Hero Argentinian father shot dead as he worked shift to raise cash for daughter’s birthday party

Hero Argentinian father is shot dead trying to wrestle gun from robber as he worked double shift at a store to raise cash for Down’s syndrome daughter’s birthday party Juan Manuel Garcia had been working a double shift at store in Pilar, Argentina The 52-year-old had been working to raise money to throw a 15th … Read more

Dividend Hero investment trusts 2021 revealed: Payouts rose as market collapsed

The Dividend Hero investment trusts that raised payouts even as firms hacked back… and some have lifted income since The Graduate hit the screens By Simon Lambert For This Is Money Published: 12:53 GMT, 15 March 2021 | Updated: 12:53 GMT, 15 March 2021 The Dividend Hero investment trusts that bucked the trend and increased … Read more

PETER HITCHENS: Falklands hero Lord West is ‘insulted’ by the Foreign Office

Britain’s most senior naval officer last night complained that the British Government had insulted him in a row over intelligence and security. Admiral Lord West of Spithead, 72, a decorated Falklands veteran, former First Sea Lord and a Security Minister under Gordon Brown, was denounced on the record by the Foreign Office for engaging in … Read more

Final resting place of lost Dunkirk hero is found after 80 years

The final resting place of a lost hero of Dunkirk has finally been found more than 80 years later. The body of Lieutenant Piers Edgcumbe, the son of the 6th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, had been missing ever since he and a colleague were killed during the German Blitzkrieg in May 1940. The Blitzkreig – … Read more

Myleene Klass says being a single mum to Ava and Hero means they have ‘insane connection’

Myleene Klass has reflected on being a single mother to her two daughters Ava and Hero, saying it has strengthened their bond and made them ‘bombproof’. The radio presenter, 42, chatted about raising her two girls after splitting from their father Graham Quinn in 2012 during a candid Q&A on Instagram on Thursday. As well as … Read more

The vaccine hero practice nurses who can’t get fair play over NHS pensions

Proudly smiling on graduation day at The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham in 1984, these four friends had their whole nursing careers ahead of them. Now, after serving the public for four decades, they have reached retirement age and can think about drawing on their hard-earned NHS pensions. But unlike her colleagues in the photograph, … Read more

The vaccine hero practice nurses who can’t get fair play over pensions

Proudly smiling on graduation day at The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham in 1984, these four friends had their whole nursing careers ahead of them. Now, after serving the public for four decades, they have reached retirement age and can think about drawing on their hard-earned NHS pensions. But unlike her colleagues in the photograph, … Read more

Olympic hero Dame Kelly Holmes reveals she last self-harmed when her mother died

Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes has revealed she resorted to self harming on the day her mother passed away three years ago. The former middle distance runner, 50, from Pembury, said it was ‘the worst day of her life’ when her mother Pam Norman passed away in 2017 from myeloma, a form of blood cancer. … Read more

WWII diary of Home Guard hero details Swansea’s Three Nights’ Blitz

A shocking diary of a man who helped to put out fires during the Nazis’ bombing campaign in the Second World War has been digitised for the first time.  Swansea firewatcher James R John, 58, wrote in his diary during what became known as the Three Nights’ Blitz on the Welsh city in February 1941. … Read more

Astrazeneca boss Pascal Soriot is the £90m vaccine hero

Astrazeneca boss Pascal Soriot scooped £15.4million in pay last year – taking his earnings to almost £90million since he took the reins at the British drug maker nine years ago. The chief executive’s 2020 package, his biggest yet, is up from £15.3million the previous year. It comes after his decision to join forces with Oxford … Read more