All news by author: Adam Aspinall

Jack Andrews and Thomas Costello are both 6ft 4in, and will tower over the rest of the jockeys, who average 5ft 2in. Jack made his debut last year but the horse failed to finish

Lieutenant Norman Rose was just 18 when he landed ashore to fight to take Port en Bessin from 4,000 Nazis in June 1944. On November 1, 1944, he badly injured his leg

Items including Colin Firth's famous shirt and costumes from the films Sleepy Hollow and Finding Neverland were sold for eye-watering prices at auction

Charlie Rowley, 49, almost died at Salisbury District Hospital after he and girlfriend Dawn Sturgess were poisoned in Amesbury, Wiltshire, six years ago

Body parts belonging to Simon Shotton were found strewn over a two square mile area of Boscombe, Bournemouth, including limbs discovered by a shocked member of the public on a sea front

Muhammad Ali's torn glove that was damaged during his epic clash with Henry Cooper at Wembley in 1963 has emerged for sale and is expected to spark a bidding war

Eight-year-old Mason was rejected thousands of times by potential new owners after being abandoned in 2019 - however he has now been adopted

The family of Simon Parkes, who was 18 when he vanished without trace from HMS Illustrious in 1986 in Gibraltar, have spent four decades looking for closure - and are a step closer

Allan Grimson, known as the 'Frankenstein killer', could be freed from jail this week as the family of one of his suspected victims branded him a 'danger to society'

Charlcombe Toad Rescue Group hopes to help an estimated 2,500 amphibians reach their breeding lake in a valley below. Charlcombe Lane in Bath will be shut until March 25

One mum waiting to collect her child said the incident at Hounsdown School in Totton, Hampshire, was 'horrendous' after two men were found in the luggage compartment of a coach

Popular Welsh pub the Vulcan was built almost two centuries ago and stars, including Rhys Ifans and James Dean Bradfield, supported calls for it to be saved after it closed a decade ago

The long line along Ashley Court in Bristol began forming early in the morning as locals tried to get NHS treatment - with cops called to manage the massive crowd outside the new practice

There were eight XL Bully dogs in the house where 68-year-old Esther Martin was mauled to death on Sunday as she visited her grandson who witnessed the terrifying attack

Dr David Marjot first trained as a doctor way back in 1952 but the nonagenarian is keeping his brain sharp by becoming the oldest person to ever graduate from Kingston University

Esther Martin, 68, was visiting the house of the man who owned the dogs in Jaywick, Essex, to see her 11-year-old grandson, who was in his care when the incident took place.

Essex Police were called to a property near Clacton-on-Sea shortly after 4pm on Saturday where they found Esther Martin, 68, seriously wounded before she died at the scene

The grieving family of Esther Martin, who was killed in a dog attack in Jaywick, Essex yesterday, says the animals' owner ignored warnings that they were dangerous

The grandson of Esther Martin came out "shouting for help" as two dogs attacked and killed his grandmother in Jaywick, Essex where a man has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous dog offences

A man has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous dogs offences after a horrific attack killed grandmother Esther Martin, 68, in Jaywick, Essex, police have announced

A 44-year-old man accused of stabbing to death two teenage boys – 15-year-old Mason Rist and 16-year-old Max Dixon – in Bristol on Saturday has been charged with murder

Schoolboys Mason Rist, 15, and Max Dixon, 16, were stabbed to death in the middle of a suburban Bristol street in what police fear was a case of mistaken identity

According to the Turkish Ministry of Health, the average fatality rate from cosmetic surgery in recent years has been roughly 1 in 3,000 procedures - but despite the dangers thousands still go under the knife abroad

Royal Navy Rating Simon Parkes, from Bristol, was last seen drinking at a pub in Gibraltar after the ship the 18-year-old was serving on, HMS Illustrious, docked

Detectives are following a new line of enquiry in the disappearance of Able Seaman Simon Parkes, 18, who went missing 37 years ago, by digging up a car park in Gibraltar