Years
The Manchester years: how Burnham’s rebirth as ‘king of the north’ set him on road to No 10
Andy Burnham was a broken man. In a pub a short walk from parliament, which he had taken to calling “the madhouse”, he plotted his escape over beers with...
Former boss of Italian motorways sentenced to 12 years over Genoa bridge tragedy
Thirty-two people, including the former chief executive of Italy’s motorway operator, have been convicted over the 2018 collapse of a Genoa bridge in which 43 people died.In a hushed...
‘The minute I had success, I stopped taking drugs’: John Waters on 60 years of screen carnage
John Waters still remembers the day his 1988 comedy Hairspray was awarded a PG certificate. “It was horrible,” he says.Until then, Waters, christened the “Pope of Trash” by the...
From racist Bugs Bunny to the bear MPs want to ban: how cartoons have indoctrinated kids for over 100 years
When Liberal Democrat MP Tom Gordon spoke earlier this month in the commons of the “militarisation of children”, he wasn’t warning of a generation suddenly taking arms. He was...
‘I’m back’: Suni Lee announces return to gymnastics two years before LA 2028
Suni Lee is making a run at a third Olympics.The America gymnastics star announced she is returning to the sport on Tuesday, about two years out from the Los...
California faces highest shark numbers in years as great whites head north
California is set to see one of its sharkiest summers in a decade, with large numbers of juvenile great whites already on a reverse vacation from the warm waters...
Police hope new photos will help find remains of British backpacker Peter Falconio 25 years after infamous murder
Northern Territory police have reopened evidence boxes to uncover several previously unseen photographs from the investigation into the murder of British backpacker Peter Falconio and attempted abduction of his...
Peter Falconio murder 25 years on: new footage shows dying Australian outback killer’s refusal to reveal body’s location
Infamous killer Bradley John Murdoch aggressively denied knowing where the body of still-missing backpacker Peter Falconio was during a police interview weeks before he died.NT Police released body-worn camera...
