Golf legend John Daly facing his greatest battle after being diagnosed with bladder cancer

It's the kind of news that cuts across sporting boundaries. A bulletin guaranteed to provoke sadness and sympathy far beyond the buttoned-down world of members’ lounges and captain’s fourballs. John Daly has spent the best part of three decades entertaining the public — golf fans and philistines alike — and …...Read More

Drinkers hit bars and pubs across the country for one more weekend of freedom

Advertisement Drinkers flocked to pubs and bars across Britain last night for a final weekend of freedom before the Government's tough new 'rule of six' comes into force next week. Revellers gathered in busy beer gardens in London, Manchester and Nottingham en masse on Friday ahead of the tightening of …...Read More

Boris Johnson accuses the EU of trying to break up the 'territorial integrity' of the UK

Boris Johnson is accusing the EU of trying to destroy the 'territorial integrity' of the UK with a 'blockade' in the Irish Sea as he attempts to tear up his Brexit deal. The Prime Minister said that Brussels could 'carve up our country' and 'seriously endanger peace and stability' in …...Read More

GUY ADAMS: National Trust launches a national witch-hunt

Richard Tollemache is the scion of a landowning dynasty that presides over almost 18,000 acres of Lincolnshire which lie around a neo-Georgian stately pile called Buckminster Park. He is the son of Sir Lyonel, the seventh baronet, and his family estate includes a vast portfolio of farmland and forest, plus …...Read More

JOHN HUMPHRYS: We'll need more nuclear weapons to fight the greatest war of all

John Watson, then a Tory MP, knew he had a bit of a battle on his hands. He was addressing his audience about the benefits of nuclear power. Not an easy case to make with so many coal miners filling the chairs in front of him. But he felt pretty …...Read More

CEO who beat puppy says he's sorry and has given Bici to a loving family

The CEO who was caught on camera viciously beating his four-month-old puppy has apologizes for losing his temper and taking 'unreasonable and unjustifiable action' as his brother has defended him and insisted he was simply disciplining the pooch for peeing on a rug. Jeffrey Previte, 46, was slammed this week …...Read More

Heart rate measuring can help spot depression as it beats faster, study finds

Measuring a person's heart rate could be a way of spotting if they are suffering from depression. Depressed people's hearts beat an extra ten to 15 times per minute on average during the daytime, a study has found. Their heart rates fell at night – which is normal as we …...Read More

GCSE pupils are told they WILL have to study poetry after all

Teachers reacted angrily yesterday after being told their GCSE pupils will have to study poetry after all. They accused the country’s largest exam board, AQA, of giving in to ‘demands of some celebrity poets’ by making the topic compulsory in next year’s exams. Last month exam regulator Ofqual said that …...Read More

PLATELL's PEOPLE: Regal Diana Rigg taught us that we ARE the feistier sex

For men of a certain age everywhere, Diana Rigg's death will have come as a body blow. But millions of us women, too, are reeling from the loss of a superstar we worshipped and emulated. When I was a young girl in the Sixties watching The Avengers on our black …...Read More

PIC EXC: Jude Law is VERY animated at son Rudy's 18th birthday party

Jude Law celebrated his son Rudy's 18th birthday on Thursday with a raucous party alongside wife Phillipa Coan, ex Sadie Frost, and their family. The actor, 47, appeared to be in great spirits as he threw his head back and laughed in delight before dancing in the street at the …...Read More