In Valentine, this novel's 19th-century heroine, Toksvig has created a fabulously rebellious woman. “Why must you be so adventurous, Valentine?” her gay cousin, Reggie, chides as she falls off a horse.

75 years on, National Railway Museum gathers five surviving sister locomotives

Menswear revolves around uniforms. That sounds like an overly simple statement, but the final day of Paris’ spring/summer 2014 menswear shows has kitted out man in a variety of guises, each, in one way or another, a uniform.

Ultimate defeat militants will only come with a comprehensive political settlement for war-torn country

No longer just for painters and maternity wear,  dungarees have returned to fashion just in time  for the festival season – even if they will mean you take a little longer in the loo, says Naomi Attwood

The case of two soldiers who admitted the sexual and racial abuse of Afghan citizens reveals an unhelpful double standard in the military

Labour leader Ed Miliband described yesterday's murder of a soldier in Woolwich as “an act of complete cowardice”.

Anti-terror police investigating the "barbaric" murder of a soldier in London have searched a property 150 miles away in Lincolnshire.

Thomas Eccleshare’s first play won the 2011 Verity Bargate award, so named in honour of the Soho’s founding co-director, and it arrives in London from a season at the High Tide Festival in Halesworth, Suffolk (where I saw it), full of bleak poetry and hilarious stage action.

He loses last-minute claim that prosecutors acted improperly

Thomas Dunkley accused of using former WBA light-middleweight champion’s own credit cards to purchase a chainsaw he used to dismember him

Aside from the quiet, what struck me most was the heterogeneity of the crowd

A Royal Marine corporal who wore the uniform of a sergeant and medals he was not entitled to at a family wedding to "big it up and impress his family" was fined £300 today .