People’s day of death 2024

Stood alone inside Derby Litchurch Lane at 07.30 on Saturday, August 2, day two of The Greatest Gathering, the biggest railway event in decades, it was eerily quiet. It wouldn’t be like this in 30, 60

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On July 30, 2025, tens of thousands of people gathered in Birmingham to watch Ozzy Osbourne’s funeral procession. This is what happened when The Prince Of Darkness came home for the final time

Often admired and adored during their lifetimes, the great composers would, you might think, enjoy similar reverence after death. Once the last rites had been read, surely these great cultural icons w

Our round-up of the funny, fascinating and unusual stories this fortnight

One of the highest profile crop markings was created on 10 July at Sturminster Marshall in Dorset, near Cerne Abbas and its giant: a massive spider motif made from overlapping circles on land belongin