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Thomas Frank desperate to lead Spurs to rare home win against his former club

March NY world sugar #11 (SBH26 ) today is down -0.03 (-0.20%), and March London ICE white sugar #5 (SWH26 ) is down -0.40 (-0.09%). Sugar prices are slightly lower today as they consolidate this week's losses. On Monday, sugar prices fell sharply to 1.5-week lows amid India's ramped-up sugar...

Housing, civil engineering and commercial activity ‘tanked’ last month, say economists

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale is renowned for its salacious storyline of sexual misadventure. Set in 14th-century Oxford, it tells the tale of John the Carpenter, a husband so terrified that another “Noah’s flood” is coming to drown the world that he sleeps in a basket in the attic – freeing…

Pioneering cardiac surgeon who directed the Papworth hospital heart transplant programme

Melanie Watters, 54, and her friend Janine Reid, 55, from London, were stranded by floods in Pussellawa for nearly a week

All lanes have now been reopened but delays of up to 25 minutes remain on the motorway

The 1960s tower block that will be ripped down is opposite Lakanal House where six people died in a fire in 2009

A man who exploited packed London Underground rush hour to sexually assault a woman was jailed for 26 weeks. Read how the victim's bravery secured the conviction of Jatinder Singh.