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Willcocks was really a woman from a poor household in Devon. However, she forced her way into the public eye in 1817 by ...

A man has died after a migrant boat sank while attempting to cross the English Channel on Sunday morning. French officials ...

Up to 50% of twins develop their own communication pattern with one another. Most lose it over time, but for the Youlden ...

The education secretary has said she is "open-minded" about a ban on smacking children in England - but that there are no ...

Agnes was hanged - the first recorded to be executed for witchcraft in England. Dr Ryland-Epton has checked the dates - her ...

For world-renowned dancer Melissa Hamilton, who is returning to her home stage in Belfast, it is so much more. The ...

Wreckage from the crash was recently recovered by aviation archaeologist Jonny McNee, assisted by a group of pupils from ...

According to research by the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime, boats are typically transported by vans ...

Three people have died after an overloaded migrant boat sank in the English Channel off the coast of Calais on Wednesday ...

Based on a bestselling novel by Robert Harris, the Oscar-tipped film imagines what goes on behind the scenes of the secretive ...

Chelsea pair Lauren James and Lucy Bronze complete the English representation on the female list ... but across the world," ...