A squad of former Leeds United footballers have joined forces to prevent houses being built on sports pitches where they learned to play as youngsters. Stars including former England international David Batty forged their fledgling careers playing for Leeds City Boys at the TV Harrison Ground, the proposed site for …...Read More

One night in central Kenya, I accompanied rangers on a patrol around the Ol Pejeta Conservancy. Methodically we traced the border fence, checking for any breaches or signs of forced entry. Suddenly, out of the darkness, vast shapes loomed towards us. The rangers, who were not carrying weapons, motioned for …...Read More

Civil servants have complained to their superiors that they ‘do not feel comfortable’ with a room in the Treasury being named after Winston Churchill. Reigniting attacks by Black Lives Matter protesters and Left-wing critics on Britain’s wartime hero, some staff at the vast Whitehall department have demanded that its Churchill …...Read More

When Representative Elijah E. Cummings became the first Black lawmaker to lie in state in the Capitol last fall, the public poured into Statuary Hall, a choir from Morgan State University sang and admirers cried and hugged. That was before the coronavirus pandemic changed everything. Now, with the Capitol closed …...Read More

Boris Johnson is being urged to back a new ‘empire-neutral’ public honour as part of plans to reward the heroes of the fight against coronavirus this autumn. The PM was warned that traditional Order of the British Empire medals would deter many worthy recipients from black and ethnic minority communities …...Read More

Newlyweds Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi danced until the early hours with a small group of friends inside a pop-up pub before they spent their wedding night in a glamping pod, it has been revealed. The couple dubbed the marquee The Duke of York and filled it with sofas, …...Read More

With a clutch of Oscars, film director Oliver Stone is a giant of his generation. Last week in the first part of our serialisation of his autobiography, he told how he turned his time as a soldier in Vietnam into one of the greatest war movies. Here, in our final …...Read More

Ricky Gervais has revealed that he wants lions to eat his corpse after death. The comedian, 59, admitted that rather than an official burial he hoped his body would be torn apart at a zoo in front of horrified visitors. Speaking to the Daily Star, he said: 'I do not …...Read More

The boss of Britain’s biggest service station company has called on the Government to slash fuel tax to encourage drivers back on to the roads. Moto chief executive Ken McMeikan has written to Chancellor Rishi Sunak with a plea to consider an ‘immediate VAT reduction on fuel’, from 20 per …...Read More

Representative John Lewis, who died on Friday at 80, was an imposing figure in American politics and the civil rights movement. But his legacy of confronting racism directly, while never swaying from his commitment to nonviolence, started long before he became a national figure. Mr. Lewis, a Georgia Democrat, was …...Read More