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A Second World War veteran who survived kamikaze attacks has died just days before this year’s Victory in Japan (VJ) day. Richard Edser, 94, from Harlow in Essex, was on board the HMS Formidable aircraft carrier during his service in East Asia. After his death on August 12, his children Bernard Edser and Madeline Couchman … Read more
A mother-of-two has described her relief after she finally passed her driving test following 17 attempts behind the wheel. Blessing Platinum-Williams, 31, first took her driving test in 2008 before repeatedly failing more than a dozen times in 12 years. The ‘relieved’ mother-of-two was finally handed a pass last month after embarking on an intensive … Read more
A mother-of-two has described her relief after she finally passed her driving test following 17 attempts behind the wheel. Blessing Platinum-Williams, 31, first took her driving test in 2008 before repeatedly failing more than a dozen times in 12 years. The ‘relieved’ mother-of-two was finally handed a pass last month after embarking on an intensive … Read more
Barack Obama slammed President Donald Trump for trying to ‘actively kneecap’ the postal service to disenfranchise voters. Obama did not say Trump’s name but did refer to the ‘president’ in his interview on the podcast of David Plouffe, his former campaign manager, in some of his harshest, direct criticism of Trump to date. ‘What we’ve seen … Read more
‘Courageous’ D-Day veteran John Hutton dies aged 96 one year after parachuting into France to mark the 75th anniversary of the landings John ‘Jock’ Hutton was 19 when he served in 13th Lancashire Parachute Battalion The Ministry of Defence said his ‘courage and spirit’ must not be forgotten He parachuted into Normandy and descended to … Read more
A toddler has died after falling from a ninth-floor window at a block of flats in east London. The boy, believed to be aged two, fell at around 4pm yesterday in Shoreditch, east London. Shocked neighbours reported hearing screaming and then seeing the child motionless on the ground beneath the open window. Police and ambulance crews … Read more
A-level student who played dead to survive 2014 Taliban massacre of 150 pupils at his Pakistan school wins place at Oxford University Ahmad Nawaz, 19, almost lost his arm after a terror attack at his school in 2014 The Taliban attack in Peshawar killed 150 students including his brother Haris He has now accepted a place to … Read more
Ofqual blamed teachers for suggesting ‘implausibly high’ A-Level grades today as Keir Starmer joined the backlash by demanding standardisation is ditched. The government is facing a storm after nearly 40 per cent of results were downgraded by the computer model deployed when exams had to be cancelled due to the coronavirus crisis. Boris Johnson and … Read more
A council which incurred the wrath of villagers by shutting down their pop-up market has done a u-turn and allowed it to remain open. Earlier this week Charnwood Borough Council told the organisers of the market at the car park of the Free Trade Inn in Sileby, Leicestershire it would have to close as it breached … Read more
The axe-wielding hero who saved a dog from a stranger’s car by smashing the window said today: ‘I would do the same thing all over again.’ William Morris stepped in after spotting a panting Yorkshire Terrier on the back seat of a VW Golf during the summer heatwave. The little pooch’s owner went shopping with … Read more