Ian McCrae, who has died aged 84, was a Scottish rugby internationalist, renowned as a fierce competitor but one who played the game in its true spirit. Affectionally nicknamed Spivvy, he was pivotal ...

Fay Lenore was one of the best known and most popular post-war British variety performers, spending almost a lifetime in ...

New principal Séamus Scorgie brings global Jesuit experience and an ambitious vision to St Aloysius’ College, championing tradition, ...

A breathtaking walking route in Lancashire boasts an incredibly famous link to a bestselling author and has formed the inspiration behind a mammoth blockbuster film trilogy. It's well known that JRR ...

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Saintly relics, royal robes and precious prayer books were just some of the rare treasures we were treated to an exclusive glimpse of when we visited ‘the world’s oldest English-speaking museum’, ...

A man who mowed down and killed his girlfriend's brother on the night they first met has been sentenced to life in prison. Martin O'Donovan, 47, was struck by Stephen Bates' Ford Fiesta outside his ...

A man who ran over and killed his girlfriend’s brother on the night they first met has been jailed for life. Martin O'Donovan died aged 47 after being hit by Stephen Bates' Ford Fiesta outside his ...

The westward expansion and urbanization of the 19th century left clusters of families scattered across rural America, with only muddy ruts and a rudimentary web of roads to connect them. To attend ...

THE closing of Stonyhurst Observatory on December 31, 1947, brings to an end more than a century of scientific work. Founded in 1838, the Observatory has been staffed and maintained by the Society of ...

This school year, many of the nation's adolescents and teens are sitting in class without the device that can sometimes feel like an added appendage: their smartphones. States such as Florida, Indiana ...