Ukraine’s president has visited the country’s frontline trenches as Russian TV warns that the two countries are ‘one step from war’. Russia is now thought to have massed more than 80,000 troops along Ukraine’s eastern border, with an arsenal of tanks, artillery, armoured transports and support vehicles – raising fears of an invasion. Ukrainian presidential spokesman … Read more
Ukraine’s president has visited the country’s frontline trenches as Russian TV warns that the two countries are ‘one step from war’. Russia is now thought to have massed more than 80,000 troops along Ukraine’s eastern border, with an arsenal of tanks, artillery, armoured transports and support vehicles – raising fears of an invasion. Ukrainian presidential spokesman … Read more
A desperate race against time is underway to find relatives of a First World War hero before his medals and ‘heartbreaking’ letters home from the trenches are auctioned off near Remembrance Sunday. More than 100 years after Sgt Sam Atherton wrote to his parents from France, the young soldier’s letters and medals were found stored … Read more
‘Market falls: is it time to pack up and go home?’ That was the stark question posed by a leading investment expert in response to Thursday’s 10.9 per cent fall in the FTSE 100 Index – the largest daily correction in the index since the Black Monday stock market crash of October 1987. (I remember … Read more