All news by author: Martin Fricker

The owner of the kitchenware, who had no idea of their true value, was given them by a man she used to help around the house and when she died her relatives planned to donate them to charity

Carol Clarke disappeared in March 1983 and was she was last getting into a car. Her body was discovered by a dog walker in reeds near a canal two days later

Desperate Richard Howe, 58, tried to book an appointment in Ely, Cambridgeshire, but was quoted £1,000 for private treatment... so he ended up having the work done in Kyiv instead

A man suffered facial burns after his jacket was set alight as he walked home from a mosque in Birmingham on Monday, just weeks after an 82-year-old was set on fire after leaving a mosque in London

Mohammed Rayaz remains in hospital suffering from burns to his face, hands and chest after being attacked just yards from his family’s terraced home in Birmingham on Monday night

Besotted Len Allbrighton, then 19, got down on one knee to propose to 18-year-old Jeanette Steer in 1963. But their hopes were dashed when Jeanette’s parents found out

Lieutenant William Pilch was allowed to join the navy aged 10 as his family were friends with Admiral Lord Nelson, and was later appointed a Naval Knight

Former RAF serviceman Steve Glover, 73, already has his eye on a luxury motorhome and he can't wait to revisit the place he fell in love with while serving there in the forces

Hewick cost just £800 but has already earned trainer John “Shark” Hanlon nearly £400,000 in winnings - and that figure could increase even further

World's lankiest horse-racer is set to make his Festival debut - and he'll be competing against his sister, who measures 5ft 7in, in the final race of the day

The trees were felled in Plymouth, Devon after the go-ahead was given hours earlier by the city council - but contractors were later forced to stop after an injunction was issued

Eve Smith and Darcy Ross, both 21, and Rafel Jeanne-Actie, 24, were killed when their car careered off a slip road on the A48 near Cardiff, with two others rushed to hospital

Sophie Russon, 20, Eve Smith, 21, Darcy Ross, 21, Rafel Jeanne, 24, and Shane Loughlin, 32, were travelling in Volkswagen Tiguan which was later found in the St Mellons area of Cardiff

Rafel Jeanne, 24, was killed in a horror crash in the St Mellons area of Cardiff, after police hunted for five missing friends who vanished on a night out on Friday

Gwent Police have confirmed three of the five people reported missing after a night out in South Wales have tragically been found dead after a suspected car crash

Teachers are striking over a long-running pay dispute, with one protester saying they had a student complaining the classroom was too cold during their mock exams

Dutch model Sharlely Kerssenberg, 46, who is in the process of divorcing the tennis legend, claims he stopped paying child support for their son Amadeus

Hannah Hall lives her life as if it were the 1940s, as she wears vintage clothes and uses a period cooker to cook wartime food on her retro cooker after hearing stories from her grandfather

Celebrity chef Tom Kerridge is selling a fish pie - called the The Family Saffron Fish Pie - through a meal kit delivery service, with the product's £60 price equating to around £15 per portion

Det Chief Supt Leonard ‘Nipper’ Read compiled meticulous reports as he tried to find evidence to bring down the notorious East End brothers Ronnie and Reggie

A message from Alice's grieving mum and relatives was shared on a fundraiser launched yesterday to help give the "most special and beautiful send off this little princess deserves"

Fire chiefs are offering service members £1,000 a shift to cross the picket lines during upcoming strikes for 'resilience fire cover' in a move the union slammed as an 'insult'

Four-year-old Alice Stones became the latest child to die in a vicious dog attack on Tuesday, with at least four children killed by dogs in the UK since 2020

Around 100 people gathered to mourn the loss of the youngster, named locally as Alice Stones, at a church near to the Milton Keynes house last night

The Mirror is demanding answers to the national complacency around dog attacks after the horrific death of Alice Stones, the latest British child to be mauled to death