Dame Sheila, who was evacuated as a child during the Second World War, is due to appear at the VE day concert on Thursday.

Emergency services received calls alerting them to the blaze at about 2.25pm on Sunday, and firefighters tackled it for almost 24 hours.

In a conversation with veteran Douglas Cracknell at Clarence House, Camilla shared her father’s experience of the war.

Zhao Xintong was crowned China’s first world snooker champion after withstanding a stirring comeback from Mark Williams to complete an 18-12 win at the Crucible.

Smuggling off the California coast has long been a risky alternative for migrants to avoid heavily guarded land borders. Small boats with single or twin engines, known as pangas, leave from the ...