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Rob Walker (in yellow) has completed his journey from John O’Groats to Land’s End in memory of four absent friends (Rob Walker)
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Commentator completes charity challenge down length of UK in memory of friends

Olympic broadcaster Rob Walker ran and cycled from John O’Groats to Land’s End in 19 days to commemorate four absent friends.
Jun 23, 2023
UK

Titan submersible victims ‘drawn to explore’, says club president

Mark Hannaford, Explorers Club member, shared a text which Hamish Harding sent to him before the dive began in Titan.
Jun 22, 2023
UK

Graeme Souness completes charity swim across English Channel

Graeme Souness has raised more than £1 million for Debra UK, a charity which supports those affected by epidermolysis bullosa

Jun 19, 2023
UK

Tennis player with congenital limb difference ‘confident’ thanks to prosthetic

Joanie Melady, a nine-year-old tennis player, has just played in her first tennis tournament, where she won the doubles match.
Jun 18, 2023
UK

Social housing activist compelled to decline MBE as crisis ‘should not exist’

Kwajo Tweneboa, known online as Kwajo Social Housing, said he was offered to become an MBE last month but made the decision to decline the title.
Jun 17, 2023
UK

Ex-music teacher ‘over the moon’ after charity single leads to OBE

Paul Harvey, 83, has raised more than £1.5 million for dementia services.
Jun 17, 2023
Politics

Covid bereaved widow feels ’empty’ after Johnson partygate denial findings

Fran Hall, whose husband died three weeks after the couple were married in 2020, said some people will ‘never recover’.
Jun 15, 2023
UK

Killed Nottingham school caretaker an amazing and kind man, says former pupil

Kaleigh Wylie attended the River Leen School in the early 2000s when Ian Coates was the caretaker.
Jun 14, 2023
UK

Explosions and smoke plumes in Leeds amid plastics factory fire

Locals in Bramley, Leeds, reported hearing explosions as a plume of black smoke could be seen overhead.
Jun 12, 2023
UK

Sailor circumnavigates all 262 islands around England and Wales in charity bid

Ken Fowler has spent the last four years sailing around all the islands in a dingy the ‘size of two bathtubs’.
Jun 8, 2023
UK

Birmingham named as ‘luckiest place to live’ in UK by National Lottery

Since The National Lottery began in 1994, it has created 205 millionaires in Birmingham – that’s one every seven weeks.
Jun 6, 2023
Environment

Cyclist to ride 3,000 miles on bamboo bike to highlight climate crisis

Kate Strong, who holds three world records in cycling, will ‘use sport as a way of connecting, not competing’, in her 90-day challenge.
Jun 5, 2023
UK

Baby donkey stolen from farm is reunited with mother and ‘ecstatic’ owners

A police investigation into the whereabouts of the stolen foal received ‘countless calls and online reports from members of the public’.
Jun 1, 2023
UK

Three-time cancer survivor to tackle Ford RideLondon with Royal Navy veteran dad

Judith Kippax, 59, will complete her first distance cycle challenge with her father, Brian Hygate, 85, the oldest participant in the 2023 event.
May 27, 2023
UK

Audience at Tina Turner musical describe ‘electric finale’ after news of death

Turner, famous for hits including The Best, Private Dancer and What’s Love Got To Do With It, died ‘peacefully’ on Wednesday.
May 25, 2023