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David Wilkes - General Reporter

David Wilkes joined the Daily Mail as a reporter in 2000 after working on local newspapers. He worked in the Midlands area until 2009 and has covered a range of events.

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Backlash at 'colonial' plan to give other nations a bigger say over Justin Welby's successor as Archbishop of Canterbury

10/02/22 10:23

The most senior clergyman in the Church of England is the spiritual leader of 80 million worshippers worldwide but has no power over Anglican churches in other nations. Candidates for the role - currently held by Justin Welby - are nominated by 16 members of the Crown Nominations Commission and final approval is given by the Queen. But under controversial new plans, first revealed in a CofE consultation document last month, the places for overseas representatives would be boosted from one to five. During a discussion yesterday at the General Synod, the Church's parliament, Rev David Bruce Bryant-Scott - an assistant chaplain on the Greek island of Crete, who was born in Canada - said: 'I think if this proposal was put to my colleagues in the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada it would be resoundingly defeated....read

'It was almost as if nothing had happened': Queen's cousin jailed for sex assault on a 26-year-old woman at Glamis castle is free... to star in his brother's high society wedding after serving just five months in prison
04/02/22 10:13
The disgrace of Simon Bowes-Lyon, the Earl of Strathmore, appeared to have been forgotten as he was accepted back into society high circles at his younger brother Jock's wedding.
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Sailors sink software tycoon's plan for £4m avant-garde home at coastal idyll... because light glinting off the windows will dazzle them
02/02/22 10:01
Millionaire software expert Chris Hoyle and his wife Elaine want to build an avant-garde mansion in the New Forest - but locals say its bright lighting could dazzle sailors.
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Orf with her hair! German Waxwork model of The Queen is left BALD under her hat... to avoid museum splashing out too much money on real locks
27/01/22 12:27
German wax museum Panoptikum yesterday revealed that - because of the cost of hair - its replica of the monarch has a bare scalp under the hat.
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Be brave, I was once an orphan too, little one! Poignant image shows Kadiki the elephant wrapping her trunk around baby Beatrix to reassure her as she meets the rest of the herd in Zimbabwe
22/01/22 12:16
Beatrix the orphan baby elephant was nursed back to good health but her traumatic start to life had left her feeling timid all the time.
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Portraits with a unique a-peel: The ingenious creations of a London artist who bruises bananas to create striking images... then eats them
20/01/22 01:01
This bunch of artfully blemished beauties has got under the skin of thousands of admirers worldwide - one even replicates Mona Lisa.
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Letters sent by Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones to 14-year-old fan set to fetch £3,400 at auction after she unearthed them more than 50 years later while moving
14/01/22 01:00
Christine Dalton, then 14, who developed a crush after seeing the Stones on TV show Ready Steady Go had earlier written to the Rolling Stones guitarist who later died in his own swimming pool.
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Forces' Sweet-art! How Dame Vera Lynn was a dab hand with the easel and oils as 20 of her paintings go on display
13/01/22 01:20
Dame Vera Lynn, pictured, was an accomplished painter having completed more than 300 works of art that have been catalogued since her death at the age of 103.
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How Putin could black out Britain: Top military man warns Russian sabotage could wreck undersea cables that supply our internet and $10 trillion of financial deals a day
10/01/22 10:00
Military intelligence officials believe Russia has developed technology, such as the Yantar, which carries remotely operated submarines equipped with hydraulic cutters.
The way we were... 100 years ago: More than 40,000 orphans, over a million servants and 1.7m more women than men. In utterly absorbing new detail, a snapshot of a nation still recovering from ravages of WWI
07/01/22 01:01
When the 1921 census forms were delivered to 8.5 million homes, many used them to vent their anger - going beyond the required details of name, age, occupation, marital status and address.
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Just hanging around with my Daddy! Willow, two, joins her gold medallist father Max Whitlock in the gym
31/12/21 12:47
Willow Whitlock, from Basildon, Essex, is quickly learning routines - including on the rings, pommel horse, as well as handstands - at the gym where her father has trained since he was 12.
It's Sanda Claus! Former GP marks Christmas with festive artwork on beach
24/12/21 01:41
The moment was created in a stunning 60ft by 45ft image at Beadnell Bay, Northumberland by sand artist Claire Eason who was a doctor for 30 years.
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How the Mail helped find new homes for these pandemic pups: Hundreds of young pooches callously dumped during Covid pandemic delight in their new surroundings
24/12/21 12:59
During the pandemic, hundreds of puppies were callously dumped at rescue centres across the country after the novelty wore off. Here, the Daily Mail shares how some have found new homes.
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The £15MILLION holiday: Dinner with famous explorers, then a private jet to a frozen isle... and an expedition to leave first footsteps on 'undiscovered' territory
18/12/21 12:31
Adrenaline junkies are going to need seriously deep pockets for the latest extreme getaway - it costs £15.3million - and polar survival training to cope with -34C temperatures on the trip.
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New head of charity watchdog is forced to resign before even STARTING the job: Friend of Boris Johnson left Women For Women charity after bullying claims - but WAS cleared for sending a raunchy photo to a female junior
17/12/21 10:01
Martin Thomas, 58, a friend of Boris Johnson, stepped down from his new job after it emerged he had resigned from a previous post after being found guilty of 'inappropriate' conduct.
Ditch kids' classics like Peter Rabbit and get your children reading woke modern books about helping the homeless and a boy whose mums are both pirates, Oxford University Press tells parents
15/12/21 10:00
Oxford University Press (OUP) is urging parents to 'be more adventurous' and pick up more modern books - which deal with topics such as diversity, homelessness and the environment.
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Up, up and a-neigh! Meet Tuli, the 'untrainable' horse sold for £1 who is now a dressage master... worth an estimated £10,000
03/12/21 12:04
After being rescued from a defunct stud farm in Hungary where he was kept in a cramped, dirty stall and denied regular exercise, the horse was rejected as untrainable by ten owners in the UK.
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Bride-to-be forced on doomed dinghy at gunpoint: First victim of Channel tragedy is student, 24, from Iraq who hoped to join her fiance in England... as UK warns France MORE will die if it doesn't stamp down on sick smugglers
27/11/21 12:11
Up to 50 people were supposed to board two boats ahead of the fatal voyage across Channel - but one vessel suffered engine trouble, those in camps in France claimed.
'My wife was on the boat': Iraqi woman's husband tells how migrants' inflatable disappeared from GPS as he watched and now he fears she is among the 27 dead
26/11/21 12:36
Maryam Nuri, from Ranya in northern Iraq, is thought to be one of the victims of the capsized flimsy boat which sank off the coast of Calais on Wednesday amid harsh seas and cold temperatures.
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'It's not good, I don't know if we're going to make it': The chilling final phone call from migrant feared drowned to friend in Calais... how desperate crossing led to catastrophe leaving 27 dead
25/11/21 10:44
Riaz Mohammed, 12, his relative Share Mohammed, 17 (pictured), and two other teenagers, Palowan, 16, and Shinai, 15, were among those attempting the perilous crossing on Wednesday.
In pursuit of happiness? Try moving to Hexham! Small market town is a byword for paradise as it's named the most satisfying place to live
24/11/21 12:01
The Northumberland town of Hexham, boasting a seventh-century abbey, idyllic countryside and a farmer's market, has been crowned the happiest place to live in Britain by a Rightmove poll.
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Le Showdown: Furious Liz Truss summons French Ambassador for dressing down as Navy patrols are put on standby and UK mulls retaliation options over 'illegal hijacking' of Scottish trawler whose crew is detained after being forced to dock at Le Harve
28/10/21 10:15
Britain was last night preparing to retaliate after a UK trawler was detained by France amid fears the fishing row could spark a full-blown trade war.
Heroes' final farewell... thanks to YOU: Britain was the only allied nation not to be honoured in Normandy - until generous readers stepped in. Now, as veterans are able to visit at last, their stories will move you profoundly
27/10/21 10:05
Among the veterans who visited memorial in Ver-sur-Merto was 96-year-old Harry Billinge, who found the name of Lance Corporal Joseph Neades who died in his arms in the battle of Normandy.
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Home tweet home! How one stylist gave the humble bird box a designer makeover or two... and had visitors flocking
20/10/21 09:00
There's a neo-classical bathroom with a freestanding tub, a Scandi-rustic lounge with woodburner, a boho snug with a Buddha, and an on-trend 'cottagecore' living room with a vintage vibe.
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Crusader of backbenches who loved Strictly - but not Eurovision: How Sir David Amess's talismanic victory in Basildon in 1992 first told Britain that John Major (not Neil Kinnock) would be prime minister
15/10/21 09:19
Murdered Conservative MP Sir David Amess first entered political folklore during the 1992 election when his famously Tory Essex seat was expected to fall to Neil Kinnock's Labour.
Hockney's 300 feet of spring! Artist David creates 220 landscape pictures on his iPad of his farmhouse in France as seasons changed during lockdown
08/10/21 09:02
'A Year in Normandie' features a 298ft-long frieze made up of some of the 220 landscape pictures David Hockney created last year from his Normandy farmhouse.
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The Beatles nearly SACKED George Harrison and lined up Eric Clapton to replace him, unearthed recordings from January 1969 reveal
01/10/21 09:01
The title of The Beatles' album Let It Be suggested serenity and acceptance. But newly unearthed recordings prove the Fab Four's swansong followed more of a Long and Winding Road.
Love is in the air! Romantic flyboarder stuns crowd with 007-style tricks... and a marriage proposal
20/09/21 12:32
Surging into the sky and swooping back down over the water in Dartmouth, Devon, flyboarder James Prestwood is everywhere you look around - just like the song.
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Ear, ear! Hound Lou's record-breaking lugholes are among the entries in the latest Guinness World Records book
15/09/21 11:16
Lou the black and tan coonhound, from Portland, Oregon, is the new holder of the record for 'longest ears on a dog (living)'. Each measures 13.38 inches.
How many Aston Martins go in the line of fire to shoot a Bond movie? Answer: TEN... Stunning new images from No Time To Die show iconic DB5s during filming in the Italian stone city of Matera
15/09/21 09:03
DAVID WILKES: Stunning new pictures from No Time To Die show ten Aston Martin DB5s, eight of which were specifically made for the film, against the backdrop of the stone city of Matera.
We don't just walk our dogs... we wear them too! Is it Fursace? Is it Poochi? Meet the pet owners who send their dogs' clippings to be spun and woven into canine couture
14/09/21 09:53
Sandie Tadd (left) made a jumper from her Pyrenean Mountain Dog Kalie's fur, whilst Michelle Parker (right) had a stylish scarf produced from her Samoyed Luka's undercoat.
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Flying the flag: RAF Typhoon roars over White Cliffs of Dover in dramatic salute to The Few ahead of Battle of Britain Day
14/09/21 09:03
The aircraft, call sign Blackjack, is from the RAF Typhoon Display Team based at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire.
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A throne fit for the Queen: Royal toilet, bathroom and bedroom are revealed in Maltese villa where Her Majesty and Prince Philip lived as newlyweds in 1949
04/09/21 01:49
Historian Bettany Hughes was allowed to film inside the property, which has fallen into disrepair but has been acquired by the Maltese government for restoration, for an episode of her TV series.
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Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, 77, quits Britain to spend her 'last summers' with her grandson in her native New Zealand after Covid pandemic kept them apart for months
30/08/21 09:43
Retired opera star Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, 77, told how she made the decision to move back to her native New Zealand after the pandemic meant she was unable to see her grandson for months.
Lucian Freud's controversial portrait of the Queen that was accused of giving Her Majesty a 'rugby forward's neck' will go on display at special exhibition
26/08/21 10:37
Lucian Freud's controversial oil portrait of the Queen - with a rugby forward's thick neck and 'five o'clock shadow'- is to feature in a major exhibition marking the artist's centenary.
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'My family are prime targets for the Taliban': Afghan interpreter, 32, who once translated for Prince Charles and government ministers and who fled Kabul for the UK in 2013 pleads for loved ones to be allowed into Britain
21/08/21 12:59
Nazir Ayeen, 32, served from 2007 to 2010 with the Royal Marines and Scots Guards on the frontline in Helmand. He also translated during high-profile VIP visits, which included Charles in 2010.
Now THAT'S a hanging garden! Churchgoers knit 'flower tower' with 1,400 stunning DIY blooms to brighten up village during pandemic
25/07/21 11:38
Retired art teacher Alison White, 64, hoped to get up to 500 blooms, but there are now 1,452 at St Margaret of Antioch in Barley, Hertfordshire.
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Battle for City genius's millions between his nightclub boss lover, 44, and brother who says she got £4million from him through 'undue influence'
25/07/21 09:00
Magdalena Zalinska, 44, a nightclub boss, is being sued by Edi Truell over claims she obtained £4million from Danny by 'undue influence' before he died of a neurological condition aged 55 in 2019.
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Now that's a theatre revival! After work that took two years (and cost £60m), curtain's up at Andrew Lloyd Webber's historic Theatre Royal in London
22/07/21 11:55
Generations of stars have graced the stage of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, but time took its inevitable toll on the current Georgian building and it was in dire need of a revamp
Michael Gove splits with wife Sarah Vine after 20 years of marriage and they are 'in the process of finalising their divorce'
02/07/21 04:09
Senior Government minister Michael Gove and his journalist wife Sarah Vine are to split after almost twenty years of marriage, a joint spokesman for the couple said.
Licensed to spill: Ex-MI6 boss Richard Dearlove tells tale of handling Cold War double agent
27/06/21 11:26
The case unfolded after Sir Richard was posted to the British embassy in Prague earlier in his career as a first secretary in communist Czechoslovakia in 1973 with his wife Rosalind.
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I've not read my biography - it's radioactive! Tom Stoppard reveals he only uses the highly-acclaimed story of his life to jog his memory
24/06/21 11:48
The 83-year-old (pictured with his wife Sabrina Guinness) has only dipped into Dame Hermione Lee's work - Tom Stoppard: A Life, published last year - as a memory aid for himself.
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Why pen-pushers cause disasters - NOT our leaders: Obscure bureaucrats are often at fault for bad decisions blamed on top politicians, historian says
24/06/21 12:58
It would appear easy to blame populist leaders for disasters. But while human error certainly seems to play a part, it is often obscure bureaucrats who are actually at fault, says historian Niall Ferguson.
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His Royal Rhymeness: Author can't wait for Chalke Valley History Festival... after learning list of kings and queens in lockdown
22/06/21 12:10
Author and comedian Charlie Higson, a regular at the Daily Mail Chalke Valley History Festival for many years, is among the speakers at the event which starts tomorrow.
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Gambling addiction fears rise ahead of Euro 2020 as research shows fans were exposed to 716 betting logos in just ONE top-flight match
07/06/21 12:06
The findings from the Newcastle United versus Wolverhampton Wanderers match in February are featured in Channel 4's documentary, Football's Gambling Addiction.
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How our four days of Jubilee joy will play out: Parties, pageants and pop concerts... and a huge Sunday lunch are among the events to mark the Queen's 70 years on throne
02/06/21 09:43
Displays of pageantry may seem a distant memory but after the dolour of the pandemic the nation is set to come together next year in a great celebration of the Queen's historic Platinum Jubilee.
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SouthYork the sequel: Fourteen years after oligarch paid £3m over the asking price for Prince Andrew's marital home and razed it to the ground, an ultra-modern mega-mansion is born
31/05/21 09:00
Timur Kulibayev, son-in-law of the former president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, bought Sunninghill Park in Ascot, Berkshire, in 2007 for £15million.
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Queen of the castle: Friends of Carrie gloat that her marriage to Boris Johnson is a 'triumph' over Dominic Cummings - as she prepares to host leaders' partners at the G7 in her first public role as PM's new wife
31/05/21 07:59
The Johnsons surprise Saturday wedding at Westminister Cathedral capped a roller-coaster week for the couple in which they were both mauled by the PM's ex-chief aide.
Last rites for seminary after 130 years... as it runs out of trainee PRIESTS: Lack of aspiring clergymen sparks end of long-running institution
30/05/21 09:31
The 130-year-old St John's Roman Catholic seminary in Wonersh, near Guildford, Surrey, is closing this summer after running out of trainee priests, with the class of 2021 numbering only five.
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Johnson & Johnson: Carrie takes Boris's surname after wearing 'borrowed' £2,870 dress to their hush-hush festival-chic wedding - as couple delay honeymoon so PM can get back to work on fight against Covid tomorrow
30/05/21 09:00
The couple tied the knot in secret at Westminster Cathedral on Saturday before celebrating with a small group of family and friends at a summer festival-themed party in the Downing Street garden.
Why Boris’s first two marriages ‘didn’t count’: Catholic Diocese of Westminster confirms Prime Minister could get wed in cathedral because as someone baptised in the faith, his previous nuptials were not considered valid
30/05/21 09:00
The PM was baptised as a Catholic but was confirmed as an Anglican as a teenager but his previous marriages were not considered valid as they were not Catholic ceremonies.
The damning documents: In key figures' own handwriting, the full story of Martin Bashir's interview with Princess Diana laid bare
21/05/21 01:46
Lord Dyson's report includes a litany of documents that expose Martin Bashir's lies and the BBC cover-up that followed. Among them are the forged bank statements.
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Brazen Bashir is still in denial: Disgraced journalist defends his interview and says it is 'saddening' the scandal overshadowed Princess Diana's 'brave' decision to tell all
20/05/21 09:47
Despite the findings of Lord Dyson's report, Martin Bashir, 58, insisted he was 'proud' of the 1995 interview and claimed his 'stupid' decision to fake bank statements did not influence her decision.
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New John Le Carre novel featuring a spy's antics in a seaside town is to be published... a year after his death
20/05/21 12:21
Author John le Carré, who worked for both MI5 and MI6, died from pneumonia in December and only left one full-length work unpublished. The book, called Silverview, will be published in October.
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Have a blast with the past! Chalke Valley festival will liven up summer as families get the chance to travel through history
19/05/21 12:26
Tickets are now on sale for the festival which is due to begin on June 23 - two days after all limits on social contact are due to be lifted. The event will feature live music, story-telling and guest speakers
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The Anne Boleyn book club: Collection of prayers belonging to Henry VIII's second wife was secretly passed around her noble women friends after her execution
19/05/21 12:04
Masters student Kate McCaffrey discovered a list of names she believes indicate who possessed the book after Anne's death. She made the discovery using UV light during her research
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Were Lord Mountbatten's files suppressed to hide royal affairs? Historian asks why private letters are still sealed because they 'endanger national security and international relations'
14/05/21 09:00
Andrew Lownie says he has spent £250,000 of his own money trying to see the private diaries of Lord Mountbatten, written from 1918 until 1979, when he was killed by the IRA.
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A 1st class tribute to Prince Philip: Duke of Edinburgh's life is commemorated in new series of black and white stamps showing images of the late royal from the 1940s to 1992
12/05/21 11:04
Four stamps in memory of Prince Philip will go on sale next month, the Royal Mail announced, each with a portrait of the duke from different stages of his life.
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Stalin's Spitfire: Wrecked in Russia in 1945 after being loaned to the Red Army, iconic aircraft is brought home... and given a £2million makeover
10/05/21 09:05
The Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX, serial number PT879, was one of 1,328 British fighters supplied to the Red Army from 1942 to 1945 under an often forgotten 'lend-lease' scheme by the Allies.
Campaign demands a stop to 'inhumane' funeral restrictions - after plight of grieving families was highlighted by the sight of the Queen sitting alone
19/04/21 11:51
The plight of grieving families was highlighted by the sight of the Queen sitting alone at the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral on Saturday. Calls are being made for urgent reviews over the limit for mourners.
Herald who proclaimed Prince Philip's styles and titles as his coffin was lowered into the royal vault reveals sense of 'honour' for being part of a 'moment of history'
18/04/21 09:03
Thomas Woodcock wore his ceremonial dress of a tabard bearing the royal coat of arms, black breeches and stockings, and a mourning scarf. He carried a sceptre, a badge of his office.
Poet Laureate Simon Armitage's first royal poem is a moving elegy to Prince Philip as an emblem of the wartime generation whose survival was the 'stuff of minor miracle'
16/04/21 09:01
The poem, entitled The Patriarchs, refers to the duke and his generation as 'husbands to duty' and 'great-grandfathers from birth' who became the 'inner core and outer case' for their families.
Trust Philip to do his own flypast! Soaring solo over the very spot he will be laid to rest, how the Duke of Edinburgh would truly like to be remembered
16/04/21 09:00
Soaring over Windsor Castle, this is the Duke of Edinburgh performing his own flypast of the mighty royal fortress in May 1953.
Puppies can be so taxing, George! Labrador is pictured giving ex-Chancellor, 49, the runaround - days after he announced his engagement to his pregnant former aide, 39
08/04/21 09:48
Former chancellor George Osborne was struggling with his new puppy while taking it The Mutz Nutz grooming clinic in Notting Hill, west London.
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Tetra Pak heir's £8m to save youth centres: Hans Rausing and his wife make huge donation to prevent closures of clubs for young people
16/03/21 01:05
Hans and Julia Rausing, who are among Britain's most generous philanthropists, yesterday gave £8 million to save youth centres from permanent closure due to the pandemic
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How former editor Roy Greenslade boasted how he did 'my little bit to get at the truth' by putting on Irish accent to pass details from a Republican contact to a reporter on his own paper
13/03/21 12:09
Roy Greenslade described the phone call to a colleague on The Sunday Times as 'very amusing' in a 2007 British Library recording on the history of the British Press that surfaced yesterday.
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A year in the art of lockdown: From her first days of isolation to the jab that set her free (and her father's tragic Covid death), how one amateur illustrator charted 12 months of pandemic hell
08/03/21 10:01
From bad hair days to home workouts on Zoom, these little paintings depict life in lockdown. Witty, satirical and tender and, at times, heartbreakingly poignant, they are the work of Sue Prince.
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It's the mini Mary Beard! Girl, 8, dresses up as historical figures to give lessons to other children during lockdown... and attracts thousands of online followers including the famed scholar
28/02/21 10:01
Eight-year-old Arabella Duffy, from Hampstead, north-west London, assumes the guise of historical figures to give five-minute lessons to other children during the lockdown.
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Is this Britain's bravest traffic warden? As Prince Philip, 99, prepares to spend the weekend in hospital, his royal protection officers' Range Rover gets a parking ticket
18/02/21 10:01
Royal protection officers found their Range Rover had been given a fixed penalty notice after it was parked on double yellow lines 'for a couple of hours' a witness claimed, before the vehicle was moved.
And the next stop is... in 200ft! Man who was transfixed by a famous junction in Yorkshire as a boy transforms it it into Britain's BIGGEST model railway... so what does his fiancee say?
11/02/21 10:08
As a boy, Simon George loved watching the trains rumble past at the busy railway junction in a hamlet near his home.
The shaggy dog story to melt your heart: Six adorable spaniels, their best-selling calendar... and how it helped pay a £5,000 vet's bill that saved the life of their new pack member
04/02/21 10:08
Vet Kelly Roberts, 36, from Monmouthshire, raised more than £5,000 for four rounds of surgery for a springer spaniel brought in to her clinic with a broken leg - and was then welcomed into her home.
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Winston Churchill's WWII painting gets put up for auction by owner Angelina Jolie... and it's expected to fetch up to £2.5m
02/02/21 12:24
Sir Winston Churchill's only painting during the Second World War, which he gave to US president Franklin D Roosevelt, has been put up for sale by its current owner Angelina Jolie.
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Race against time to save King George III's £2m watch for Britain and stop it disappearing overseas after culture minister put temporary export bar on it
29/01/21 11:52
The gold watch that was made for George III in 1808 is one of fewer than ten watches with a tourbillon mechanism made by Prussian master horologist Abraham-Louis Breguet known to exist.
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A cuckoo in our nest! Garden designer nurses injured bird back to health in his bathroom after rescuing it from the road
22/01/21 10:07
When Joel Ashton spotted one of the endangered and seldom seen birds lying injured and exhausted in a road, it heralded the start of a touching rescue mission
Army unit faces gender row as officials consider changing 'craftsman' rank to 'private' to avoid it being too gender-specific
22/01/21 10:00
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery said the corps would 'keep the punch in the Army's fist'. Now the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers have surrendered to political correctness.
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Ex-lover of former Spanish king claims spy chief 'hinted she would die like Princess Diana'
15/01/21 10:46
Corinna Larsen claimed General Felix Sanz Roldan, the former head of Spain 's CNI intelligence services, made threats against her and her children as he tried to recover documents.
Jung, free and single? Try a dating app based on psychoanalysis! Sisters launch hookup tool that puts personality first... and its already led to one couple getting married
13/01/21 02:01
Sisters Jess and Lou Alderson's new dating app they launched during lockdown has been so successful it has already celebrated its first wedding. SoSyncd puts personality first.
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It's Britain's most bonkers yard sale! From a £250k dinosaur to a £35k Kate Moss portrait, it's all up for grabs as the owners of an eccentric stately pile sell up
04/01/21 11:33
From a 65 million-year-old dinosaur skull to cutting-edge modern design, not for nothing has Aynhoe Park been dubbed a museum crossed with a fantasy world.
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The rail clerk's son who became a Beatles buddy and Sixties icon: As veteran pop star Gerry Marsden dies at 78, a look back at his extraordinary life
03/01/21 10:16
Gerry Marsden was one of the pioneers of the Merseybeat sound and turned You'll Never Walk Alone into both a singalong for football fans and an anthem of hope.
Farewell to the Mailman with the magic pen: Tributes pour in after Mail cartoonist Ken Mahood dies at 90
31/12/20 11:57
Fondly remembered for his generosity and kindness as well as for his award-winning work, he passed away peacefully in St Thomas' Hospital in London on Wednesday night.
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