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The three-time London Marathon winner was awarded her medal by the Prince of Wales at an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle on Tuesday as she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to…
Read our privacy notice . Convicted rapist Russell Brand is facing up to 10 years behind bars in a London prison condemned as “unsafe, squalid and overcrowded”. The 51-year-old is understood to have been locked up at…
Had it crashed, the patient would have died, the court heard. Leese eventually stopped at a petrol station on the A34 in Newcastle-under-Lyme and fled but was found hiding nearby by a police sniffer dog. The 32-year-old…
Join today Already a member? Log in Pupils at Edinburgh Academy suffered “dreadful abuse” over 40 years while the school ignored numerous complaints and focused on protecting its reputation, the Scottish Child Abuse…
On Monday, the French authorities blamed Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for the string of hacks, which foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot said were "unprecedented" in terms of their scale and "level of…
However it will not include the sort of price controls applied to the gas and electricity markets. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) investigated the heating oil market in Northern Ireland and other parts of…
The local Conservative council have proposed closing Bishop Stopford’s School , Starks Field Primary School and Suffolks Primary School in north London, claiming reduced pupil numbers are making them financially…
Up to 500 people gathered outside The Bell Hotel after a migrant living there, Hadush Kebatu, was charged with – and later jailed for – sex offences. Silk, of Torrington Drive, Loughton, was sentenced at Chelmsford Crown…
Charred wood has been recovered at the Durupınar Formation in eastern Turkey – an approximately 515ft-long, boat-shaped formation near the Mountains of Ararat. The site has long been believed to be the final resting…
After serving as a Resistance courier from 1941, three years later she founded the Pas-de-Boeuf network near the town of Ruillé-sur-Loir. With some 30 men under her orders, she organised sabotage operations, sheltered…