Euro 96, Oasis at Knebworth, rise of Girl Power: This is why 1996 was the most iconic year

Oasis’ Liam Gallagher, Geri Halliwell of Spice Girls, Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker, Robbie Williams and Stuart Pearce all made 1996 an historic year (Picture: Gavin Billenness/Metro)

Stuart Pearce’s ferocious ‘psycho’ celebration. The Spice Girls dancing on the stairs of a London hotel. Jarvis Cocker rushing the stage during a Michael Jackson performance at the Brits.

Incredibly, these significant…

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Angine de Poitrine live: ‘These time-travelling space-voyagers are the buzziest band around – I was hooked’

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They’re the hyper-galactic duo who’ve taken the music world by storm.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past six months, there’s been no escaping the hype surrounding Angine de Poitrine – a mysterious masked pair whose brand of…

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Sister guilty of murdering film director sibling over diamond-encrusted Rolex

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A woman who stabbed her own sister to death and stole her diamond-encrusted gold Rolex watch is facing a life sentence.

Nancy Pexton, 70, slashed and stabbed sibling Jennifer Abbott 10 times and then left her body for three days in her…

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What a stolen bag of coffee and the Kilburn Circle tell us about crime in London

A stolen bag of coffee, which police believe is at the heart of London’s shoplifting problem (Picture: Justin Griffiths-Williams)

The theft of a bag of coffee is neither the crime of the century, nor is it worthy of national news coverage. Or so it seems.

What it represents to Inspector Yu Zhang, who I spent a day with, is a gateway into a seedy underworld connected to a network of many other…

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Woman, 69, ‘cut sister’s throat and snatched her diamond-encrusted Rolex’

Nancy Paxton (right) is on trial at the Old Bailey charged with the murder of her sister Jennifer Abbott

A woman cut her own sister’s throat and snatched her diamond-encrusted gold Rolex watch, the Old Bailey has heard.

Nancy Pexton, 69, is accused of murdering her film director sibling, Jennifer Abbott, known professionally as Sarah Steinberg, at her flat in Camden, north London, on June…

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Woman sexually assaulted on London Underground in daytime attack

Officers want to speak to this man, who they believe could help with the sexual assault investigation (Picture: British Transport Police)

A woman was sexually assaulted on the London Underground by a man standing behind her.

Detectives are investigating the attack, which happened during the day on board a southbound Victoria line Tube train.

The woman was travelling on the train at about…

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