THUNDERSTORMS are set to strike the UK with an inch of rain in less than an hour today before the 30C heat makes a return. It comes after the mercury soared to 40.3C on Tuesday – making it the UK's hottest day on record, according to forecasters. And the Met Office has now issued a […]

Summer HELL-idays! French border staff are blamed for FOUR-hour wait at Dover as queue chaos hits Heathrow, Manchester and Bristol airports while fuel protesters plot road blocks on ‘busiest getaway in eight years’ at start of school break Bosses at the Port of Dover today blamed French staff for a four-hour wait for passengers to […]

A COVID-19 conspiracist who used a baseball bat and taser to viciously assault two police officers who asked a teenager to put on a face mask has been jailed for three years and two months. Senior Constable Rowan Baldam feared he was going to be killed when Steven John Cleary repeatedly struck him to the […]

A NAVY sailor is being accused of murdering his wife in a jealous rage before setting their home on fire, court documents show. George Dodson, 23, allegedly beat his wife to death with a hammer and set their Connecticut home ablaze where their baby son lay inside, police said. Fire officials responded to reports of […]

Washington: The monarch butterfly has fluttered a step closer to extinction, after scientists put the iconic orange-and-black insect on the endangered list because of its fast dwindling numbers. “It’s just a devastating decline,” said Stuart Pimm, an ecologist at Duke University who was not involved in the new listing. “This is one of the most […]

Women’s standing ovation for new theatre’s toilet plan which provides more facilities for females than males in bid to beat queues @sohoplace will be first new-build theatre in London’s West End for 50 years  It will have more women’s toilets then men’s to counter longer queues ‘State-of-the-art’ theatre will have 600 audience seats and opens […]

Appeal Court judges hear latest round of fight between Archie Battersbee’s parents and doctors over withdrawing 12-year-old’s life support High Court ruled doctors can switch off ‘brain-stem dead’ Archie’s life support   Boy, 12, on life support Royal London Hospital after ‘catastrophic’ brain damage His parents Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee had appeal heard in court today […]

Key points Carolyn Creswell bought Carman’s 30 years ago for $1000.  The business now employs 60 people at its head office with a further 400 in its factories and recorded $114 million in turnover in its most recently filed financial accounts for the year ending June 2021. Carman’s has over 150 different products and is […]

CHILLING clues have led to the arrest of a "Black Widow" mother who nearly got away with killing her two husbands. Stacey Castor painted herself as a victim of tragedy while police determined the cold-blooded killer attempted to kill her daughter and frame the girl for her horror crimes. The New York resident appeared to […]

The ultimate irony: The night a fatal gun battle broke out between black GIs who had come to Europe to battle fascism, and racist US soldiers on the streets of Bamber Bridge… that was sparked by the colour blind kindness of the Lancashire locals The deadly firefight lasted more than five hours and was one […]