As soon as I saw missile I thought ‘they got me, my mission is over’ | History | News
A pilot ejects (Image: Supplied) The F-117 Nighthawk looked like a black dart with a V-shaped tail. The world’s first Stealth fighter, many branded it invisible and invincible. Its secret state-of-the-art coating of radar-absorbent material, and angled airframe, made it hard for an enemy radar to lock on to. Yet flying his third mission of More...
The ‘curious damn contraption’ that has saved 7,694 lives (including mine) | History | News
One of Martin-Baker’s Gloster Meteor jets carries out a live ejection seat test (Image: John Nichol) The cocoon-like cockpit of the AW52 prototype jet was snug for a man of John “Jo” Lancaster’s imposing, More...
Murder In The Sun – Review of a cosy crime novel | Books | Entertainment
The resort itself is described in forensic detail through the eyes of all the main characters (and suspects) involved. There is sun, obviously. There is drink. There are murky ambitions and intentions. There More...
Poles apart: The explorer and the Express man | Books | Entertainment
Frederick Cook starred in a movie short (Image: Getty) It was one of the biggest stories of the new century. In September 1909, American explorer Frederick Cook returned from a two-year expedition during More...
Rolf Harris’ daughter’s book ‘explains behaviour’ of sex offender father | Books | Entertainment
Rolf Harris‘ daughter, Bindi Nicholls, reportedly drafted pages for a book titled “Living With A Pervert” where she lifted the lid on living with her elderly sex-offender father. Harris – More...
England books its place at number four in latest world reading rankings | Books | Entertainment
England has moved up to fourth place in global rankings for children’s reading. Previously, in 2016, the nation came joint eighth out of 50 countries. But it has improved despite disruption to education during More...
Bloodied in the Mediterranean: New history shows how the SAS survived | Books | Entertainment
Allied troops going ashore to liberate Sicily in November 1942. (Image: Getty) The wartime SAS may be remembered primarily for its daring desert raids in North Africa, not least thanks to the BBC’s recent More...
Baking pans and broomsticks: Bake Off star on fighting stereotypes of witches | Books | Entertainment
Helena Garcia aims to change witches stereotype (Image: ) Appearing on The Great British Bake Off in 2019, Helena Garcia’s gothic-looking cakes were memorably described by judge Prue Leith as “sinister More...
Censoring novels almost comical political correctness Rushdie | Books | Entertainment
The author of The Satanic Verses has said publishers re-editing the James Bond spy stories for reasons of political correctness “in light of today’s attitudes” are acting in a “remarkably alarming” More...
Charles wouldn’t be King with Iron Throne law but Grace Kelly relative | Books | Entertainment
King Charles III will be crowned the British monarch this weekend at the first Coronation in 70 years at Westminster Abbey. Yet if the UK had succession laws that skipped females like the Iron Throne in Game More...
