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Michel Roux has announced Le Gavroche is closing early next year. A landmark on the British culinary map, Mike Daw takes a look back at a titan of London restaurants

Britain has endured its fair share of doomed prestige projects, said Larry Elliott in The Guardian, but “as white elephants go, HS2 is in a class of its own”. Since the high-speed rail link got the formal parliamentary go-ahead in 2012, it has become a byword for bureaucratic incompetence and…

One of Britain’s worst criminals, Letby has been convicted of killing seven newborn babies and trying to murder six more

Great Britain are sending their smallest team for 15 years to Budapest as UK Athletics hope streamlined selection will pay off

As Letby, 33, is convicted of murder of seven babies, we take a look at some of the country’s most shocking murderers

Leisure activities flourished in 19th-century Britain, as legislation was passed limiting the length of the working day and working week, giving people more free time. If you’re struggling to know how to spend your own free time this summer, take a leaf out of the Victorians’ book with these strangely…

As Letby is convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others, we look at other examples of killers who exploited a position of trust

GP Harold Shipman tops the list, after being exposed as one of Britain’s most prolific serial killers.

With record numbers out of work, we need a solution as bold as the creation of the NHS in the 1940s, says Prof Dame Sally Davies, former chief medical officer for England

As the provincial press has declined in Britain, so too has local arts and cultural criticism. In the 19th and early 20th century, regional newspapers regularly published reviews of theatre productions and a wide variety of books including history, science, travel writing, poetry and fiction.

Britain's Alex Yee braved the waters of the Seine to win the men's triathlon test event for the Paris Olympics on Friday, on a course identical to the one set to be used for next year's event.