This December marks 15 years since the murder of Joanna Yeates, a 25-year-old landscape architect who lived in Bristol with her boyfriend, Greg Reardon. Joanna was reported missing six days before Chr

It was a hot day in one of the hottest and most uncomfortable summers of recent years. I was standing in a small upstairs bedroom of a house on the outskirts of a modern estate in the borough of South

Reading Laura Mauro’s “Japanese Toilet Ghosts” [FT459:30-35], reminded me of a less well known fear in the Western world, which –according to the modern rabbinical Internet resource site TheTorah.com

Jewish teenager who volunteered for the Dutch resistance ...

While the original National Folklore Survey from the 1960s was unscientific and open ended, simply asking random people “what do you know to be true?”, its 21st century successor is a very different b

This week’s crime story...