10 h. ago Most Brits don't even know if they had a relative who was a First World War hero

As Britain comes together to honour those who fell during World War One, it has been revealed that many Brits are completely unaware they may have their own connection to the war

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61 h. ago Sex offender freed to fight in Ukraine shot after 'killing homeowner and raping wife'

Alexey Kostrikin had been hailed as a "war hero" in Russia, but soon deserted the frontline and resorted to a campaign of murder and rape against citizens of his own country

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3 d. ago Mediocre movies, millions in taxpayer cash: how scores of films from low

Creative industries are ‘crucial to the economy’ but film-making and tax have long had an uneasy relationship in BritainOnly the most geeky of movie buffs will have heard of him but Alan Latham is one of the UK’s most prolific film producers.Credited on 81 releases dating back to 1996, according to the online film bible IMDb.com, Latham has been behind a string of barely known films fronted by much better known actors. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Royal British Legion support helps traumatised war hero realise his own bravery

Army veteran Warren Howell has finally taken his medals from his drawer after PTSD left him too traumatised to look at them. The Royal British Legion helped him make the change

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3 d. ago Probation officer in court charged with having ‘romantic’ relationship with prisoner at Britain’s most secure jail

A PROBATION officer has appeared in court charged with having a "romantic" relationship with a prisoner at Britain's most secure jail. Bethany Dent-Reynolds is accused of engaging in an inappropriate tryst with Kieran Robinson at HMP Belmarsh in South East London. The 27-year-old also allegedly tried to access prison computer records to "secure unauthorised access...

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5 d. ago Single Brits have been enjoying 'try out season' before settling down for winter

Three in 10 singletons have been enjoying 'Try Out Season' – dating around before settling down with someone for the winter.

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5 d. ago Sole Air India crash survivor describes survival in deadly disaster as 'miracle'

The crash in the Indian city of Ahmedabad killed 241 people - but Briton Vishwash Kumar Ramesh walked away relatively unharmed

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6 d. ago Russell Crowe, 61, reveals why he will never marry girlfriend Britney Theriot, 33, amid engagement rumours

Russell Crowe opened up about his relationship with his much younger girlfriend, Britney Theriot, on Sunday's 60 Minutes.

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6 d. ago Hero Huntingdon train driver is Royal Navy & Iraq War veteran who is ‘shaken up’ after saving lives with quick thinking

THE heroic Huntingdon train driver who is "shaken up" after saving lives with his quick thinking is a Royal Navy and Iraq War veteran. Andrew Johnson, from Peterborough, made the emergency stop at Huntingdon station just minutes after being alerted to the stabbing rampage. His quick thinking allowed armed police to respond and saved lives,...

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6 d. ago Revealed: Hero Huntingdon train driver who saved lives with quick

Andrew Johnson, of Peterborough, rapidly diverted the London-bound train to Huntingdon station after being alerted to the mass stabbing, enabling emergency services to act fast.

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6 d. ago Russell Crowe reveals why he will NEVER marry girlfriend Britney Theriot as he denies engagement rumours

Russell Crowe opened up about his relationship with his much younger girlfriend, Britney Theriot, on Sunday's 60 Minutes.

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6 d. ago He told the world what was happening in El Fasher. Then they sought him out. How Sudan lost ‘a true hero of the war’

For months, Mohamed Khamis Douda shared accounts of what life was like under siege. He was killed when RSF fighters finally took the Darfur city, raising fears activists and civil society figures are being hunted downFor months, militiamen on the perimeters of El Fasher have asked those few who managed to escape the besieged Sudanese city whether Mohamed Khamis Douda was still inside. They shared videos threatening to kill him, which, as they hoped, made their way to the activist.Even as the hunger and fear of living under siege and bombardment made him desperate to leave, Douda remained inside El Fasher, constantly working to let the outside world know what was happening to the people there. Then, on Sunday 26 October, Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces overran the city and it was too late. His friends and family have confirmed to the Guardian that Douda has been killed.Monday 4 AugustI awake each morning tired from the efforts of the previous day. Our first struggle is the ...

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7 d. ago Story of how a Glasgow botanist almost marooned in Amazon was saved by war hero cruise ship captain

Romance blossomed when he traced her and she was safely back aboard

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8 d. ago The Guardian view on Andrew’s downfall: Britain’s relationship with the royals needs a reset | Editorial

The former prince’s retirement from public life is welcome. Problems around royal secrecy and entitlement remain to be tackledPrince Andrew is no more. Henceforth the king’s younger brother will be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. With the Thursday night announcement, and the news that Mr Mountbatten Windsor will quit his 30-room home in Windsor, the monarch hopes to draw a line under the shame of the former prince’s friendship with the dead sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and alleged sexual assault of Virginia Giuffre when she was 17, which he has always denied.These “censures” – as Buckingham Palace termed them – were made necessary by Mr Mountbatten Windsor’s poor judgment and deceit, including the lie that he had broken off contact with Epstein in 2010. But the real damage was done by his grotesquely entitled behaviour and appalling choice of friends. It should not have taken the painful details in Ms Giuffre’s posthumous memoir, an extract of which was pub...

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9 d. ago What would you do if democracy was being dismantled before your eyes? Whatever you’re doing right now | Andy Beckett

In California, daily life under Trump is marked by sporadic resistance and avoidance. Neither will defeat the autocratsHow would you behave if your democracy was being dismantled? In most western countries, that used to be an academic question. Societies where this process had happened, such as Germany in the 1930s, seemed increasingly distant. The contrasting ways that people reacted to authoritarianism and autocracy, both politically and in their everyday lives, while darkly fascinating and important to study and remember, seemed of diminishing relevance to now.Not any more. Illiberal populism has spread across the world, either challenging for power or entrenching itself in office, from Argentina to Italy, France to Indonesia, Hungary to Britain. But probably the most significant example of a relatively free, pluralist society and political system turning into something very different remains the US, now nine months into Donald Trump’s second term.Andy Beckett is a Guardian colum...

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1 week ago Blue Has No Borders review – hunt for British identity in British seaside town maps the national psyche

Director Jessi Gutch shadows seven Folkestonians from a Syrian refugee, to a drag artist and a Brexiter‘Make invisible people visible,” reads a banner at Folkestone Pride in this woolly docu-hunt for that most mythical of beasts: British identity. Among many other elements, fretting about invisibility seems to be a recently acquired national trait. Virtually every group featured here, from the LGBTQ+ crowd, to uprooted Syrian refugees to local fishers and diehard Brexiters, complains of being overlooked, neglected or misunderstood in some way.Director Jessi Gutch shadows seven Folkestonians, the better to map the faultlines in the national psyche: Syrian exile Heba, not quite as fully integrated into UK culture as her younger brother and sister; barber and Only Fools and Horses proselytiser Nathan, who holds a torch for the British working class; black artist Josie, whose work explores the relationship between land and identity; Dan, the son of a fisher who as drag performer Dita ad...

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2 w. ago British army veteran known as Soldier F not guilty of Bloody Sunday murders

Soldier F was on trial in relation to events in Derry in 1972 when Parachute regiment shot dead 13 civil rights protestersA British army veteran has been found not guilty of murder in relation to Bloody Sunday, when the Parachute regiment shot dead 13 civil rights protesters in Derry in 1972.Soldier F was on trial for two murders and five attempted murders during a defining event of Northern Ireland’s Troubles. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago British grandmother who has spent 12 years on death row in Indonesia is to be sent back to the UK

Indonesia will sign an agreement on Tuesday to repatriate two British nationals, including a grandmother, languishing on death row for drug-related crimes

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3 w. ago Britney Spears' ex Kevin Federline claims she 'never really got over’ Justin Timberlake

Pop icons Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake were previously in a relationship in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but it's been claimed she "never really got over" him

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3 w. ago Double amputee Afghan war veteran, dubbed 'real hero' by Prince Harry, is subjected to vile racist abuse outside Tesco

Former Royal Marine Commando Ben McBean faced a barrage of vile insults after visiting the supermarket for chocolate and beer.

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