Captain Tom Foundation ERASES hero walking veteran's name after his daughter and her husband were accused of 'serious and repeated' instances of misconduct, mismanagement and failures of integrity

found 2025 › Jan › 29 (Wed) @ 20:45 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

The company has been renamed as 'The 1189808 Foundation' - with the number the same as their charity number - and dropped the 'limited' aspect of their title.

Family stunned to learn that the father they thought was 'just a cook' had secret wartime life in elite paratrooper unit tasked with rescuing British POWs, as hidden medals go on sale

found 2025 › Jan › 28 (Tue) @ 16:49 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

The medals belonged to Captain Leslie Scott, part of a special unit made up of just 360 Allied parachute-trained special forces volunteers, many of them German-speaking.

Captain Cook statue in Sydney doused with red paint ahead of Australia’s controversial national day

found 2025 › Jan › 24 (Fri) @ 11:47 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Randwick mayor says vandalism does ‘disservice to reconciliation’ but Greens councillor says statue marks ‘devastating impacts of colonisation’

A statue of Captain Cook in Sydney’s eastern suburbs has…

England can beat everyone in Six Nations - Itoje

found 2025 › Jan › 21 (Tue) @ 17:55 UTC

a story from BBC › BBC News

Captain Maro Itoje says England can shrug off their poor recent form and deliver a surprise Six Nations Grand Slam.

Moving the Goalposts | ‘We’re witnessing extraordinary change’: Ecuador get ready for Copa América Femenina

found 2025 › Jan › 15 (Wed) @ 14:34 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Captain Gigi Moreira talks about women’s football development in her country and working with her sister to produce the next generation of players

Gigi Moreira is more than just the captain of Ecuador…

Captain Tom's daughter 'slashes price tag on £2.25million home with demolished spa' in an attempt to flog it after months on the market - while losing links to Covid hero from listing

found 2025 › Jan › 15 (Wed) @ 05:55 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

The seven-bedroom house in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, has been on the market since April 2024 and boasted a hefty £2.25million price tag.

Actor Mathew Horne looks back: ‘Gavin and Stacey was a big turning point in my life. People would confuse me with Gavin in real life’

found 2024 › Dec › 21 (Sat) @ 13:28 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

The comedian and actor on his Cure obsession, surviving a press storm, and being heckled by Robbie Williams

Born in Nottinghamshire in 1978, Mathew Horne is a comedian and actor. He studied drama at M…

The WWII prisoner who became a panto dame... and then hated it: Photos show British PoW performing in drag at German camp - but he feared becoming 'typecast' and threatened to go on strike

found 2024 › Dec › 19 (Thu) @ 13:30 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Captain John Dixon was captured at Dunkirk and spent the whole of the Second World War in a PoW camp in Germany. Stage productions were regularly put on by the men to keep up morale.