Sam Russell
UK
Delivery driver who quit job after lottery win spreads joy at former workplace
Gary MacDonald, 61, delivered parcels to stores across Lakeside Shopping Centre in Thurrock, Essex, for more than 30 years before his win last year.
By Sam Russell
1 Jun 2026
UK
Prisoner, 44, is charged with murder of fellow inmate at high-security jail
John Mansfield, who was jailed for life in 2007 for the murder of his neighbour Ann Alfanso, 63, was found dead at HMP Whitemoor in April.
By Sam Russell
30 Oct 2025
Environment
UK’s last flying Lancaster bomber touches down for maintenance work
The aircraft arrived at IWM Duxford in Cambridgeshire on Wednesday.
By Sam Russell
30 Oct 2025
Environment
Demolition of clifftop home threatened by coastal erosion under way
Homeowner Jean Flick, 88, said her heart would ‘just break’ if the Suffolk property had to be demolished.
By Sam Russell
28 Oct 2025
Crime
Just Stop Oil pair who sought to spray paint on Taylor Swift’s jet spared jail
Jennifer Kowalski and Cole Macdonald had been targeting Swift’s jet but the planes they sprayed belonged to an insurance firm and investment group.
By Sam Russell
27 Oct 2025
Science
We are on the cusp of an era of ‘very early’ dementia diagnosis, says minister
One million people in the UK currently live with dementia and this number is expected to rise to 1.4 million by 2040.
By Sam Russell
24 Oct 2025
Crime
Inquiry into mental health deaths told ex-footballer was treated ‘like animal’
Colin Flatt’s death came within three months of discharge from a mental health unit.
By Sam Russell
22 Oct 2025
Crime
Mother jailed for murder of autistic son, five, after struggling to cope
Claire Button, 36, denied her son Lincoln’s murder last December in South Ockendon, Essex, but was found guilty by a jury.
By Sam Russell
17 Oct 2025
Crime
Fourth man jailed for violent disorder outside hotel housing asylum seekers
Police said the 28-year-old acted in an ‘intimidating way, encouraging other people there to face off against our officers’.
By Sam Russell
17 Oct 2025
Politics
‘War can knock on everyone’s door’, warns Ukrainian soldier after training in UK
The training programme is called Operation Interflex.
By Sam Russell
15 Oct 2025
UK
Family of MP Sir David Amess ‘still without answers’ four years after his murder
His killer, Ali Harbi Ali, had been referred to the Government’s counter-terror programme Prevent programme.
By Sam Russell
14 Oct 2025
UK
Floating Land Rover used to cross Bering Strait is to be sold at auction
Adventurer and cattle farmer Steve Burgess made the journey as part of the Cape to Cape Expedition.
By Sam Russell
8 Oct 2025
UK
Misconduct hearings find six police officers shared offensive WhatsApp messages
All of the officers had served with Cambridgeshire Police and were based in Peterborough.
By Sam Russell
7 Oct 2025
Crime6 Oct 2025
Three men jailed for violent disorder outside Epping migrant hotel
Several protests were held outside the Bell Hotel after an asylum seeker sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl and a woman
Tech
US veteran becomes first to get new bionic arm designed by UK firm
Open Bionics describes the Hero RGD as ‘built for the toughest jobs’.
By Sam Russell
2 Oct 2025
UK
Journalist who wrote English lyrics for Les Miserables ‘felt lack of credit’
The 40th anniversary of the English-language version of the musical, which opened in London in 1985, is on October 8.
By Sam Russell
2 Oct 2025
Environment
Researchers use cryopreservation to help survival of rare British butterfly
The British Swallowtail population has dropped by 57% in the last 20 years.
By Sam Russell
1 Oct 2025
Politics
Disadvantaged students ‘more likely to miss out on GCSE foreign languages’
In 2004, language learning ceased to be compulsory at Key Stage 4, aged 14 to 16.
By Sam Russell
1 Oct 2025
UK
Ancient Egyptian notes and coffin mask to go on display in new exhibition
One of the notes records absences from work at the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings in ancient Thebes.
By Sam Russell
1 Oct 2025
Crime
Migrant jailed for 16 weeks for assaults inside asylum hotel
Mohammed Sharwarq, 32, had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to two counts of common assault and four of assault by beating.
By Sam Russell
30 Sept 2025
Crime
Migrant who assaulted four people at asylum hotel ‘wants to return to Syria’
Mohammed Sharwarq was a resident at the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, at the time of the offences in July and August of this year.
By Sam Russell
30 Sept 2025