James Macmanus News Today

On 25 April 1974, an almost-bloodless coup brought down more than 40 years of dictatorship in Portugal and ended Europe’s longest-lasting dictatorship

EXCLUSIVE: As a young foreign correspondent, former Express man James MacManus fell for a local woman while covering the chaotic, bloody Rhodesian War of independence. Their Romeo and Juliet affair was doomed... but hes recreated it in a deeply poignant new novel.

JAMES MACMANUS: Everything else about those weeks in Paris in 1974 remains in my mind as if yesterday.

Queen Camilla is raising eyebrows after rehiring a former aide who has a close association with the British media.