A CATHOLIC monk has been charged with a string of historical sex offences against teenage boys after he returned to Britain from Kosovo following a five-year police hunt.

Father Laurence Soper is accused of assaulting five boys, one under 14 at the time, over a period from 1972 to 1986.

The nine charges include offences of buggery, gross indecency and indecent assault.

The 72-year-old was arrested as he arrived at Luton Airport on Sunday by officers from Scotland Yard's Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse Command.

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Communities will fall silent today to remember the 11 men killed in the Shoreham air crash, exactly one year on from the disaster.

A minute's silence will be held at 1.22pm - the precise time the vintage Hawker Hunter jet crashed on to the A27 in West Sussex during the Shoreham Airshow.

Names of the 11 who died when the 1950s' plane came down in front of thousands of spectators last August 22 will be read by the Rev Canon Ann Waizeneker.

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Rio has passed the Olympic baton to 2020 hosts Tokyo in a colourful closing spectacular that capped off a record-breaking Games for Britain.

Dozens of Team GB's victorious athletes are set to return as heroes, bringing with them the biggest medal haul for the nation in more than a century.

The historic accomplishment that saw Britain come behind only to the United States has triggered a clamour for the victors to be awarded with knighthoods, damehoods and honours.

After a competition where negative headlines were never far away attention now turns to the Paralympic Games, due to begin next month against a backdrop of controversy.

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