Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
Michael Faraday, physicist who discovered electricity
Sir Ralph Richardson, actor
George Eliot, novelist
Max Wall, comedian
Thomas Sayers, Victorian boxer
Christina Rossetti, poet
Stella Gibbons, novelist
Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy buried in a lead coffin after being killed by radiation poisoning in 2006
David Cameron will today vow to take on the "scandal" of public drunkenness and alcohol abuse that costs the NHS £2.7 billion a year
A teenage court witness was given a £600,000 payout by the Crown Prosecution Service and Metropolitan Police after he was put at risk, it...
MPs are to visit the Falklands amid heightened tension between Britain and Argentina
A university that saw two students and a member of staff killed cycling in London last year has accused Boris Johnson of failing to act...
The Duchess of Cambridge's first Valentine's Day as a married woman was marked with roses, a card and a cupcake - but not from Prince...
The Government was braced for more bad news on the jobs front today with new unemployment figures expected to show another increase,...
The Bank of England is to give a clearer insight into how deep it expects the current downturn in the economy to sink
An RAF airman who died after being shot while on patrol in Afghanistan was a "true hero and shining star", his family said
Chancellor George Osborne defended his economic strategy as a fall in inflation finally brought mild relief to some from the tight squeeze...
At the luxury brand Burberry, Christopher Bailey has transformed a designer classic into must-have cool, as epitomised by the models Rosie...
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