Author: richluscombe

In one giant nest are bald eagles named Guardian and Liberty, lovingly nurturing their three fluffy new chicks through their first days of life. In another, sit Shadow and Jackie, taking turns to carefully but forlornly incubate an egg they don’t yet realize is never going to hatch. The compelling stories and contrasting fortunes of…

The boyfriend of a British woman missing in the US Virgin Islands has told friends he is “in pieces” over her disappearance as search and rescue volunteers hunt for clues to her whereabouts. Sarm Heslop, 41, from Southampton, (pictured right) was last seen on March 7 before vanishing from the catamaran on which she had…

When a gunman shot up her school with more than 300 rounds from an AR-15 assault rifle, slaughtering 17 people and injuring 17 others, Liz Stout prepared herself to die. She has been haunted every day since February 14 2018 by the memories of seeing a friend, Carmen Schentrup, take her last breath on their…

Behind high hedgerows, cocooned by the Secret Service and isolated from social media, Donald Trump might have thought he was safe from hecklers and botherers inside his gilded Mar-a-Lago resort. The lifting of federal flight restrictions around his elite hideaway in Palm Beach, Florida, however, means the sky is now the limit for detractors, creating annoyance…

As one of Star Trek’s most beloved characters, Montgomery “Scotty” Scott spent a lifetime exploring the galaxy on the USS Enterprise, boldly going beyond the final frontier. Now it can be revealed that in death the actor who played the starship’s chief engineer has travelled nearly 1.7 billion miles through space, orbiting Earth more than 70,000 times,…

Political debate in America in 2020 has been ugly, accusatory, and extreme. As we enter the last 50 days of the US election campaign, it can seem like the entire nation is resorting to irrational behaviour. There is no longer any civilised forum to debate or negotiate differences. We headed for Florida, which always seems…

It was a fashion that offended those with delicate sensibilities, and even caused Barack Obama to wade in. “Brothers should pull up their pants,” the former president once said of sagging – the practice of wearing trousers so low around the waist that most of the underwear is exposed. Now a Florida city that made headlines by passing an…

It has been 36 years since Kathy Sullivan celebrated being on top of the world after becoming the first American woman to walk in space. Yesterday she was celebrating again after becoming the first female explorer to also reach the bottom of it, having descended 6.8 miles in a “magic ball” to the Pacific underworld…

Fears for health of Briton stuck in Florida prison coronavirus ‘death camp’ Florida’s governor is facing diplomatic and legal pressure to release a British inmate imprisoned for 33 years for a crime he denies, after the coronavirus turned his jail dormitory into a ‘death camp’. Five guards and two inmates have tested positive for the virus…