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This is the graffiti artist who’s upset the Queen by scrawling HELCH in 60ft high white letters near Windsor Castle, his friends claim. Michael Purdy is the spray painter behind the Helch tag daubed across bridges and Tube station, the Home Counties and most recently Bristol, they say. The 27-year-old …

Royal rip off! How YOU paid nearly $60,000 for flights for Prince Harry and Meghan to travel around Australia in style during their first tour of the country as a married couple Prince Harry and Meghan Markle cost taxpayers almost $60,000 for their flights  The Duke and Duchess of Sussex …

The latest headlines in your inbox The latest headlines in your inbox Stamps celebrating England’s Cricket World Cup winners are to go on sale next month. Photos of the men’s and women’s national teams have been printed onto eight first class stamps, which will be available from September 26. The …

Prince William and Kate Middleton have taken a second short haul flight on a budget airline in a week. The royal couple and their children flew from Aberdeen to Norwich at 2.40pm yesterday as they returned from visiting the Queen at Balmoral, they touched down in Norfolk just 50 minutes later, …

Eight stamps featuring images taken during the finals of the Cricket World Cup and the subsequent celebrations are to go on sale next month. The photos of the England Men’s and Women’s winning teams from this year and 2017 respectively will be presented in two miniature sheets costing £4.60 and …

Plans to give Enid Blyton a commemorative coin were stopped because the author is known to have had “racist, sexist and homophobic” views. The Royal Mint revealed that plans to put the face of the beloved children’s writer on a 50p coin were blocked over fears it would provoke a …

And now for something completely different: Images of unaired Monty Python sketches revealed to mark comedy show’s 50th anniversary Unseen Monty Python material is revealed in anniversary Radio Times guide It includes pictures and scripts from sketches that never made it to air Radio Times is marking 50 years since …

Manchester Pleasure will look slightly completely different this 12 months, with the phases transferring away from the Homosexual Village. The Homosexual Village Celebration will nonetheless have a lot occurring – however if you wish to catch a little bit of Break Free, you’ll be heading to the newly-added Manchester Pleasure …

A metal-detecting couple have found one of the biggest treasure hoards in British history which is believed to be worth around £5million. Adam Staples and partner Lisa Grace unearthed the ‘once in a lifetime’ find of almost 2,600 ancient coins that date back 1,000 years. Although the find is smaller …

Daily Mail’s Treasure Hunt prize-winner tells of her joy at getting a £10,000 wake-up call Linda Underwood from Leicestershire is the winner of the second £10,000 prize in the Daily Mail’s £50,000 Royal Treasure Hunt  The 57-year-old says she’s been solving puzzles in the paper for years and she’s delighted …