Mike Ridley

TYCOON Peter Waddell loves telling the tale of how Tom Cruise dropped by in his helicopter and offered to buy his £40million, 56-room mansion set in 49 acres. He says: “I paid £10million for it and…

IN a plane halfway across the Atlantic heading for Britain, Major Charity Adams nervously opened the letter she had held on to throughout the flight. The 26-year-old American’s instructions were cl…

FOR six out of ten of us, Christmas would not be ­complete without board games. And in homes throughout the UK, millions of families will sit down to murder-mystery favourite Cluedo, which is 75 ye…

ALL it took was three words: “Howay the lads!” for Britain to fall in love with President Jimmy Carter. He was in Newcastle when he won over a crowd of 20,000 with the Toon Army’s most famous chant…

FROM acting legends such as Dame Maggie Smith, to music icons like One Direction’s Liam Payne, 2024 was a year full of sad showbiz losses. Here The Sun remembers the stars we lost in 2024. Ja…

A TYCOON’S partner got a new £500,000 Ferrari, with a reg plate costing five times more. Peter Waddell, 58, wanted to get a special New Year’s gift for Gabby Nita, 40, who already had a fleet of su…

IT is almost 20 years since Clive Holland stood among the victims of Britain’s first Islamist suicide attack, and the memory still reduces the former soldier to tears. He was one of Scotland Yard’s…

A WORLD War Two secret agent who trained Allied spies to resist honeytrap plots has been buried with full military honours. Noreen Riols, who tested recruits by trying to seduce them into spilling …

THE lights in London’s West End will be dimmed for two minutes on Tuesday in honour of award-winning actress Dame Joan Plowright, who has died at the age of 95. She was a star of stage and screen f…

THIS weekend Prince Edward and his family are expected to be shooting at Windsor. The outing is a 60th birthday present from the King to Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh. But the person most likely to …