Angela Merkel was drowned out by hundreds of furious protesters during a hostile campaign rally last night, less than a month before the German elections. The German Chancellor had planned to speak to a crowd of up to 10,000 supporters at the central market square in Fulda yesterday. But a group […]
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GETTY Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel toured the UK four times Q – Can you tell me when Laurel and Hardy came to England on tour? Was it in the late 1940s or early 1950s? I saw them perform at the Embassy Theatre in Peterborough as a small boy. B […]
In a few hours’ time Conor McGregor will step into the ring for his first professional boxing match. If the experts have called it right he will exit a few minutes’ later rather the worse for wear, but up to £100 million richer. The 29-year-old Irishman from the wrong side […]
The AMC Hornet X starred in the legendary “astro spiral” bridge jump in the 1974 classic The Man with the Golden Gun. Sir Roger Moore’s suave spy is seen driving the car towards the remains of a collapsed bridge before corkscrewing over a river to keep pursuing the film’s villain […]
SG/Ken Amer/Orkney Photographic The journey between the Orkney islands is 1.7 miles and has been done in 69 seconds His time made it into the Guinness Book Of Records and from that day to this the route has been recognised as the world’s shortest scheduled flight. Alsop later trimmed 11 […]
GETTY Princess Diana had a sartorial taste in fashion When Lady Diana Spencer married the Prince of Wales on Wednesday July 29, 1981, I was 10 years old. I have vivid memories of sitting on the floor of our family home, mesmerised by the unfolding fairy tale on our television […]
South Korean military initally reported it as an unidentified projectile and said it travelled around 155miles (250km). A later statement from Seoul said North Korea had fired several short-range projectiles into the sea, with Japanese officials believing they may have been ballistic missiles. Kim Jong-un’s latest show of strength was […]
Jamie Paterson fired Bristol City in front on 60 minutes against a Villa side who had collected two wins and eight goals in league and cup earlier this week. But Onomah – on loan from Tottenham – benefited from a helpful deflection off Marlon Pack as his 25-yard effort looped […]