Robert Hardman

Sam Greenhill and Robert Hardman Amid the scandalous wastage of the PPE saga, there was one glittering exception: the Mail Force charity's

Apart from a pop-up traveller site, the 350 residents of the Oxfordshire village of Piddington seem pretty happy about life.

ROBERT HARDMAN: It's nonsense to say that 'London has fallen'... What is much harder to dismiss, however, is the charge that London is failing.

Echoing the Daily Mail's 'Betrayal of the Brave' campaign, the Special Air Service urged the pair to end the 'national shame' of mistreatment of former soldiers.

SAS commanders took aim at Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting last night demanding protections for Northern Ireland veterans.

Given that Andy Burnham is now leading Britain's political elite up the M6 to start business at ' Number 10 North', we might soon hear talk of a new 'Didsbury Set'.

Robert Hardman and his family use Borrowaboat to hire a catamaran for their summer family holiday - equipped with air conditioning and with the services of a skipper, too.

The afternoon heat is so intense that we can see smoke starting to rise above the distant hills.

Norway consistently ranks at the top of the UN Human Development Index. It can do so because, in the 1970s, it hit the same oil jackpot as Britain - but it went in a very different direction.

From Suffolk to the Peak District to the Cairngorms, pockets of fires are still furtively flickering away, smokeless, unseen and underfoot, in roots, animal burrows or a seam of peat.