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The dealine for our open submission guidelines passed on 31 August and the photo above is what we came back to after our summer holidays. If you sent in a ...

It's been a frustrating — and not unsurprising — week for Nottingham Forest. Despite months of chasing certain players, and Billy Davies' declaration of the need for 'four or five ...

Music, like fashion, very much revisits and rediscovers its past on a regular basis. Today’s long-forgotten genre is tomorrow’s flavour of the month and, most probably, in yesterday’s bargain bucket. ...

Some Girls’ Mothers played to a packed house at Hebden Bridge Town Hall on Sunday 1 August. Here are a few photographs. To see more, please visit the Some Girls’ ...

French actress and children's writer Cécile Aubry has died at the age of 81.Her best known creation was the book Belle et Sébastien, about a young boy and his mountain ...

The bravery of Staff Sergeant Brett Linley - named this morning as the bomb disposal expert killed on Saturday - has been revealed by Lt Col Gerald Strickland.He has spoken ...

It's been another tragic week for British troops in Afghanistan - and their families and friends back home.Eight more tribute pages have been added to the Heroes of Afghanistan section ...

M Y Alam‘s paper ‘Identity politics and the conditions of production: Reflections on writing Short Stories’, which he recently presented at the 11th International Conference on the Short Story in ...

The sister of former Manic Street Preachers guitarist Richey Edwards hasn’t lost hope of finding the troubled star.Richey went missing in February 1995 and is widely believed to have committed ...

Trooper James Leverett, who died in Afghanistan on Monday, was expecting his first child.The Ministry of Defence confirmed the death of the Royal Dragoon Guards soldier this morning.Trooper Leverett’s girlfriend ...

As the German national side prepare for their World Cup semi-final against Spain tomorrow, it seems a fitting time to remember former captain and World Cup-winner Herbert Erhardt.He died on ...

The sad news that the grande dame of British literature, Dame Beryl Bainbridge, died this morning aged 75 has sparked a debate on the Guardian website about which was her ...

The MoD have confirmed that a Royal Marine was killed in Afghanistan yesterday, 1 July, 2010.

Listeners to this morning's breakfast show on BBC 5live will have heard presenter Nicky Campbell pay an emotional tribute to his childhood friend and later work colleague the broadcaster Alan ...

A lottery winner who pumped his jackpot money into his beloved football club has died.Paul Bristow and his wife Thea hit the headlines in 2004 when they won £15 million ...

A man who killed a taxi driver while trying to commit the ‘perfect murder’ has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.Colin Cheetham (right) was sentenced yesterday at Nottingham Crown ...

The Ministry of Defence has announced the name of the British bomb disposal expert killed in Afghanistan at the weekend.Corporal Jamie Kirkpatrick was fatally wounded in a small gun battle ...

The man who brought glam rockers Kiss to the world has died.Bill Aucoin, who was 66, spotted the make-up and leather-clad group’s musical and marketing potential at an early show ...

Waiting for England to prove me wrong, I held back on writing anything that might look foolish within days of posting. But it's clear from their inept performance at the ...

Tributes have been flooding in to award-winning and prolific playwright and screenwriter Alan Plater who died from cancer on Friday.He had moved to the city of Hull as a youngster ...