Despite the route not going to plan, Mr Stokes has been contacted by Guinness World Records, who say it could still be possible to set a new record. He said: “We were scuppered by Storm Floris, as two ...

Aimee Betro, 45, denies being part of a failed assassination plot in which a person wearing a niqab fired a gun at a man in Birmingham.

In July 2024, the Manchester Evening News (MEN) published a video taken from CCTV of the incident, days after a mobile phone clip shared online showed a police officer kicking and stamping on a young ...

George And Mildred star Norman Eshley has died at the age of 80, his agent said. The actor and writer, who had been living with cancer, died on August 2 at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital with his wife ...

About 2,000 firefighters are fighting the blaze, which broke out in a village in the Aude region, a rural, wooded area that is also home to wineries.

A man who murdered a grandmother on her morning dog walk in a “vicious and brutal attack” while he was living off-grid to avoid recall to prison has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 ...

Doug Chalmers said it was ‘inappropriate for the government of the day to seek to guide the work of the independent electoral commission’.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has held talks with US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow, the Kremlin said, days before the White House’s deadline for Russia to reach a ...

A business director accused of dumping 27 tonnes of waste which blocked off access to homes and businesses on a country lane has denied all the allegations against him. Darren Sheen, 40, entered not ...

Irish president Michael D Higgins has welcomed the Princess Royal to his official residence in Dublin. Anne is visiting Aras an Uachtarain (official residence) in what has been described as “a ...

The motorist was handed a fine of 900 euros (£784), stripped of two points from his driver’s licence and banned from driving for three months.

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta maintains there is a “big belief” within his squad they can achieve their targets over the season ahead and called on the fans to help the players feel “invincible” at the ...