Standing proudly beside their friends and fellow soldiers, 46 men of the 8th Berkshire Regiment pose for a group photograph in May 1915. The sun was shining, their training almost complete and many were keen to see action for the first time. But within four months of this haunting picture at their training camp near Warminster, Wiltshire, they were fighting the Battle of Loos. By the end of the war, 19 of the brother officers had been killed, nine seriously wounded and the group had been scattered. When Andrew Tatham, 51, great-grandson of commanding officer Colonel Walton first saw this photograph, he vowed to uncover the men's stories. He spent 21 years tracking down surviving relatives and his book, A Group Photograph, has sold almost 5,000 copies by word of mouth.
Revealed: Adam Johnson's family were conned out of £170,000 by fraudster posing as a former MI6 agent who said he could unearth evidence to clear him of child sex charges
Adam Johnson's family made a stream of payments to 'former MI6 agent' Mark Hill-Wood (left), who promised he could unearth vital evidence in the former Sunderland star's favour. But the family did not know that the supposed specialist investigator was one of the country's most notorious fraudsters operating under his latest identity. The payments highlight the huge sums of money at stake as the £60,000-a-week player (inset), who is now starting a six-year jail sentence for intimately touching the teenager, fought his case. His parents, Dave and Sonia, are pictured (right).
- Heroes at the gates of hell: It's a haunting picture - a proud British regiment pose in the May sunshine in 1915. Weeks later, one in three was named dead. Now their colonel's great grandson has pieced together ALL their inspiring stories
- Revealed: Adam Johnson's family were conned out of £170,000 by a 'Walter Mitty' fraudster posing as a former MI6 agent who claimed he could unearth evidence to clear him of child sex charges
- Al-Qaeda release tribute video to London law graduate and teacher who was killed fighting in Syria
- 'We all worry about England's defence': Gary Lineker sparks Twitter outrage with 'distasteful' joke following terrorist attacks in Brussels
- Revealed: The BBC has paid an EXTRA £19,700 in legal bills to settle Clarkson's 'lazy Irish ****' bust-up with Top Gear producer
- Making millions: How TV chef James Martin built a lucrative culinary empire from his decade at the helm of Saturday Kitchen
- How Kate got more regal than the royals: As you'll hear on TV tomorrow, her voice is now plummier than Wills'. And that's just the start
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- Pupils as young as 14 turn to cannabis to counter the buzz of energy drinks after knocking back up to ten cans a day
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- Imam at Scotland's biggest mosque uses WhatsApp to praise an extremist who was executed for murder in Pakistan
- Families furious at Thorpe Park after super cheap 12p tickets for the new Derren Brown Ghost Train ride sell out BEFORE the tickets were supposed to go on sale
- Revealed: Man in White Brussels bomber 'is most-wanted Paris attack suspect Mohamed Abrini' who travelled to Britain last year
- Armed police shoot man 'carrying a bomb in a rucksack after he takes a woman hostage' at Brussels tram station as they swoop on terror suspects linked to 'imminent attack in France'
- Belgium turns on immigrants after Brussels bloodbath as membership of far-right 'White Power' group DOUBLES in three days
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- Armed police shoot man 'carrying a bomb in a rucksack after he takes a woman hostage' at Brussels tram station as they swoop on terror suspects linked to 'imminent attack in France'
- EXCLUSIVE - Inside the den of terror: Extraordinary first pictures of the Brussels bombers' secret lair where they built explosives for mass murder
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- Dramatic moment SWAT team rescue woman, 28, drag her to safety and kill her ex-boyfriend after he held her hostage and shot her at point-blank range outside an Office Depot
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- Heartwarming moment Mormon missionary's parents were reunited with their son who survived Brussels terrorist attack... after spending TWO YEARS apart
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How Kate got more regal than the royals: As you'll hear on TV tomorrow, her voice is now plummier than Wills'. And that's just the start
The Duchess of Cambridge has acquired a moniker of her own - and it's certainly a little barbed, writes CATHERINE OSTLER. To her critics, Kate has become known as the Duchess of Do-Little. Why? Well firstly, because Kate does seem to do very little. Last year (when, in fairness, she was pregnant) she undertook just 62 royal engagements, compared with the 340 of our nearly 90-year-old Queen. So far this year, she and William have had an even emptier schedule, with only seven completed engagements to their name. But the nickname is also a reference to her startling rise up the class ladder with commentators, and indeed some courtiers, saying that Kate has become even more regal than her Royal in-laws, thanks to the help of voice coaches, etiquette lessons and a hairdresser. Here, we chart her rise from hot pant-wearer to plummy princess.
TERROR IN BRUSSELS
Revealed: Man in White Brussels bomber 'is most-wanted Paris attack suspect Mohamed Abrini' who travelled to Britain last year
The 31-year-old, wanted for his role in last November's attacks in Paris, is thought to be the man captured on CCTV, shown left, alongside Belgian brothers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui, according to the Belgian newspaper Sudpresse. After the two bombers had successfully detonated their bombs, Abrini is thought to have been caught fleeing the scene, wearing beige summer clothes and a blue hat, having failed to set his own device off. Abrini, pictured inset, is thought to have played a major role in organising this week's terror attacks in Brussels, which killed 31 people and injured hundreds more. The Belgian of Moroccan origin is known to have travelled to the UK last year, visiting Birmingham where he took photographs of an unidentified football stadium while his Islamic State cell began planning the attacks in France. He is shown on CCTV at a gas station on the way to Paris ahead of the attacks, right.
Terrifying moment teenage ISIS suicide bomber blows himself up at a FOOTBALL STADIUM near Baghdad, killing at least 65 people and injuring more than 60
A teenage ISIS suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd after a local football game in a village south of Baghdad, killing at least 65 people, police and medics said. 'They were just handing the trophy to the winners, the suicide attacker blew himself up in the crowd,' a police captain from the village, Al-Asriya, told AFP. The police captain said more than 50 people were also wounded in the blast, near Iskandariyah, a town about 25 miles south of the capital. ISIS have claimed responsibility for the attack, releasing a photo of the young bomber, named only as Saifullah al-Ansari.
Anthea Turner is sued by her bankrupt ex-husband's creditors for £1.6million over the £10million sale of their former marital home
Miss Turner, 55, faces a court action over the £10million sale of their former marital home, Barbins Grange, the 57-acre Surrey estate where she married Grant Bovey in 2000. The couple, who divorced last year after he had an affair, sold the property in 2009 when his buy-to-let business collapsed at the height of the financial crisis. Instead of splitting the proceeds from the sale equally, Miss Turner received more than £3million, and used the money to buy a new home registered only in her name. Her husband got just over £400,000. The basis of the legal claim is that the arrangement meant that the 'lion's share' of the proceeds were kept out of the hands of lenders to whom Mr Bovey owed millions, according to court papers. Miss Turner has vowed to fight the claim and last night her lawyer said it was 'entirely without merit' and would be 'robustly defended'. The star became famous as a Blue Peter presenter in the early 1990s, going on to host shows such as Top Of The Pops and GMTV. She met Mr Bovey in 1998 and in 2000 the couple held their wedding at Barbins Grange. They were criticised for posing with a chocolate bar as part of a promotional stunt reported to have earned them hundreds of thousands of pounds. The witness statement says Barbins Grange was Miss Turner's home and Mr Bovey moved in with her in early 2000. It then become the marital home in 2002. In 2003 Mr Bovey set up Imagine Homes, which bought blocks of flats and was at one point estimated to be worth £100million. But his buy-to-let empire collapsed with debts of some £50million and went into administration in 2008. In July 2009 the couple sold Barbins Grange to exiled Russian mobile phone tycoon Evgeny Chichvarkin and his wife Antonina for £9.95million.
Murder of a man of peace: Muslim shopkeeper who wished his 'beloved Christian nation' a Happy Easter is stabbed 30 times by a FELLOW MUSLIM who sat laughing on his dying victim's chest
A man has been arrested after Asad Shah, pictured left, was set upon with a knife and had his head stamped on in a shocking attack outside his Glasgow newsagents shop last night. Locals said Mr Shah was left kneeling in his own blood at the side of the road after the thugs ran off. The appalling attack came just hours after deeply religious 40-year-old, who was keen to reach out from the Muslim community to Christian neighbours, posted heartfelt Easter messages on social media (inset). A police investigation has been launched into the full details surrounding Mr Shah's death, with officers pursuing a line of enquiry that the attack was racially aggravated. Police Scotland confirmed that everyone currently involved in the investigation was a Muslim.
Chillaxing with Sam Cam, wearing his dark shirt and with a cold beer on the table, David Cameron 'enjoys' a VERY stage-managed start to his sunshine holiday (just like last year, the year before...)
Lonely David Cameron finally had someone to chat to over a cold beer during his mini-break to Lanzarote after his wife Samantha flew out to join him. The couple were photographed today, shown main, posing with a lager each on the terrace of a restaurant in Playa Blanca as Mr Cameron took some time off to mull over several issues back home. The Prime Minister flew out to the Canary Island yesterday without his spouse to give him himself 'time to think', on the last day of parliament before the Easter recess. The couple are regularly snapped in similar stage-managed poses during their breaks away, with Dave regularly going for a conservative look featuring a dark blue top, as shown in 2015, inset.
'I was made to feel like a prostitute': Teaching assistant is fired by primary school after parents spotted photographs of her modelling lingerie online
A teaching assistant has been sacked by a primary school after parents discovered photographs of her modelling underwear, shown middle and right. Gemma Laird, 21, says she was told the school did not want pupils 'thinking it is acceptable to be a model'. She was sacked after less than a week in the job at Bloemfontein Primary School in Craghead, County Durham, where she worked with pupils aged five and six. Miss Laird, shown left with daughter Zofia, said she had told the school about her modelling, which had paid £120 a day, and her social media accounts were set to private. Since being sacked on March 3 she has returned to modelling.
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Frolicking with Otis Ferry on quad bikes: The naughty aristocrat who broke the heart of Prince William's best friend after divorcing him over his 'unreasonable behaviour'
SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Just a few weeks after her divorce from Prince William's best friend Thomas van Straubenzee, Lady Melissa Percy (pictured with Thomas, right) has been enjoying the company of notorious ladies' man Otis Ferry (inset). Otis, 33, who split with his model girlfriend Edie Campbell last summer, posted a picture of Missy (left) smiling radiantly as the couple rode quad bikes in the Northumberland countryside.
THE WORLD AT A GLANCE
Mischievous Donald Trump denies he is behind claims rival Ted Cruz had FIVE affairs... but says National Inquirer 'was right about John Edwards and OJ Simpson' as blame for story turns to Mark Rubio ally
Ted Cruz, the Republican candidate, is denying a claim that he has had five affairs. The claim first surfaced in the National Enquirer with no women being named - but then a senior Republican strategist, Liz Mair (top right) named two of the women alleged to have had the affairs. Mair said she did not believe Amanda Carpenter, Cruz's former spokesman (top left) would have had an affair with the candidate. But she claimed Katrina Pierson, a former Cruz aide who now works for Donald Trump (bottom left) might have 'come on to' the Texas senator. Both woman denied any wrongdoing today. Carpenter was asked on CNN about the claims and angrily struck back, blaming the Donald Trump campaign for the claims. And Cruz launched a robust defense today, denying the claims - also blaming 'henchmen' of Donald Trump for spreading 'garbage'.
WORLD NEWS
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- ISIS second-in-command killed in Syria was hit by an airstrike after US Special Forces aborted attempt to capture him alive
- Shocking video shows hijab-wearing woman TEARING UP Israeli flag at Brussels memorial to the dead
- 'He was the kindest and funniest of geniuses': Larry Sanders 'sidekick' Jeffrey Tambor leads the tributes to Garry Shandling, 66, after he dies aged 66 after calling 911 himself
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- Johan Cruyff dies aged 68 after Holland and Barcelona legend loses cancer battle as tributes pour in for one of football's icons
- The 60-year-old with a better body than you: Grey-haired model wows in breathtakingly beautiful swimwear campaign
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- New Zealanders choose to keep the Union Jack after rejecting a change to their national flag following an 18-month referendum costing $26 MILLION
- Pictured: Syrian army on the ground as they continue to retake historic city of Palmyra from ISIS after massive offensive as Iraqi forces advance on Mosul
- Fitness star with natural 30H breasts (and 3.5 million Instagram followers) details the downsides of being so busty, from fashion fails to awkward 'boob sweat'
- BREAKING NEWS: Turkey reveals they arrested one of the Brussels bombers near the Syrian border in June and deported him BACK to Belgium - and even warned authorities he was a militant
- 'I did what I had to do': Brussels metro driver who helped passengers to safety after terror blast blew his train apart killing 20 is already back at work
- BREAKING NEWS: Master bombmaker DID die in Brussels airport suicide attack - as Belgian police reveal the mystery 'man in white' is STILL on the run