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School’s out: Exeter Cathedral School could shut after ...

When the phone rings and it’s Daniel Hope, a useful starter to the conversation is to ask where in the world he’s ringing from. And though he’ll jokily reply, ‘I’m sometimes not so sure’, it isn’t muc

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IT was the same mother and child Gwen had smiled at earlier in the street, when she’d been heading for her afternoon shift at the charity shop. The only difference was, they both looked very tired. Th

Easter is like a sunrise in the Ionian. The villages and harbours start to wake after the winter. Bleary-eyed taverna owners open shop, sweeping terraces and cleaning their grills. The sound of drills

The last time most Libyans saw Saif al-Islam Gaddafi alive was in 2021. Muammar Gaddafi’s son, who for some time had been considered his heir apparent, had not been seen for years before, to the exten