Pancho Gonzales finally beat Charlie Pasarell 22-24 1-6 16-14 6-3 11-9. It is unlikely it will ever be beaten due to the ...

Paul Foot was a pioneering investigative journalist, whose campaigning style went hand-in-hand with a deeply-held belief in socialism. Shrewsbury School in the Fifties must have been one heck of a ...

Premiership footballer Lee Hughes has been jailed for six years for causing death by dangerous driving. The 28-year-old West Bromwich Albion striker had denied causing the death of father-of-four ...

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 ...

Ayr United are poised to sell their Somerset Park stadium and replace it with an £18m, 7,650-seat replacement in the town's Heathfield district. The Second Division club have secured a 20 acre site in ...

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 ...

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 ...

David Stocker's death from salt poisoning was sudden and unexpected. The nine-year-old had spent seven months suffering from a mystery illness that baffled doctors at both his local hospital in ...

The velodrome is the home of track cycling, where the speedsters of the sport fly around at up to 60mph. It hosts a variety of events - the individual pursuit, the points race, the madison and the ...

Solicitor Chris Bowen resigned when told by his employers they could not spare him the time to follow up the Rettendon murders case after his clients, Michael Steele and Jack Whomes, were convicted.

Rebels said a coalition of groups had launched the attack Rebels intent on overthrowing Chad's president have attacked the border town of Adre in far-eastern Chad. A coalition of four rebel groups ...

Michael Higdon scored three minutes into added time to earn Crewe a point. Steve Jones supplied the cross which was met by Higdon's firm header to cancel out Clinton Morrison's near-post header which ...