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A bold-jumping grey in the King George at Kempton: for a dozen years from the mid‑1980s, it was a Boxing Day tradition as Desert Orchid, One Man and Teeton Mill racked up seven wins from nine appearances between them. And as Robert Kirkland, a racehorse owner for nearly 40 years, …

A 28-year-old man has been charged with murder after the death of an Elizabeth line worker in east London.

Jorge Ortega, 61, died in hospital from head injuries after officers from the British Transport Police (BTP) were called to Ilford station just before 8.50pm on 5 December. He died the …

Every summer, Dongting Hu, China’s second-largest freshwater lake, swells in size as flood water from the Yangtze River flows into its borders. Dams and dikes are erected around the lake’s edges to protect against flooding. But this year, not for the first time, they were overwhelmed.

For three days in …

The British car industry has welcomed government proposals that could allow

Toyota Prius-style hybrids

The UK government published details on Christmas Eve of a consultation …

Players of the year

Head coaches of the year

Most memorable games attended

Nasa’s Parker solar probe is about to make its closest ever flyby of the sun, passing 3.8m miles from its surface on Christmas Eve.

The spacecraft will make the record-breaking approach, known as a perihelion, at 6.53am US eastern time (1153 GMT).

The mission team will lose contact with their …

The British pop superstar Adele is not on tour in Brazil at the moment, but her absence was deeply regretted last week in Rio de Janeiro – not at a major festival like Rock in Rio or a

mega-concert like Madonna’s at Copacabana Beach

More than 10,000 serving in the armed forces are “not medically deployable”, according to figures from the Ministry of Defence .

The defence minister, Alistair Carns, revealed in a written parliamentary question that throughout the military, 99,560 service members are medically fully deployable, with 14,350 having limited deployability and 13,522 …

The bar is said to be appropriately high, but there have been 24 marches banned by a home secretary following a police request in the past 30 years under section 13 of the 1986 Public Order Act.

Two of those prohibited had been organised by “anti-capitalist groups” and one was …

UK housebuilder Vistry has issued its third profit warning in three months, in a year-end blow to the construction company that sent its shares to a two-year low.

The business, which was relegated from the FTSE 100 share index on Monday, now expects annual adjusted pre-tax profit of just £250m, …