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All the latest news and updates on Sir Richard Branson, an English business magnate, investor, and author. He founded the Virgin Group in 1970s – which now includes airline Virgin Atlantic, health club chain Virgin Active, and space travel company Virgin Galactic.

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Ghislaine Maxwell who just turned 60, was found guilty on five of six counts related to her role in Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of minor girls. Undated File Picture: Jeffrey Epstein on cell phone as his arms enrapture his off and on girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell Trial Verdict, New York, USA - 07 Dec 2021Mandatory Credit: Photo by SDNY/ZUMA Press Wire/REX (12665576s)

Key figures named in the latest Epstein files release - from Melania Trump to Bill Gates

Channel: World World 2 days ago By Sarah Hooper
Eurostar train at a station as passengers walk away with suitcases.

New Eurostar 'turn up and go' service to cut waiting times to just 15 minutes

Channel: Travel Travel December 22, 2025 By Kristina Beanland
Richard Branson and wife Joan Branson smiling at a ceremony, side by side.

Richard Branson reveals how he and his wife spent their last day before she died

Channel: News News November 26, 2025 By Molly Lee
A mock up of a red Virgin Train waiting at the Eurostar platform in London St Pancras as passengers walk past.

‘Eurostar rival’ Virgin’s plans for UK to Europe trains confirmed

Channel: Travel Travel October 30, 2025 By Alice Murphy
Modern The Eurostar high speed bullet train - connects Paris Gare du Nord and London St. Pancras train station in London

Virgin's Eurostar rival plans could see cross-Channel trains from across the UK

Channel: Travel Travel October 30, 2025 By Alice Murphy
Modern The Eurostar high speed bullet train - connects Paris Gare du Nord and London St. Pancras train station in London

Virgin orders 12 new high-speed trains in biggest challenge to Eurostar yet

Channel: Travel Travel October 11, 2025 By Alice Murphy
Jeremy Clarkson grinning in a nacy shirt

9 celebrities who turned out well despite flunking A levels

Channel: Showbiz Showbiz August 14, 2025 By Joe Roberts
Boxing Heavyweight Champion Oleksandr Usyk launches a fundraiser for the rebuilding of apartment buildings in Ukraine. Images via Reuters/John Sibley TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Ukrainian world champion Oleksandr Usyk warns Russia is trying to 'erase our existence'

Channel: UK UK July 16, 2025 By Josh Layton
Two Eurostar trains pulled into a French rial station.

Virgin set to announce £700,000,000 plan to rival Eurostar trains

Channel: Travel Travel August 16, 2025 By Emily Bashforth
British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson leans out of the window of the driver's cab on board a Virgin Pendolino train at Lime Street Station in Liverpool, north-west England, on March 13, 2012, as he prepares to launch a Global Entrepreneurship Congress. The event aims to be the largest gathering of start-up champions from around the world. AFP PHOTO/PAUL ELLIS (Photo credit should read PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Virgin announces £700,000,000 plan to rival Eurostar with cross-Channel trains

Channel: Travel Travel March 31, 2025 By Emily Bashforth
Artist impression of balloon.

Trips on Richard Branson's stratospheric balloon will cost you £95,000 a ticket

Channel: Tech Tech October 18, 2024 By Jasper King
Marcellus Williams (L) and Sir Richard Branson (R)

Last eight words of death row inmate who Richard Branson tried to save

Channel: US US September 25, 2024 By Sam Corbishley
Richard Branson officiates wedding of Alan bates and Suzanne Sercombe

Alan Bates gets married on Necker Island after Richard Branson saw cheeky request

Channel: UK UK September 9, 2024 By Jen Mills

These people didn't get great A-level results now look at them

Channel: Showbiz Showbiz August 14, 2025 By Joe Roberts
Jacqui and Malcolm King-McKinnon with Virgin Atlantic founder Sir Richard Branson.

We met as first Virgin Atlantic cabin crew 40 years ago - and have flown together since

Channel: UK UK June 23, 2024 By Noora Mykkanen
Richard Branson's bloody injuries revealed after horror bike accident Instagram

Richard Branson shares gruesome injuries after horror bike crash

Channel: Showbiz Showbiz February 13, 2024 By Rebecca Sayce
Editorial use only Mandatory Credit: Photo by ITV/Shutterstock (14264133aa) Toby Jones as Alan Bates. 'Mr Bates vs the Post Office' TV Show, Series 1, Episode 4, UK - 04 Jan 2024 Mr Bates vs the Post Office, is a British ITV four part drama which tells the true story of of one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history. Hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly accused of theft, fraud, and false accounting due to a defective IT system. Many of the wronged workers were prosecuted, some were imprisoned for crimes they never committed, and their lives were irreparably damaged by the scandal.

How an IT glitch ruined 700 innocent lives

Channel: TV TV January 16, 2024 By Freya Graham

Epstein 'filmed sex tapes of Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton and Richard Branson'

Channel: US US January 9, 2024 By Jessica Kwong
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Richard Branson's live TV interview interrupted by world's loudest cricket

Channel: TV TV August 30, 2023 By Rachael O'Connor

Where to watch Virgin Galactic's first space tourism flight take off live

Channel: Tech Tech August 10, 2023 By Katherine Fidler

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