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The second volume of William Woodruff´s memoirs starts with him having arrived in Poplar in the early 1930s. On spec, he turns up at a steel foundry and luckily gets a job....

It was Constance´s mother who told her she was ugly. Over and over again. And that was just one strand of a childhood blighted by physical and emotional abuse. But the young...

On 6 June 2004, Frank Gardner and cameraman Simon Cumbers were in a suburb of Riyadh, filming a report on Al-Qaeda when they were confronted by Islamist gunmen. Simon was killed...

Although Jodie is only eight years old, she is violent, aggressive, and has already been through numerous foster families. Her last hope is Cathy Glass. At the Social Services...

In 1950s and 1960s Dundee, the only ray of light in little Laurie´s life came from the man who would return home with pockets full of sweets and bags of toys. Uncle Andrew would...

In 1950, Kathleen O'Malley and her two sisters were legally abducted from their mother. The rape of eight-year-old Kathleen by a neighbor triggered their removal. Kathleen's...

Money, cars, homes, holidays, parties and all the shoes you´ve ever dreamed of. The life of a footballer´s wife or girlfriend must be as glamorous and exciting as her other...

Cynthia Owen grew up in Ireland, went to the local convent school, said her prayers and took her first communion with all the other girls in her class. But behind the facade of...

The storyon these pages would have been incredibly exciting had it been fiction. But it is more than that-it is fact. It is a story that only Ken Follett, today's master of...

For 175 years the British have lived with the railway, and for a long while it was a love affair - the grandeur of the Victorian heyday, the glorious age of steam, the romance...

Growing up, Sophie carried a terrible secret. She was her father's slave, in the most horrific ways imaginable. At just a few months old she was adopted by a couple that seemed...

In 1909, the maverick American retailer Harry Gordon Selfridge opened the West End of London´s first dedicated department store to a blaze of glorious publicity - the...