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I’m wearing wipe-clean Birkenstock sandals and buckling under a rucksack that contains a weekend’s worth of camping stuff – enough bangers and beans, it seems, to make breakfast for all the 39,999 other people at the Latitude Festival. Here at Henham Park, Suffolk, we’re partying together like it’s, well, like it’s 2021 and we’ve all been locked up for 16 months. Latitude is the first full-capacity camping event to be held anywhere in the world since the start of the pandemic, believes festival boss Melvin Benn.  It’s the first mass gathering in Britain since Freedom Day, July 19. But as well as being a flagship freedom event, it’s also a vast laboratory and we are the human guinea pigs. Sarah Oliver is one of 40,000 to attend the Latitude Festival in Suffolk this weekend This is part of the Government’s Events Research Programme, working out how Covid-era entertainment and sports events can go ahead safely. No one gets into Latitude without having been double-jabbed or testing negati

Stripped to his underpants, 11-year-old Simon Lythgoe found himself wrestling with a teacher on his living-room floor. The disturbing scene was only interrupted when his father arrived home early from work and – incensed by what he saw – threw the teacher out of the house and warned him never to return. Because this was the 1980s, with child sex abuse a subject that was rarely discussed, the matter went no further. Worse still, the abuse continued. Simon now plans to attend Wood Green Crown Court in North London on September 2 to watch Wells, who is currently serving a 15-year term for his previous convictions, being sentenced Peter Wells, his deputy headmaster at Keble, a private preparatory school for boys in North London abused Simon from the ages of 9-12 For Simon, however, it was the first time he understood that there was something wrong about the behaviour of Peter Wells, his deputy headmaster at Keble, a private preparatory school for boys in North London. Between the ages of n

Victoria has recorded 11 new Covid-19 cases but there are fears anti-lockdown rallies could be super spreader events and extend the state's lockdown.  The results announced on Sunday come after 32,385 tests were conducted and 17,370 vaccines administered. Despite fewer cases than past days, Victorians are on edge to learn whether restrictions will be extended after thousands flooded the streets in Melbourne.   More than 1,000 people flouted stay-at-home orders to march through the CBD on Saturday afternoon.   Protestors were seen abandoning face masks and disregarding social distancing, raising concerns the anti-lockdown rally could act as a super spreader for Covid-19.  Victoria has recorded 11 new Covid-19 cases with fears mounting that anti-lockdown rallies could act as a super spreader event and extend the state lockdown More than 1,000 people flouted stay-at-home orders to demonstrate against the hardline restrictions on Saturday afternoon Some protesters took it upon themselv

Elizabeth Emanuel, a 29-year-old up-and-coming fashion designer, was in her Mayfair studio one morning talking to a client when the telephone rang. Nobody was rushing to pick it up and it trilled for what seemed like an age. Apologising to her client, Elizabeth went off and took the call herself. A well-spoken young woman was on the line asking if she could book an appointment for that afternoon. Elizabeth took her details, absently writing down the name ‘Debra’ by mistake. It was an error that became apparent when, at the agreed time of 2.30pm, the woman was buzzed through the front door, climbed the stairs and stepped into the tiny first-floor showroom, smiling bashfully from under her fringe. It was Lady Diana Spencer, the 19-year-old tipped to be the next Queen of England. MAGICAL MOMENT: Diana gives the world the first glimpse of her dress as she arrives at St Paul’s Cathedral for her wedding in July 1981  ‘I couldn’t believe it,’ recalls Elizabeth today. ‘Diana, wearing the full

Prince Harry's old Eton and Army friends have warned him not to reveal their secrets  in his tell-all memoir due to be published next year.     Many of his older friends are worried his book could cause them huge embarrassment and some have warned they are ready to dish the Royal dirt if his book exposes them.  Harry and his wife Meghan agreed a lucrative four-book deal, including the Prince's memoir and a second book to be published after the Queen has died, for a figure possibly close to £29million. The deal has rattled some of Harry's chums who fear unwanted revelations could be the final insult after years of them refusing to gossip about him.    Prince Harry's old Eton and Army friends have warned him not to reveal their secrets in his tell-all memoir due to be published next year and warned they may be ready to dish the royal dirt if his book exposes them Harry's book deal deal has rattled some of his chums who fear unwanted revelations could be the final insu

NRL stars and their families locked up in Queensland quarantine hubs must prove they taped their balcony doors shut after breaching Covid rules. Family members were photographed passing lollies to guests on floors above and below them at the Novotel Hotel in Surfers Paradise on their first day in the league's Covid bubble.  Everyone in the Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast hubs are as a result banned from their balconies and must supply photo evidence of the taped doors.  NRL families have been forced to tape their balconies shut and send photo proof to Queensland Health after they were pictured breaching quarantine rules Pictures on Thursday show men and women staying inside the Novotel hotel in Surfers Paradise as a part of the NRL's bubble passing lollies to people on floors above and below them The breach threw the entire NRL season into chaos with Queensland's chief health officer Jeannette Young threatening to send the player's packing from the state.  Dr Yo

Dawn  on that unforgettable winter's day saw a chilly, misty London at a standstill. Four thousand people an hour had filed past Winston Churchill's body as it lay in state at Westminster.  Now, a week later, on January 30, 1965, a military tribute such as the nation had rarely seen was about to unfold, with millions worldwide watching on television. 'I want lots of soldiers and bands,' the great wartime leader had once said when looking ahead to his own funeral. And that is what he got. Only two people outside the Royal Family – the Duke of Wellington and William Gladstone – had ever previously been granted state funerals. 'It wasn't a funeral,' his widow Clementine said at the end of the day. 'It was a triumph.' From that moment, a legend was born: an extraordinary myth surrounding one single man which continues to affect our lives today. Books, films, TV series, statues, posters, murals and recordings ensure that memories of Churchill are never fa