Venus is now at its almost unbelievably brightest at a marvelous time when many other (though less radiant) planets and ...

A petition calling for the junction's zebra crossing and roundabout to be re-painted to "reduce the risk of a serious accident" was presented to the authority at a meeting. BBC Radio Berkshire's ...

On April 16, 1874, wilderness guide Alfred Packer arrived at the Los Pinos Indian Agency near Gunnison, Colorado, starving, freezing, and, most notably, alone. The five men Packer had been traveling ...

Roger Ebert didn’t start writing reviews professionally until the late 1960s, long after Alfred Hitchcock reached the peak of his career, but the famed film critic returned to the director’s work on ...

Has a habit of stopping his feet on contact. 'Strong as an ox' is a phrase that comes to mind when describing Alfred Collins' game. He has good size, length and strength to be an effective run ...

Having temporarily filled the role following Lord Hopetoun’s sudden resignation in 1902, Hallam Tennyson ... admitted to the Bar, he never practised law, becoming instead his father’s secretary, ...

Former Lord Chancellor Alex Chalk KC has left the self-employed Bar to become a partner in the London office of US law firm Jones Day. Last month, Mr Chalk became what is thought to be the first ...

The ancient red awning of the Boiler Room, the gay bar that occupied the space for more than three decades, was intact. One thing struck me as odd. The awning, the same one I swore had always been ...

“Sad and angry tonight,” he wrote on Facebook. “She’s a discarded corpse on Tennyson beach. Caught and landed, where the tail spine was cut off as souvenir (fresh wound) and left dea ...