Six people were taken to hospital and 23 others treated for cuts and bruises following an accident on a ride at Alton Towers. It happened when the front carriages of the Runaway Mine Train became ...

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Former EastEnders actor Mike Reid, who played wheeler dealer Frank Butcher in the BBC soap, died at the age of 67. Reid was a real-life Londoner, born in Hackney, East London, in 1940. A few months ...

In the summer of 1940 as Germany seemed set to invade Britain, a secret army was created. Known as the Auxiliary Units, their aim was to wreak havoc behind enemy lines as the German invasion ...

Six men who killed a doorman and wounded three others when they tried to force their way into a nightclub have each been jailed for life. Ishfaq Ahmed, 24, was shot in the back as he attempted to stop ...

Cricket Tweets What are tweets? Desperately sad to learn of death of Rory Morrison (48) A familiar TMS Radio4 voice for many years. Lovely man @Aggerscricket 3 mins ago; When Fred ...

A quick phone call to arrange an order, a brief rendezvous in a shop where they greet each other like friends, followed by casual yet concealed exchange of drugs for money. Dealing carries stiffer ...

The terms "old" and "new" have been played around with in the cut and thrust of this election campaign but exactly how old are our current crop of political parties? The BBC's Elena Egawhary has taken ...

Heather Fell failed to overturn a 19-second deficit in the 3,000m run of the modern pentathlon but the Briton won silver behind German Lena Schoneborn. Fell began the final of the five events in ...

Liverpool lifted the clouds from their troubled season by beating Manchester United to win the Worthington Cup in Cardiff. Steven Gerrard's first half goal - deflected off David Beckham - proved ...

Stunned Belgians are starting to get a clearer picture of the Belgian woman identified as a suicide bomber killed in Iraq last month. La Derniere Heure newspaper published a photo of the woman it said ...

Tottenham cruised to an easy victory over Dinamo Bucharest to secure top spot in Uefa Cup Group B. Dimitar Berbatov netted on 16 minutes, lashing in from 20 yards after keeper Uladzimir Hayeu's poor ...