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Cold snap continues to hamper cross-Channel travel as frosts linger for another day
Wednesday 13 March 2013
Passengers on cross-Channel journeys endured the worst of the travel disruption today caused by the continuing mid-March cold snap.
Welcome to France? Kent villagers hit by data 'roaming' charges after phones connect to French mobile networks
Monday 11 March 2013
Locals told to switch off the data roaming option on their phones to avoid costly charges
Questionable Time: The panel show waters are treacherous, will Stephen Twigg and Kenneth Clarke make it ashore?
Friday 08 March 2013
Plus: Who, in the name of Jaws 2, is this Diane James?
Eurotunnel may have to sell off its ex-SeaFrance ferries
Tuesday 19 February 2013
Eurotunnel could be forced to sell the ferry business it bought from collapsed operator SeaFrance after the competition watchdog today ruled its purchase would mean “prices would rise” for cross-Channel passengers and freight customers.
High-street heroes
Thursday 07 February 2013
Whistles has a new flagship store and a show at London Fashion Week next Sunday. Harriet Walker finds out how the brand became a household name
Ex-soldiers jailed for arms smuggling
Friday 25 January 2013
Four former soldiers who tried to smuggle guns, ammunition and drugs into the country have been jailed.
London restaurant owners angry and confused over Westminster council's rare burger crackdown
Wednesday 12 December 2012
There’s a bloody row brewing in Westminster as restaurants hit back at council attempts to control the way burgers are served.
Fashion Audit: Going postal, shoe people, and straps for saps
Monday 10 December 2012
What we love, we're not sure about, we're buying and can't wait for...
Driver killed after car was trapped in flood waters as Britain is battered by torrential rain and gale-force winds
Saturday 24 November 2012
Met Office predicting "more heavy rain and strong to gale force winds" in many parts of the UK overnight on Saturday into Sunday
Simon Calder: How to get from A to B (20 million times a month)
Friday 09 November 2012
The man who pays his way
Man who hid 14 million cigarettes in refrigerated lorries carrying fruit and vegetables is jailed
Friday 02 November 2012
A freight distribution manager who hid more than 14 million cigarettes in refrigerated lorries carrying fruit and vegetables, to evade an estimated £2.5 million in duty and VAT, has been jailed, according to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
Willy van Rysel: Long-distance swimming pioneer
Tuesday 23 October 2012
During an interview for Swimming Times magazine in 2003, Willy van Rysel announced matter-of-factly: "I came to Britain in 1948 and was pursued by the paparazzi every day." The paparazzi? Sensing my scepticism, she produced the evidence – a sheaf of press pictures including one showing a gaggle of photographers snapping the would-be Channel swimmer as she left her hotel at Dover.
Runaway teacher Jeremy Forrest expected back in UK today
Wednesday 10 October 2012
Runaway teacher Jeremy Forrest is expected back in the UK today after going on the run with his 15-year-old pupil Megan Stammers.
French court rules Megan teacher can be extradited
Friday 05 October 2012
Arrangements were being made last night for the return of teacher Jeremy Forrest to Britain to face questioning for alleged child abduction after a French court agreed his extradition.
- 1 Pope Francis: Being an atheist is alright as long as you do good
- 2 Man and woman arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder victim of Woolwich machete attack, named as Drummer Lee Rigby
- 3 'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
- 4 Archaeologists uncover nearly 5,000 cave paintings in Burgos, Mexico
- 5 Lord of the Sings: Sir Christopher Lee, 91, to release heavy metal album
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