All news by author: Martin Fricker

Portuguese speaker Valdo Amissão Mendes Calocane completed his degree in August last year, having won a place as a mature student in 2019

Earlier this week a 31-year-old man conducted a spate of horrific attacks across the city of Nottingham, leaving three people dead and three others in hospital

Factory worker Wayne Birkett, 58, is fighting for his life in hospital after being struck by a stolen van during the Nottingham rampage which saw three people killed

More than 2,000 students gathered at a heartbreaking vigil at the university’s main campus to remember the pair yesterday afternoon

A man and woman who were among those killed in the attack lived in the same halls of residence and were students at the University of Nottingham, a friend has said

Beverley raced to help her mum, 85-year-old retired cook Lucille Downer, as the vicious and crazed dogs attacked her as she sat in her own back garden in Rowley Regis, West Midlands

Two women were put into marked police cars in Nottingham as armed police in balaclavas swooped with the centre of the city shut off amid investigations into three deaths

A handful of players have booked private jets for loved ones, but most WAGs and friends will be on the Emirati royal's private jet

Alfred Swinscoe disappeared from the Pinxton Miners Arms in the pit village of Pinxton, Derbys, in 1967 after going outside to use a toilet, and his vanishing remaining a mystery for decades

Clinical trials for systems that can detect cancers in air exhaled by patients are under way - they could transform the fight against cancers of stomach, pancreas and colon

Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann think they have a good chance of proving Christian Bruckner's VW camper van was at the reservoir

Some of the communes on the western Algarve have a seedy underbelly of drugs and crime, and it is in that secretive nomadic world that the key to unlock the mystery of Madeleine's disappearance may lie

New searches for missing Madeleine McCann have this week begun in Portugal, 16 years after the British girl went missing on a family holiday at the Praia da Luz parish

German paedophile Christian Brueckner, 45 – the prime suspect in the case – described the reservoir, Barragem do Arade, as his “little paradise” and he is believed to have lived there for a time in a motorhome

Steve Goodwin scratched the card outside the Co-op in Holsworthy, Devon, while waiting for his tea at a neighbouring kebab shop and wept with joy when he saw he'd won

Beer company directors were so impressed with the teenager's concoctions they offered him an apprenticeship, making him one of the youngest brewers in the country

The previously unseen images offer a glimpse of day-to-day life for troops in the ­secretive special forces unit

Ex-soldier and armed robber Chris Zietek charged up to £15,000 for the dodgy documents. He teamed up with Anthony Beard - and one of Beard's clients was Stephen Lawrence murder suspect

The day after the UK hosted the Eurovision song contest on behalf of Ukraine, President Zelensky visited Germany for the first time since the war

Madeleine McCann vanished from her parents' holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, in May 2007, and ever since they have continued to hope she is alive and will be reunited with them one day

Its driver was able to clamber out on to the road but the front seat passenger had no choice but to leap into the water to escape the wreckage

Kate and Gerry McCann say daughter Madeleine - who vanished in 2007 age three - is “still very much missed” as they mark the 16th anniversary of her disappearance

Oonagh Preece first went to a polling station in 1950 and has voted in every local and general election since. But the requirement for photo ID at polling stations now excludes her from democracy

Feline felon Harry comes home every night with swag swiped from neighbouring homes

Botched Tory legislation means that seven years after they first promised to ban zombie knives and machetes the horrific weapons are still available to criminals