The light aircraft landed on the central crash barrier of the A40 Golden Valley Bypass between Gloucester and Cheltenham near Gloucestershire Airport at around 6:15pm today.

‘Afghan Ali’, as he was also known, was shot in a hail of bullets as he walked along Almeida Crescent, South Yarra on Friday night.

This is the terrifying moment cops rescued a trucker who had been held hostage by a couple who hijacked his semi-truck in the middle of the night.

LORD ASHCROFT: The pilot and his crew had been patrolling the seas off West Africa for several hours before finally, in the distance, when they spotted what they had been searching for.

It is the second treatment to offer hope to patients in what experts have hailed ‘the decade of dementia’ which could see it likened to other conditions such as asthma. A US roll out could happen in 18 months.

Both the lack of spring frosts and the current dry weather are the perfect combination for delivering a plentiful supply of strawberries over the coming weeks, say experts.

EXCLUSIVE: The phantom pothole filler poured concrete into a 10ft wide crater that had closed a road near Lostwithiel, Cornwall, since the beginning of April.

The lion was sighted in the Sena Oura National Park, where they have not been seen since 2004. The image was captured by a remote camera in February.

It’s a wet and chilly start to the Easter Monday bank holiday. Damaging 60mph winds will be arriving from the Atlantic tomorrow. Accompanying them will be up to 2in of rain, forecasters have warned.

Tributes to Queen Elizabeth II and the struggle in Ukraine dominated the conversation online as Britain ushered in the New Year.