Daily Express - May 02, 2025

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May 02, 2025

OUR HEROES CAN HONOUR FALLEN FRIENDS

Express campaign wins veterans free travel for memorial trips overseas

3 mins

May it be the first of many!

JASMINE Mort is a shore-fire queen of the sandcastle as she basks in record-breaking May Day sunshine with a cooling ice cream.

1 min

Statue to Vera Lynn 'has PM's support'

SIR Keir Starmer has backed a new statue of Dame Vera Lynn at Dover, whose cliffs the wartime singer famously celebrated.

1 min

Labour brace for polls pummelling

SIR Keir Starmer faces an election drubbing today as voters lash out at his dismal start as Prime Minister.

2 mins

US minerals deal is 'little' victory for Kyiv... and a step to peace

UKRAINIANS last night hailed Kyiv's minerals deal with the US as a step in the right direction to lasting peace.

2 mins

Bungler Waltzes off after bomb chat leak

THE bungling US security adviser who accidentally added a journalist to a group chat discussing classified war plans has stepped down from the post, Donald Trump said last night.

1 min

At age 10, Charlotte has maturity and inner strength...like the late Queen, her great-grandmother

As the third in line to the throne today celebrates reaching 'tweenhood' (with a slice of mum Kate's home-baked cake, no doubt), royal experts reveal her special role within the Wales family

6 mins

Dogged by Reform, the Tories need to do a good deal fast

LOCAL election results today might be dismissed by the losers as unimportant because they only reflect the views of voters in 23 councils and six mayoral posts in England - but don't be fooled. This is a transformational moment in British election history. We are experiencing a once-in-a-century realignment of our politics.

3 mins

No price can be put on debt we owe veterans

VETERANS who want to honour fallen comrades in Europe will have their costs covered by the Government after our campaign helped force a U-turn.

1 min

Two primary parties plagued by ineptitude

A MOOD of panic is running through the clogged arteries of Britain's moribund political establishment.

3 mins

LETTING ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK COULD BE STRAW BREAKING BRITAIN'S BACK

IN A REPORT published last month, the Mental Health Foundation called for an end to the current ban on asylum seekers working.

1 min

William Hickey

Bringing the gossip since 1933

2 mins

Down-to-earth Royal couples grow together

THE King and Queen showed a deep-rooted friendship with Swedish royalty as they planted a gifted oak tree together.

1 min

Deborah was force of nature, says King

THE mother of bowel cancer campaigner Dame Deborah James says her daughter left a lasting legacy - by getting teenagers to talk about their poo.

1 min

Second Andrew accuser: Giuffre's 'suicide' could have been any of us...

THE second woman who accused Prince Andrew of sexual misconduct has spoken out following the suspected suicide of Virginia Giuffre — and said any victims of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal could have faced the same tragic fate.

1 min

Sycamore accused: 'I was framed Gap by someone stirring the pot'

A MAN accused of chopping down the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree told police he was being framed by someone as part of a feud.

2 mins

Harrods in cyber alert

HARRODS has become the third big retailer to be targeted by hackers.

1 min

'Poison-plot' wife 'rarely' played host

THE estranged husband of a woman who served her family a poisonous mushroom lunch says it was “very rare” for her to host social gatherings.

1 min

Women's teams ban for trans footballers

TRANSGENDER footballers will be barred from women's teams, the sport's governing body said yesterday - as cricket bosses also looked set to impose a ban.

1 min

Ministers told to make social care reform their 'priority'

CAMPAIGNERS have urged ministers to make repairing Britain's social care system a “priority”.

1 min

Amanda and Alan's Spanish hovel will be a casa banker...

AMANDA Holden and Alan Carr have sold the Spanish slum they renovated for their BBC One show for £208,355.

1 min

Vets facing a price cap amid fears of ‘rip-offs’

VETS could face a temporary price cap on medicines they offer as a watchdog investigates fears that pet owners are being ripped off.

1 min

Hoovering up plastic waste from beaches

AN INDUSTRIAL vacuum cleaner is being used to guzzle up plastic nurdles that are washing up on beaches following a collision between a tanker and cargo ship in March.

1 min

Engelbert on karaoke high note

SINGER Engelbert Humperdinck credits karaoke for keeping his music going as he marks his 89th birthday today.

1 min

I bend over backwards for others at age 100

EIGHTY years ago Dorothea Barron taught soldiers how to use Morse code and semaphore before the D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France.

1 min

AI Agatha gives tips on writing

Literary great...Christie

1 min

Brit Ethel is world's oldest person at 115

ROBUST Ethel Caterham has been crowned the world's oldest person — and says the reason she's reached the ripe age of 115 is: \"I do what I like!\"

2 mins

Face of York gladiator fatally mauled by lion

A FORENSIC artist has put a face to the Roman gladiator mauled by a lion in York.

1 min

£4k legal bill for cockerel's 3am 'torture'

A PENSIONER has been ordered to pay nearly £4,000 after his noisy pet cockerel \"tortured\" neighbours by waking them as early as 3am.

1 min

Boy, 14, arrested after two teens hurt in knife attack

A TEENAGER has been arrested after a 15-year-old boy and 14-year-old girl were stabbed outside a shop.

1 min

'Deliberate act ended skydiver Jade's life'

Mad for the sport...Jade headline

1 min

British mum, 65, killed in 'frenzied' stabbing at French home

Hunt for killer after victim suffered 'ferocious violence'

2 mins

WHY THE MAN WITH NO NAME NEARLY WASN'T CALLED CLINT

His first casting as a leading man in Spaghetti Western classic A Fistful Of Dollars made Eastwood a cinematic icon. But 60 years on, as the film is re-released on Blu-ray, why director Sergio Leone wanted someone else to play his charismatic (and taciturn) drifter

7 mins

Send Over Salt!

Urgent appeal after RSPCA staff use three tons to treat seven injured seals

1 min

Mozzies in Shetland invasion

MOSQUITOES have been discovered in the most northerly part of the UK.

1 min

300-year-old mummy was man of the cloth...and twigs and flax

THIS mummy has been identified as a vicar, thanks to the unusual way he was embalmed using linen nearly 300 years ago.

1 min

Boss sacked after slapping Emmerdale star's bottom

AN EXECUTIVE at a leading food company has lost an employment tribunal after it heard he slapped the bottom of ex-Emmerdale actress Gemma Oaten on stage at an industry black-tie event.

1 min

Chop! Chop! ...if you want to buy Fanny's kitchen

FANNY Cradock's home - familiar to millions of TV viewers as the location for her cookery show - has gone on sale for £5million.

1 min

Lover fights siblings over tycoon’s £18m health drink fortune

THE partner of a health drinks tycoon is fighting his three siblings in court over who inherits his £18million fortune.

1 min

Billy tackles Idol vices that nearly killed him

He's come a long way from the Roxy Club.

1 min

Martin's out of his shell

Mike Ward previews tonight’s TV

2 mins

A big hit with village people

THE pros and cons of moving to a retirement village or apartments appear to boil down to two things: on the plus side, you'll be living among like-minded people of a similar vintage but on the minus side, there are high service charges and it can be difficult to sell age-restricted flats.

2 mins

Soaring Rolls-Royce boasts tariff-busting results

ROLLS-Royce expects to defy Donald Trump's tariffs mayhem to hit its forecast underlying profit of nearly £3billion in 2025.

1 min

Post Office in banking deal to keep high street cash flowing

THE Post Office has reached a five-year banking deal with lenders and building societies to keep cash services running amid a continued retreat of banks from the high street.

1 min

BUICK BACKS COURT

But Will warns Guineas pick may be wrong

1 min

WORLD OF SPORT Lando returns to square marked Go

LANDO NORRIS has vowed to follow up his brilliant maiden victory in Miami last season by winning again this year and reigniting his world title challenge.

1 min

ROCKET HOPING A CUE SWITCH WILL DO TRICK

O'Sullivan will revert to a brass ferrule

2 mins

Ronnie gambles in bid to ferrule world

RONNIE O’SULLIVAN took an emergency trip to a cue doctor last night in a desperate bid to keep his World Championship alive.

2 mins

HAALAND desperate to make final

MAN CITY v WOLVES 8PM, SKY SPORTS

1 min

FOREST DREAM HAS A STING IN THE TAIL

Euro charge hurt as Bees pounce on poor defending

1 min

Angebball in full flight as slick Spurs sense final

POSTECOGLOU EYES BILBAO AFTER COMFORTABLE WIN

2 mins

Outmanoeuvring the wily Desert Fox, with help from Bletchley Park

IN May 1940, Captain Peter Vaux fought bravely in the first British tank battle of the war - seeing his friends killed at Arras as they tried to stop Rommel's panzers sweeping through northern France towards the coast. Two years later, as the intelligence officer for 7 Armoured Division at the battle of Alamein, he was able to submit a report containing a sentence he'd been longing to write: \"The enemy is now in full retreat.\"

6 mins

The SAS: 'A new type of force... to extract the very maximum out of surprise and guile'

David Stirling was an unorthodox officer, and the elite special forces unit he created in the deserts of North Africa was equally extraordinary. They would emerge from the night to create mayhem then melt into darkness. Soon even Rommel knew their name

7 mins

The forgotten war

Even Churchill neglected to give sufficient weight to the fighting in the Far East in his magisterial account of the Second World War. Not fair, writes ROBERT LYMAN

4 mins

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