Britain’s oldest Second World War veteran, Donald Rose, has died aged 110. The D-Day veteran, who was born on Christmas Eve 1914, is believed to have been Britain’s oldest man. Erewash Borough Council ...

Olympic 800 metres champion Keely Hodgkinson has withdrawn from next Saturday’s London Diamond League meet as she continues to recover from a hamstring issue.

Amanda Anisimova and Iga Świątek are in the women's singles final with Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz set for battle in the men's.

It was two days before Christmas in 1968 when a photographer from the Southend Standard – the Echo’s predecessor – visited a 23-year-old Miss (now Dame) Helen Mirren at her home in Leigh to take some ...

Russia fired 597 drones and decoys, with 26 cruise missiles, into Ukraine overnight, Ukraine’s air force said.