One day in 1936, the barrister Clifford Mortimer banged his head on the door frame of a London taxi and was immediately struck blind. He would never be able to see again. Then in his early 50s, he nev

Q My ancestor, Charles Hayes, was born on 6 October 1700 in Harrow on the Hill to Charles Hayes and Ann Ewster. He attended University College Cambridge and, described as “one of the Gentlemen of the

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He evaded justice for years, spinning an intricate web of lies, but was the truth finally going to catch up with Nicholas Rossi?

On Thursday 11 October 1984, Conservative politician Norman Tebbit had good reason to feel satisfied. As trade and industry secretary, he had just delivered a rousing speech to the Conservative party

What began as a simple attempt to trace my paternal grandfather online has unfolded into a web of lost marriages, mysterious deaths and unexpected headlines,” says Mike Medland. Born in 1949 in India