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1 week ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Gavin Madeley
The smiling figure immediately caught the eye as he enjoyed a rare night out in a cosy Italian bistro. And while the homely charm and authentic cuisine of the Caprese Don Costanza has long drawn the cognoscenti to its basement premises in Glasgow's smart Park Circus, its discreet attention to its well-heeled clientele of footballers and television personalities might have been equally appealing to this particular diner.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Gavin Madeley
Steering his fishing boat towards his home port of Wick, Andrew Bremner’s darkening mood scarcely matched the sunlight dancing off the flat calm waters of the Pentland Firth. He and his ten-man crew should have been buoyed up by a successful 16-day stint at sea catching cod, haddock and whiting. But like all those whose lives and livelihoods rely on the bounty beneath the waves, there was little joy to be found in their return home.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Gavin Madeley
As one of Hollywood’s leading men, he has earned a string of glittering prizes for his commanding on-screen presence. But for more than a decade, one treasure has eluded Oscar-winning actor George Clooney after he waded into a long-running diplomatic row over the Elgin Marbles, named after the Scots nobleman who removed them from the Parthenon building in Athens.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Gavin Madeley
Looking down from on high, the drone’s eye view is unflinchingly spare. Far below is a tiny enclave of brightly painted homes, their perfectly aligned slate roofs glinting in the hot spring sunshine as they cling together against the vast expanse of notably undeveloped scrubland beyond. Each house is chocolate box pretty, the palette of styles moves from Georgian townhouse to crofters’ cottages, making the whole tricky to date.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Gavin Madeley
As the lone figure approached the summit of Mount Everest buffeted by winds zipping around its dizzyingly steep and treacherous slopes, the sense of achievement was palpable. Here she was, the first woman to stand on top of the world after scaling Earth’s highest mountain unaided and without oxygen. It was a remarkable, record-breaking effort and Alison Hargreaves could no longer contain her emotions.
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1 month ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Gavin Madeley
It was the day when peace broke out across Europe, when a war-weary country threw off the shackles of fear on their great day of redemption. As King George VI took to the airwaves on May 8, 1945, to declare Victory in Europe, his electrifying words sparked happy bedlam across the streets of Britain as people burst into spontaneous sing-songs and partied long into the night knowing the dark shadow of Nazism was lifted.
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1 month ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Gavin Madeley
When your birthday celebrations are hailed as the most glamorous and decadent society event of the year, it’s easy to imagine they were the result of a lifetime’s preparations. But it really seems the case for aristocratic model Lady Lola Bute after she revealed she started planning for her memorable 25th birthday bash when she was still a child. Lady Lola hosted the extravagant shindig in April last year at Mount Stuart House, the family seat since the 18th Century.
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1 month ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Gavin Madeley
It started quite suddenly, an unwelcome intrusion into an island’s natural soundscape. And unlike the ebb and flow of ocean crashing on rock or the storms that soak the lochans and bogs of Lewis, there has been no let-up from this disconcertingly unnatural interloper. To some, it sounds like a lorry’s engine idling in the road outside their home. Others complain of a infuriatingly vague but persistent low rumble they cannot escape.
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Mar 1, 2025 | 
dailymail.co.uk | Gavin Madeley
Riding high in the charts with their smash hit Runaway Train, rock band Soul Asylum made a bold decision. Control of the accompanying music video would be handed to a campaign seeking to reunite missing children with their distraught families. Among the steady stream of snapshots of lost youngsters, pictured in happier times, was one face familiar to Scottish viewers.
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Feb 21, 2025 | 
dailymail.co.uk | Gavin Madeley
From its imposing perimeter wall to its forbidding entrance gates, everything about HMP Frankland appears designed to extinguish hope. Only convicts facing a long stretch come to this maximum-security facility, dubbed 'Monster Mansion', because of the high number of notorious offenders incarcerated here. Soham murderer Ian Huntley, serial killer Levi Bellfield and former police constable Wayne Couzens – who kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard – form part of the prison's infamous roll call.
