Paul Foot was a pioneering investigative journalist, whose campaigning style went hand-in-hand with a deeply-held belief in socialism. Shrewsbury School in the Fifties must have been one heck of a ...

Premiership footballer Lee Hughes has been jailed for six years for causing death by dangerous driving. The 28-year-old West Bromwich Albion striker had denied causing the death of father-of-four ...

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 ...

She was lover of the Prince of Wales - a strong influence on him and a humiliation for his wife. And she was Camilla Parker Bowles's great-grandmother. Alice Keppel had the "sexual morals of an alley ...

Ayr United are poised to sell their Somerset Park stadium and replace it with an £18m, 7,650-seat replacement in the town's Heathfield district. The Second Division club have secured a 20 acre site in ...

David Stocker's death from salt poisoning was sudden and unexpected. The nine-year-old had spent seven months suffering from a mystery illness that baffled doctors at both his local hospital in ...

Snooker star Jimmy White is changing his name to James Brown, as part of a madcap sponsorship deal. The Whirlwind decided on his new moniker following news that the brown ball in all major tournaments ...

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 ...

Brian Clough was a controversial, larger-than-life figure and one of the last football managers to rule his club without consulting his chairman or his shareholders. Leading his teams to two League ...

Referee Horacio Elizondo, who sent off England striker Wayne Rooney against Portugal, will take charge of the World Cup final between Italy and France. German Markus Merk and Slovakian Lubos Michel ...

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 ...