The former Post Office boss at the centre of an IT scandal has stepped down from a Church of England ethics committee. Paula Vennells, 61, has taken a ‘leave of absence’ from the Church’s ethical investment advisory group. It follows a complaint that the part-time priest breached the group’s code …...Read More

The Queen has thanked the army for their services 'both at home and overseas' as she marks Armed Forces Day, which takes place on the last Saturday of June. In a letter written by the Queen, the monarch, 94, recognised the 'dedication and risks faced by those serving our nation'. …...Read More

It has taken a while, but Harry Potter has cast a spell on one of the world’s most notorious dictatorships. North Korea has embraced JK Rowling’s books 23 years after the first was released. The country is known for its tight control over what literature citizens can read. But now …...Read More

For all the talk of a second wave of Covid-19, it was not the risk of killer germs which had infuriated the locals hereabouts yesterday. It was all the rubbish. As yesterday’s Mail revealed in graphic detail, Bournemouth beach had resembled a human ant heap this week on the hottest …...Read More

In his barnstorming, brilliantly frank autobiography Me, published in October last year, Elton John recalls in some detail the day of his wedding to German sound engineer Renate Blauel. The bride looked gloriously beautiful in a white Lindka Cierach dress on that Valentine’s Day in Darling Point, Sydney, in 1984, …...Read More

TV presenter John Craven has urged gardeners to stop using peat compost in order to help the environment. Peat potting compost has been used for decades, with around three billion litres of the plant material ending up in our gardens every year. But the BBC Countryfile host, pictured, has asked …...Read More

Council workers in Liverpool this morning battled to collect hundreds of tonnes of rubbish strewn across the city after football fans celebrated winning the league for the first time in 30 years. Tens of thousands of fans packed into the city centre despite warnings over the spread of Covid-19 to …...Read More

An A&E nurse has told how she felt 'violated' when she found her parked car stripped of its parts after completing a gruelling 12-hour shift yesterday. Demi Murphy, 24, found the driver's window of her Toyota Aygo smashed in and the front of the vehicle nearly totally stripped by thugs. …...Read More

Advertisement Protesters held a rally on Friday evening in Washington D.C. as they continued to call for the removal of a statue of President Abraham Lincoln and a freed black man. The statue, which is located in Lincoln Park, is known as the Emancipation Memorial or Freedman's Memorial and depicts …...Read More

Two workers at a coffee dispenser warehouse in Springfield, Ill., were fatally shot and another critically wounded after a co-worker opened fire on Friday morning, the authorities said. The gunman fled and was found dead in his vehicle more than two hours later, the Springfield police chief, Kenny Winslow, said …...Read More