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It’s a well-known true story of extreme survival: the plane that took off from Montevideo in Uruguay in October 1972 on its way to Santiago in Chile. On board – 45 people, including a rugby team.
Steve Thompson is a former England rugby player and he played in every England match during the 2003 Rugby World Cup. But today, age 43, Steve remembers nothing about that final. And in 2020 he was diagnosed with early-onset dementia – and probable chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
Jon Snow
London’s elevated six lane Westway races past Grenfell, and in the hundreds of times I had driven past in both directions, I had never given it a thought. A bland landmark. Never wondered who lived there, nor with what this tall building was clad.
Gary Gibbon
Professor Jim Dornan is a world renowned gynaecologist living on Northern Ireland’s “Gold Coast,” the prosperous stretch of County Down peppered with picture window residences. He’s one of Northern Ireland’s great and the good. He’s celebrated in his field. He’s from a unionist background. As it happens, he’s also father of the actor Jamie Dornan,…
Parliament has published its register of MPs’ financial interests for the first time since the election. An analysis by FactCheck shows that 123 MPs earn extra money by renting out homes and private property. Landlord MPs account for almost a fifth of all MPs. Their properties include houses, flats, farms, holiday cottages and shops. The MPs include chancellor…
The Manchester attack has led to security reviews all over the country. The Metropolitan Police is reinforcing armed officer patrols in London and is reviewing measures in place for this weekend’s football and rugby cup finals. The Prime Minister also announced that the intelligence services are reassessing threat levels.
Gary Gibbon
On Theresa May’s flight to New York one official on her team joked he’d issued instructions that Boris Johnson was to be “rugby tackled” if he looked like he was leaving their section of the plane to mingle with the media.
Were my father and grandfather alive, while regretting the way it’s been done, both of them would have raised a glass to the end of deep coal mining.
Alex Thomson
All Big Sport seems hellbent on killing the occasion by deadening the atmosphere with Blastmusic whenever they can.
As the Labour leadership election dust begins to settle and the future of New Old Labour is set, Islington North constituents discuss Jeremy Corbyn’s work as their MP for 32 years.
Three unions suspend planned strikes on London Underground, with Unite calling the move a “gesture of goodwill”.
Labour leadership hopeful Yvette Cooper slams rival Jeremy Corbyn for his policies, telling potential voters that the ‘battle was on for the soul of the party’.
Pluto suffered one of the biggest demotions in history when it was downgraded from the solar system’s ninth planet to a lowly Kuiper Belt Object. If it’s not a planet, what is it? And who decides?
Gary Gibbon
David Cameron ended up getting the prestigious 11pm slot to speak for about 5 minutes about Britain’s renegotiation. A source said the Prime Minister didn’t notice if anyone had left the room.
Al-Shabaab militants killed 148 non-Muslim students in the northern Kenyan town of Garissa last month. Jamal Osman finds that a growing number of Christian residents are now fleeing the community.