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As the Met Office issues rare red warning, a look back at some of Britain’s most devastating storms

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Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. president (1861–65), who preserved the Union during the American Civil War and brought about the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. Among American heroes, Lincoln continues to have a unique appeal for his fellow countrymen and also for people of other lands.

<strong>Letters: </strong>Readers react to Simon Parkin’s long read about the UK’s internment of ‘enemy aliens’ during the second world war, and letters that followed it

Stories build powerful emotional attachments. We root for heroes, boo their opponents and get anxious for the fictional problem to be solved. Facts have very little to do with it.

Illinois First Lady MK Pritzker will take part at a Read-a-Thon at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield.

Leeds University chiefs have slapped content warnings on dozens of works studied by undergraduates on its English courses,

Alan heads up Largo Law in Fife.

They’re both taking our country apart at the seams.

Bird species have been allocated symbolic meanings through folklore, rhymes and fairytales: the Cuckoo as a metaphor for a con artist, Magpies linked to sorrow, joy,...