4+ hour, 27+ min ago  (317+ words) The Timpson family received nearly "22 million in dividends last year after the high street stalwart reported record annual sales driven by strong demand for key-cutting and watch repairs. Sir John Timpson remains chairman after his son, Lord Timpson, stepped down…...

30+ min ago  (636+ words) I watched him for the whole 45-minute service. As he walked out under the organ screen I'd never seen such sad eyes on a man," says the 74-year-old Hugo Vickers, whose teenage obsession with Queen Elizabeth II and her highly…...

31+ min ago  (437+ words) Stephen Hawking was one of the world's most accomplished cosmologists and the author of a lucrative, if often unfinished, science bestseller. Yet newly discovered diaries, written in a secret code by his father, show that long before A Brief History…...

31+ min ago  (798+ words) Motorway junctions and slip roads should be fitted with specialised litter cameras to catch and fine motorists who throw rubbish, campaigners say. Under a plan designed to reduce the amount of waste on England's roads, the network of cameras would…...

58+ min ago  (606+ words) Scientists have identified 14 hallmarks of ageing, says the longevity expert Jean-Marc Lemaitre, with a slightly apologetic laugh. There were nine, then twelve, and now they've discovered two more, he explains, reeling them off, from chronic inflammation to shortening telomeres. Lemaitre…...

1+ hour, 21+ min ago  (683+ words) As a teenager during the Second World War, Harry Heasman worked in a factory making Mosquito bomber aircraft and gliders that were used in the D-Day landings." On Saturday, after a gap of 85 years, he took to the skies for…...

1+ hour, 19+ min ago  (574+ words) A letter to Zack Polanski says the party should seek a pledge on electoral reform in exchange for not fielding a candidate...

1+ hour, 20+ min ago  (72+ words) Crystal Palace 1 Arsenal 2: Mikel Arteta's side score 19th set-piece goal of season with only blemish being injury to Noni Madueke before Champions League final...

1+ hour, 23+ min ago  (702+ words) Families on benefits could be paid hundreds of pounds a month to stop them discouraging their teenage children from taking apprenticeships. Alan Milburn, the government's work tsar, is expected to warn this week that the benefits system is creating perverse…...

1+ hour, 52+ min ago  (629+ words) Scotland's water regulator has spent almost "400, 000 on employment law advice and settlements for former staff after criticism over its allegedly unacceptable use of public cash. The Water Industry Commission for Scotland (Wics) has reshaped its board and senior team since…...