Protesters have taken to the streets in Spain and Italy again to vent their fury at new coronavirus restrictions as Europe teeters on the brink of a second full lockdown. Fireworks were thrown into the path of cars in Seville overnight with wheelie bins set on fire before police were called to shut down the … Read more

City worker, 44, accused of shaking four-week-old daughter to death

A City worker accused of murdering her four-week-old baby claims she found her daughter’s lifeless body after her lover had fed her, a court heard today. Clare Sanders, 44, and her Lithuanian boyfriend Tomas Vaitkevicius, 45, allegedly shook Eva on three separate occasions. Sanders said she found Eva looking ‘lifeless’ beneath her blanket in her … Read more

John Lewis in Kingston is evacuated over a bomb threat

John Lewis in Kingston is evacuated over a bomb threat as police seal off streets outside Shoppers were rushed out of John Lewis store in Kingston following bomb threat Metropolitan Police have closed Kingston Bridge after ‘security alert’ at 10am Incident at Bentall Centre department store is not believed to be ‘terror-related’ ***Did you see what happened? … Read more

Man Utd star Brandon Williams denies rumours ‘spread by fake app’ that he text girl

Man Utd star Brandon Williams, 20, strongly denies online rumours ‘spread by a fake app’ that he text girl, 15, on social media – as trolls target his Wikipedia page Social media allegations concern Manchester United defender Brandon Williams Tweets thought to be from a fake app allege he ‘messaged a 15-year-old girl’  The club … Read more