Former EastEnders actor Mike Reid, who played wheeler dealer Frank Butcher in the BBC soap, died at the age of 67. Reid was a real-life Londoner, born in Hackney, East London, in 1940. A few months ...

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They are usually employed in a formation that includes just three players in midfield. This allows the wing-backs to supply all of the width in the team. Because their job is to attack, there will ...

MPs are to vote on whether to hold a referendum on scrapping Britain's first past the vote electoral system in favour of the Alternative Vote (AV). If AV had been used in previous general elections ...

Six men who killed a doorman and wounded three others when they tried to force their way into a nightclub have each been jailed for life. Ishfaq Ahmed, 24, was shot in the back as he attempted to stop ...

Former schoolchildren who sang on Pink Floyd's 1979 single Another Brick in The Wall have begun action for unpaid royalties. Royalties expert Peter Rowan said he was appealing on behalf of one former ...

Cricket Tweets What are tweets? Desperately sad to learn of death of Rory Morrison (48) A familiar TMS Radio4 voice for many years. Lovely man @Aggerscricket 3 mins ago; When Fred ...

Cricket is basically a simple game - score more than the opposition. Two teams, both with 11 players, take it in turns to bat ...

Stefan Pakeerah was beaten and stabbed to death by Warren Leblanc, 17, but the motive, say police, was robbery. Leicestershire police have confirmed a copy of the game was found, but in Stefan's' ...

The terms "old" and "new" have been played around with in the cut and thrust of this election campaign but exactly how old are our current crop of political parties? The BBC's Elena Egawhary has taken ...

Troops in the Royal Dragoon Guards shot a home video at their Al Faw base of their version of the video sung by Tony Christie and mimed by Peter Kay. They e-mailed it to Army friends in London, but so ...