Great Christmas rush home: Four times as many passengers could descend on railway stations in the week before festive bubble starts to avoid overcrowding, says research Rail travel will peak at 11am on December 23, day coronavirus rules are relaxed Analysis from Zipabout reveals London Euston will be busiest over festive period Six of 10 busiest stations in London. Edinburgh, […]

LONDON’S deputy mayor has been caught on camera eating his earwax in a public meeting. Labour’s Jules Pipe CBE, 55, shocked viewers when he used his specs’ arm to scoop out the gunge. He then sniffed his find before licking it. Mr Pipe, on £132,000 a year, apparently ­forgot he was on a Microsoft Teams call for Thursday’s virtual London […]

THE NUMBER of abuse victims turned away from refuges because of a lack of beds rocketed by a third in a year, new stats reveal. One in five women fleeing domestic abuse cannot get a bed because the system is under so much strain. Some 4,823 people were not given shelter in 2018/19 because of a lack of space – the latest […]

A MAN in China has been sentenced to death after abducting and raping his neighbour's four-year-old granddaughter. The 54-year-old, named only as Liu, confessed to assaulting the girl in a ditch before carrying her back to her family covered in blood. Authorities are calling the girl 'Yan Yan' to protect her identity. She was reported missing on the evening of […]

Frantic investors are worried that missing Dover Heights woman Melissa Caddick may have misappropriated between $25 million and $40 million, with one victim entrusting her with $5 million. "She is the con-artist of the century," said one victim whose extended family invested with Ms Caddick. "I was dry-retching when I found out." Melissa Caddick hasn’t been seen since November 12. […]

Remarkable story of how 13-year-old Jewish boy stabbed Nazi guard to death in a Polish ghetto in 1940 before making daring escape across Europe to start secret life in Britain is revealed in new book written by his son Henry Carr knifed the guard fearing his brother would be killed for stealing food The teenager fled Poland in a German […]

CNN boss Jeff Zucker was caught in leaked audio saying the Trump legal team is “crazy” – and branded Rudy Giuliani a “useful idiot.” Secret recordings released by Project Veritas on Thursday appear to include Zucker, president of the cable channel, blasting the president’s personal lawyer. Project Veritas, run by James O’Keefe, is a conservative website that uses hidden cameras […]

Fox News Flash top headlines for Dec. 3 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. An award-winning pilot pulled off a “textbook emergency landing” on a Minnesota interstate Wednesday night. Nobody was injured when Craig Gifford, 52, a member of the US aerobatics flying team, struck a vehicle after landing the single-engine Bellanca Viking […]

Dennis Talbot remembers a time not that long ago when the San Remo Fisherman's Co-operative looked like it might go under. Almost all of the locally-caught seafood was being sold off-site in Melbourne and many of the fishers were unhappy. Fisherman Wayne Dredge unloads a catch of shark from his boat at San Remo.Credit:Joe Armao "We were using imported fish in […]

Italy reports its highest daily Covid-19 death toll yet with 993 fatalities Italy recorded 993 deaths in last 24 hours, its highest daily toll in the pandemic Comes despite downward trend in infection rates, with 23,225 new cases Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is to set out new emergency measures over Christmas Italy has recorded its highest daily death toll from coronavirus with […]