Two people injured in Merseyside house explosion… nearly 24 hours after home blast killed pensioner in Edinburgh Shocking pictures show debris strewn across the residential road in Tranmere Two people have been injured in a Merseyside house explosion – less than a day after a blast killed a pensioner in his Edinburgh home. Shocking pictures show debris strewn across the […]

Rapist who filmed victim’s horrific 10-hour sex abuse ordeal is jailed for 27 years after judge brands footage ‘one of the most perverted, sadistic, expressions of violence I’ve ever seen’ WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Richard Morland, 47, of Shildon, County Durham, recorded 10 hours of sex abuse A sadistic ‘sadistic’ rapist has been sentenced to 27 years after carrying out a […]

EXCLUSIVE The beaming cowboy builders: Rogue traders enjoyed lavish lifestyle despite leaving £106K trail of bodge job misery for their clients – including family of girl, 12, with brain tumour Rebecca Wilson, 40, ripped off clients even though she’d previously been handed a suspended jail term for dishonest trading The bosses of a cowboy building company lived the high life […]

BREAKING NEWS British soldier, 32, ‘killed’ in Kenya: ‘Exceptional’ officer dies while off-duty during motorbike trip  Major Kevin McCool, 32, died on 29 November while off-duty in Kenya An ‘exceptional’ British soldier has been ‘killed’ in Kenya while off-duty on a motorbike trip, the Ministry of Defence has said. Major Kevin McCool, 32, died on 29 November after allegedly being […]

EXCLUSIVE Thrown together by war, but bound by love: Bob and Ann fled Nazi Germany on the Kinderstransport for the safety of Britain. Here they found a home, security – and each other. Their story shows how romance can blossom, even from the horrors of the Holocaust Bob Kirk, 98, and Ann, 95, fled their homes in Nazi Germany before […]

A record 38,7000 asylum seekers are given refuge in the UK – even more than during the crisis in the early 2000s Home Office caseworkers made under 42,000 decisions on claims in 2023  Rate has rocketed as Government introduced schemes to clear backlog of cases  The data showed the largest number of applications came from Afghans The number of asylum […]

More than 500 children are evacuated from £17,000-a-year private prep school after bomb scare Talbot Heath Preparatory School called police shortly after receiving a threat More than 500 children at an exclusive private school were evacuated today following a bomb scare. Talbot Heath Preparatory School, in Bournemouth, Dorset, which costs up to £17,301 a term, called the police at 9.36am […]

A WOMAN who married a bigamist has revealed he told bizarre lies in order to conceal his secret family – but added he has now moved on with another girlfriend. Ex-soldier Jason Hayter, 48, carried out a "cruel deception" by living a double life with two separate families before his lies were exposed on Facebook, a judge said. He'd met […]

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Nihal Arthanayake says working at the overwhelmingly white BBC is bad for his mental health BBC Radio 5 Live presenter made comments at journalism diversity conference Claimed lots of people leave because they couldn’t deal with the culture  BBC producer said the organisation is committed to tackling lack of diversity  BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Nihal Arthanayake has said an ‘overwhelmingly […]