It seems that the Brits think of Barack Obama as a bit of a “smart alec”.

This article looks at the overall case of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance, why it had gone quiet and why this case has come to life again in recent days.

Several art works indicate that the misogynist character British carpenter John Sweeney, 53, sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder and dismemberment of two women, could have taken the lives of five others.

This is the true story of a young actress who, it is said, was murdered in her cabin by an ardent ship’s steward and subsequently thrown overboard via her cabin porthole. But how did the police manage to nail the killer and have him successfully convicted without producing a body?

I think most people, certainly in the UK and US, are familiar with the sorry tale of Dr Crippen but would he have been tracked down if it hadn’t been for the newly invented Marconi wireless radio telegraph machine? And did you know that even now there’s some controversy over his guilt 100 years after his execution?

They are dogmatic mainly because they are prejudiced, especially about the Indians, and the prejudiced people have greater danger of becoming dogmatic.

In June 1860 at Rode Hill House, the home of Samuel Savile Kent, a factory inspector, Samuel awoke to the news that his four-year-old son had gone missing from his bed – and so begins our tale of woe!

On the evening of the 9th July 1864, the chief clerk of a firm of London bankers boarded a train at Fenchurch Street station, sadly he was never to reach his destination.
Thomas Briggs became the first person to be brutally murdered on Britain’s railways.