Almost everyone knows the sordid tale of William Hope, conning the bereaved out of their hard-earned money with spirit photos. But how often do we get an opportunity to appreciate his handiwork, and see if it cut the mustard even back in an age before Photoshop. Feast your eyes, as Paul Gallagher’s fixin’ to share […]

Tom Sutton-Smith was inspired after friends told him he could ‘do better’ than the Duchess’s first official portrait – and the couple praised the result at a gallery in Perthshire.

This was a so-called ‘honour killing’, so named because the women victims have supposedly brought dishonour on their family.

The inexplicable moments of youth where the world was ours for the taking and nothing seemed out of grasp are the ones that seem the most magical in retrospect, when friendship was unbreakable and dreams were just about reaching out…

Farzana Parveen, who was three months pregnant, was killed before a crowd of onlookers in front of the high court of Lahore on Tuesday.

The golf champion is said to have ended his three-year relationship with his 23-year-old fiancée in 180 seconds over the phone because he was not prepared for ‘all that marriage entails’.

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Nearly 20 members of Farzana Parveen’s family, including her father and brothers, attacked her and her husband with batons and bricks in Lahore, Pakistan.

The shrapnel passed through seven of the eight photographs in Hertfordshire-based Private William Taylor’s breast pocket as he fought at the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917.

Ivy is a menace, the horticultural equivalent of the Mongol hordes who were long supposed to be bashing on the gates of Christendom, writes QUENTIN LETTS.

A public service message from forageSF. The holidays are a time for giving. For searching our hearts and minds, attempting to find just the right gift to satisfy those we love. Perhaps its that ipad they've been lusting after, …