Thousands of rail engineers were today starting Railtrack's biggest-ever Christmas engineering programme as the great festive getaway drew to a low-key close. About 8,000 railway engineers are working round the clock at 60 sites nationwide until early
A gloomy Sussex gambler has staked a £5 bet at odds of 10 million-to-one that the world will end today. It must rank as the most bizarre bet ever placed, because if he won the anonymous punter would not be around to collect his £50 million prize. It is
The creator of one of the Sixties' coolest cars, John Cooper, has died aged 77. Tributes today continued to be paid to the former motor racing driver, who died yesterday. He devised the souped-up Mini Cooper in 1961 and it rapidly became the ultimate
A gloomy Sussex gambler has staked a £5 bet at odds of 10 million-to-one that the world will end today. It must rank as the most bizarre bet ever placed, because if he won the anonymous punter would not be around to collect his £50 million prize. It is
The family of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne were today making a Christmas Day visit to her grave. As the rest of the country celebrated the festive season, the Payne family faced the torment of their first Christmas without Sarah. They said they would
The creator of one of the Sixties' coolest cars, John Cooper, has died aged 77. Tributes today continued to be paid to the former motor racing driver, who died yesterday. He devised the souped-up Mini Cooper in 1961 and it rapidly became the ultimate
A man plunged to his death from a holiday jet on to the runway at Gatwick Airport this morning. He was the second person to die in a fall from an aircraft in just two days. An airport worker watched in horror as the man, who has not yet been identified
A 41-year-old man has been charged with attempting to murder his estranged girlfriend. Colin Standing was arrested and charged following an incident involving the unnamed 36-year-old woman, of Banford Close, Brighton, East Sussex, on Saturday night.
The family of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne were today making a Christmas Day visit to her grave. As the rest of the country celebrated the festive season, the Payne family faced the torment of their first Christmas without Sarah. They said they would
A man plunged to his death from a holiday jet on to the runway at Gatwick Airport this morning. He was the second person to die in a fall from an aircraft in just two days. An airport worker watched in horror as the man, who has not yet been identified
A 41-year-old man has been charged with attempting to murder his estranged girlfriend. Colin Standing was arrested and charged following an incident involving the unnamed 36-year-old woman, of Banford Close, Brighton, East Sussex, on Saturday night.
Thousands of rail engineers were today starting Railtrack's biggest-ever Christmas engineering programme as the great festive getaway drew to a low-key close. About 8,000 railway engineers are working round the clock at 60 sites nationwide until early
