When the novelist Thomas Hardy died, his widow Florence burned all his letters and notebooks in the grounds behind their Dorset home. She refused to let even the gardener come near, when he ...

Actor Idris Elba has opened up about feeling ‘overwhelmed and angry’ while posting a passionate video urging people to put down their knives in 2019. The Luther star has been involved in the ...

Banning the sale of zombie knives is a positive step, but schools need to intervene earlier to help tackle the UK's knife crime crisis, says Idris Elba. The actor, 52, has spent the last year ...

Idris Elba says he ‘heard strange noise’s during his night in a South African prison to prepare for his Nelson Mandela role (Getty Images for Paramount Pictu) However, he still took value from ...

Protesters gathered outside the gates of an RAF station yesterday to oppose plans to fly US drones from the base. Demonstrators led by the Oxford Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), Drone ...

The hour-long film is fronted by the actor-cum-activist Idris Elba, whose vocal campaigning helped push the government into passing legislation banning machetes and serrated “zombie” knives ...

Used as a base for the Royal Air Force, and the United States Army Airforce, RAF Rivenhall was a base which stationed thousands of pilots. Operations which came from the Braintree base were ...

A Royal Air Force (RAF) Eurofighter Typhoon experienced a mid-flight emergency while flying over the North Sea, necessitating the jettisoning of its canopy on January 23, 2025. The aircraft, which ...

Generations of RAF aviators have attended this exercise, and it continues to evolve and reflect the threats and challenges faced on modern operations. Missions are conducted to the nearby Nevada Test ...

The canopy over the cockpit was jettisoned before the pilot came in to land at RAF Coningsby A fighter jet has landed safely after an "in-flight emergency", the RAF has said. The air force ...