Peter Burness News Today

Dane Kealoha seemed destined to become Hawaii’s first pro-tour champion. The system had other plans.

On one page in the small pile of my grandfather’s letters that survive from World War One, the handwriting changes entirely. Through the seasickness and the tense languor of troop transport, the waiting in Egypt, his time in Gallipoli and the early weeks in France and Belgium, his notes home – “Dear Mother … love, much of it, Harry” – are written in now-faded back ink with a steady, almost meticulous hand. The paper is yellowing, foxed a little here and there and ragged at its edges,...

Amid the Battle of the Somme in 1916, thousands of British, Australian and French soldiers posed for photos that were later sent home to relatives.

A former Louth music teacher who abused a chorister at St James’ Church has been jailed for his “heinous” crimes.