Former hostage Terry Waite had one opportunity to escape from captivity, but didn't take it because doing so would have led to violence - what he most opposed, Waite told about 650 people at ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A British man held captive as a hostage in Lebanon for almost five years recounted on Monday how Queen Elizabeth invited him to stay after his release, a dramatic change from being ...

Former Beirut hostage Sir Terry Waite has encouraged others to "act within your own area of influence" to create changes in the world. Sir Terry, 85, spent nearly five years in captivity after he was ...

Former Beirut hostage Sir Terry Waite has been recalling how news from the BBC World Service was tapped out in code on a wall for him by a fellow captive. Sir Terry, 86, says the BBC World Service ...

Terry Waite was due to open the Ravensbourne block at the hospital in January 1987. Terry Waite has opened a hospital's new care centre almost 30 years after plans for him to open a unit were ...

Chained to a basement wall for five years, his only measure of time a mosque's blaring calls to prayer, Terry Waite didn't feel particularly close to God. He'd been kidnapped in 1987, an Anglican ...

A British man held captive as a hostage in Lebanon for almost five years recounted on Monday how Queen Elizabeth invited him to stay after his release, a dramatic change from being chained to a wall ...

The Pentagon should thank Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon for "exposing the fragility" of US military systems, according to Terry Waite. Waite, who was held hostage in Lebanon for four years after being ...

THERE was a period in the 1980s when images of the tall, statesmanlike Terry Waite were often flashing across our television screens or on the front pages of the national newspapers. As a special ...

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Soon after he returned from captivity in Beirut, Terry Waite stopped to chat with a mother and her children near his home in Blackheath, London. The little boy recognised him and said: "That's Terry ...