When Amie Lewis and Alex Timms found out they were expecting their first baby, they decided it was time to put their one-bedroom flat on the market. Things moved quickly and the couple had accepted an offer on the apartment in Hackney, East London, within a week. They had also …...Read More

Students are facing an academic year like no other, with thousands up and down the country already forced to self-isolate. Packed lecture halls are being replaced by Zoom calls as universities scramble to contain coronavirus cases. And with students paying up to £9,250 a year in tuition fees, universities are …...Read More

With investment guru Warren Buffett taking a stake in its biggest companies, Japan is back in the spotlight. Home to the likes of Sony and Toyota, Japan's stock market is worth a whopping five trillion dollars - making it the largest outside America. Despite that, the country isn't particularly popular …...Read More

One of the best things about Britain has always been its people’s healthy disregard for petty bureaucracy. Nothing seems to irk us quite so much as officious officialdom, rules for the sake of rules. We have a kind of innate horror of anyone who applies the letter of the law …...Read More

In the final part of our serialisation of his sensational new book, distinguished royal historian Robert Lacey charts the eventful courtship of William and Kate, from their happy university days to their traumatic break-up while she was working for Jigsaw — and how William finally decided he needed Kate, and …...Read More

A classic car mechanic suffered horrific 45 per cent burns after waiting two hours for an ambulance - despite his wife's pleas for help to arrive at an inferno at his workshop. Chris Williams-Ellis, 40, was working on a car at his home in Corwen, Denbighshire, last month, when it …...Read More

British motorcycling champion Sean Emmett saw his new bride 'flip out' of their Dubai hotel window while looking for her lost wedding ring, his brother told an inquest into her death. Jason Emmett, told Surrey coroner's court how his brother Sean had called him hours after his wife Abbie Elson, …...Read More

A cyclist who was 'pushed and punched' by a furious road-rage driver was handed a written warning for swearing - while his attacker escaped punishment-free. David Brennan, 47, was given a written warning for Breach of the Peace from Police Scotland for shouting expletives at a driver who swung a …...Read More

Thousands of people living in East London are without tap water after a 42-inch pipe burst, sending residents rushing to supermarkets to buy bottle supplies. The problem was first reported on Tuesday afternoon at around 4.30pm but it was not until nearly midnight that Thames Water discovered the cause of …...Read More

Two ISIS fighters in detention overseas, who are known as one half of the 'Beatles' terror group, will be transferred to US custody in the coming days to be held for murdering American hostages in Syria and Iraq. Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh are both British but they renounced …...Read More