He may be languishing in jail but with his books flying off the shelves, Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas has joined an illustrious line of Turkish prison writers.

Mayor Sadiq Khan has urged the Government to support the capital as new forecast data from City Hall lays bare the devastation to London’s economic output from Covid-19.

British banking giant Barclays said Wednesday that net profit tumbled 42 percent in the first quarter, hit by the economic shock sparked by the deadly novel coronavirus.

Jimi Hendrix made his name in London, exploding onto the 1960s music scene with his mesmeric guitar playing, before his untimely death 50 years ago at the age of 27.

On Wednesday 27 October, on what was the Western Front just over a century ago, 38 year old Lance Corporal (L/Cpl) Robert Cook of 2nd Battalion The Essex Regiment, was finally laid to rest

It's a quintessentially British event: thousands of classical music lovers bobbing up and down at the Last Night of the Proms, waving the Union Flag, singing "Rule Britannia!" and "Land of Hope