On this day: October 12, 2018

Lord Rowalian then attended a dinner in his honour and spoke to the Swindon Rotary Club about the importance of scouting in making the man. 1952: During haymaking on a farm near Swindon the men were held up because all the wagons were full, so a boy of 15, who had permission to drive a tractor on the farm only, drove along the road to fetch a wagon from another farm.

UK-Russia relations could get worse before they get better, expert warns

Russian relations could get worse before they get better, the deputy director general of a prominent security think tank has said. Professor Malcolm Chalmers, from the Royal United Services Institute, highlighted how diplomatic links between the two countries are currently at "the lowest point" since the end of the Cold War.

The Skripal Poisonings and the Ongoing Vilification of Putin

Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned by a nerve agent on March 4 on a park bench in Salisbury, England. Skripal had been a Russian double agent, a spy who turned over 300 names of Russian spies to British intelligence from 1995 to 2004.

The Latest: UK lawmaker suspects Russian attack in spy case

Skripal, a former Russian spy is in critical co... . Washington Gov. Jay Inslee speaks after signing a bill Monday, March 5, 2018, in Olympia, Wash., that makes Washington the first state to set up its own net-neutrality requirements in response to the Federal Communications Com... Setting up a likely legal fight with the Trump administration, Washington has become the first state to enact its own net-neutrality requirements.

Jailed: Jockey who brought illegal immigrants into UK

A JOCKEY who ran a business arranging for illegal immigrants to come into the country has been jailed for five years. Ronald Wali brought people into the UK or arranged for them to get visas so they could stay under the pretext of having jobs working in race horse stables.