All news by author: Mike Ridley

THEY were the Prince Charles and Princess Diana of their day, the world lapping up every detail of their blossoming romance.And in part three of our s

THE clapping went on for seven long minutes but none of the 2,000 guests stood in the sun above Gold Beach begrudged a single second.They would have s

LIKE ghosts, they stand above the beaches where they fell.Exactly 1,475 soldiers, sailors and airmen under British command died on D-Day, June 6, 1944

EIGHTY years after they first sailed to Normandy to liberate France a tiny band of brothers returned yesterday.Former RAF Sergeant Bernard Morgan and

WITH the Normandy coast in the background, two 98-year-old veterans hurled a wreath into the sea where thousands of their comrades died 80 years ago.A

EIGHTY years ago they took part in the World War Two campaign that opened the path to peace and freedom in Europe.In the early summer of 1944, 450,000

WAR veteran Dorothea Barron got into a Spitfire cockpit today at the age of 99 as part of the countdown to D-Day 80.The former Women’s Royal Naval S

HAPPY Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder has revealed his wildest moments – including snorting cocaine from inside a COFFIN and a wild bender at the home

PREMIER League star Michail Antonio has revealed he is in therapy after starting to hate football.The £85,000-a-week West Ham and Jamaica striker, 34

A SIX-year-old girl was among the fashion judges on Ladies' Day at Aintree yesterday - as a reward for her bravery in battling cancer.And on Saturday

POT POURRI, Rodders, did Del Boy really fight against the Nazis?Hawk-eyed viewers of World War Two flick The Eagle Has Landed reckon he may have taken

GYPSY billionaire Alfie Best has enjoyed the highlife in recent years - with homes worth up to £7million, a fleet of supercars and a yacht worth £10

HE used to claim he was the “Hardest Geezer” in the Sussex seaside town of Worthing.Now Russ Cook has proved he is the hardest geezer in the world

WHEN ABBA strode on to the Brighton Dome stage in their silver platform boots on April 6, 1974, they were complete unknowns.But winning the Eurovision

IT was planned to be the biggest prisoner of war escape ever, with more than 200 men involved in a mass breakout.As it turned out, 76 British and Alli

MONEY raised for last year’s Poppy Appeal rose by £7million despite threats from pro-Palestine protesters.Volunteers stayed away from collecting at

TATE & LYLE this week axed its 140-year-old golden syrup logo after shoppers branded it “grim”.The image, created in 1881, showed a dead lion

IT is the picture that launched a legend.Fifty years ago next week, a young Arthur Edwards worked his first shift as a photographer for the “Soarawa

IN the drawing room of a country house near Portsmouth a petite French woman is dwarfed by a 14ft-high map.Madame Arlette Gondree, 84, is studying a t

HE’S the disabled lad with a voice to melt the coldest of hearts.Alfie Draper left a BBC ­audience in tears after his ­touchingperformance as the

BOB Bull had it all - with a personal fortune of £1.9billion.In spring last year Britain’s biggest bungalow builder joined The Times Rich List as t

A WAR hero who ignored orders during the D-Day landings to save seven lives has died aged 99.Royal Marines Cpl Jack Quinn was coxswain on a landing cr

WHILE the rest of darts wonderkid Luke Littler’s family were at Ally Pally last night to support him, his older brother was cheering him on from a W

THE cost-of-living crisis will ease in 2024 according to experts, but 62 per cent of Sun readers are worse off than they were last New Year.A worrying

SALES of John Lewis’s Venus flytrap plush toy — based on the store’s Christmas ad — flopped because it terrified kids.Staff were even moaned a