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When the family of Roger Leadbeater, a 74-year-old man stabbed to death while walking his dog yards from his home in Sheffield, went to lay flowers at the scene two days later, they were met with a horrifying sight.

“Nobody had cleaned the scene. It was the most barbaric thing …

After securing a win inside three days in a howling gale, the series victory over New Zealand also claimed with a Test match to spare, Ben Stokes was blown away himself. “Quite phenomenal,” was the England captain’s reaction to

the monstrous 323-run scoreline

Arab states will seek to avert the threat of a reignited Syrian civil war by starting an open dialogue with all the forces on the ground to ensure any transition is inclusive of all Syrians regardless of ethnicity, Qatar’s foreign ministry has said.

Majed al-Ansari, Qatar’s foreign affairs ministry spokesperson, …

“Everyone remembers their first Nokia,” says Mark Mason, who joined the telecoms company’s design team back in its 1990s heyday. “When you say the name, it evokes a memory.”

This is not as hyperbolic as it sounds – in 1998, the Finnish consumer electronics company was the bestselling phone brand …

A second man has died in Storm Darragh after his vehicle was hit by a falling tree, police have confirmed, as weather warnings remain in place across the UK.

There were gusts of nearly 100mph in some parts of the country on Saturday and more than a quarter of a …

Migrant rights groups have warned that British residents could still be barred from returning from abroad because of the switch to digital visas, despite the government extending the deadline by three months.

The

Home Office announced last week

Right on cue, just as his mum is explaining how the unexpected sight of him instantly made everything bearable when confronted by more Olympic heartache, Tommy pipes up on the baby monitor; the squawks of a premature wake from the morning nap.

“Sorry, I’ll have to stick a dummy …

The rebels who have

swept through Syria

Both have been entrenched in the north-west. They launched the shock offensive on 27 November with …

Crisis averted. Panic stations vacated. All units stand down. Australian cricket followers were hitting every big red button they could find after India handed out a hammering in Perth, but the Australian team hit the big pink button in Adelaide. A different style of thrashing has levelled the five-match series. …

The relationship between the prime minister and chancellor is one of the most crucial in British politics. My old friend Nigel Lawson (chancellor 1983-89) certainly thought so, which is why it pained him and Margaret Thatcher when they fell out over whether the UK should put the pound into the …