Walter Tull’s father, Daniel, was from Barbados but emigrated to Britain as a 20-year-old in 1876. He found work as a carpenter and married a local girl, Alice Palmer, four years later, before having Walter and his brother Edward. His mother tragically died of cancer when Walter was just seven years old and his father … Read more
How the Mail solved mystery of Sir Richard Branson’s stolen family photo: Memento taken in raid at tycoon’s children’s 200-acre estate are found in a house in Romania The Virgin tycoon thanked the Mail for tracking down the family’s mementos Detectives hope to reunite the family with the valuables stolen from their estate Detectives are … Read more
Swedish police have named the man they say fatally shot Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986, but have closed the case without charge because the suspect is dead. Stig Engström, a graphic designer, is the man responsible for killing Palme as he left a cinema in central Stockholm with his wife on the night of … Read more
Fans freaked out on Saturday when they noticed what looked like a terrified man hiding in the background of Jennifer Lopez’s Instagram gym selfie. But the real story behind the bizarre image is not one of the horror movie scenarios people were speculating about on social media, according to an E! News source on Wednesday. … Read more
In 2002 Isambard Kingdom Brunel was voted as Britain’s second best person after William Churchill in a BBC poll In 2002 Isambard Kingdom Brunel was voted as Britain’s second best person after William Churchill in a BBC poll. The engineer was born on April 9, 1803, in Portsmouth. His father was a French engineer who … Read more
Eighteen Amish children – who mysteriously died over the course of 15 years – had all inherited a faulty gene from the same ancestor, a new report has found. Mutation of the RYR2 gene found in the heart muscle caused the organ to suddenly stop in the otherwise healthy boys and girls who were running about … Read more