‘This has hit Ed like a train’: Insiders reveal the singer’s been left ‘in bits’ by the Gaza row – as friends accuse his celebrity critics of jealousy and opportunism. Now, they say, Sheeran ‘just wants to put on a baseball cap and disappear’

Little did Ed Sheeran know just how much he would need his wife and children. And…

As one of Europe’s shortest ever flights launch, we look at other brief journeys from around the world, including a Scottish island hop in just over a minute

Thirty minutes might be your guess for the duration of the world’s shortest flight – or…