Police launch desperate hunt to find missing 14-year-old schoolgirl last seen in her uniform Katelan Coates, 14, was last known to be wearing school uniform and leggings West Yorkshire Police are urging anyone with information to come forward  West Yorkshire Police have issued an urgent appeal for information regarding the whereabouts of missing girl, Katelan Coates. […]

Government ‘could abandon plans to ban new petrol and diesel car sales by 2030’ after EU waters down its own restrictions to appease German manufacturers Ministers could postpone the UK’s 2030 ban on new petrol and diesel car sales after the EU watered down its own restrictions amid opposition from German manufacturers. The agreement passed […]

British parents are fined £200 each after they were found drunk at a Gibraltar bar with their baby in a pram Police were tipped off by a member of the public who saw the child in the pram Both appeared intoxicated and were slurring their words, a police statement said Two British parents have been […]

RUSSIA is staging major war games involving 3,000 troops and nuclear missiles as Vladimir Putin flexes his military muscle at the West. The tyrant is putting on drills with his "invincible weapons" in three regions, showcasing his nuclear-capable Yars rockets – one of Moscow's deadliest weapons. Putin has aimed to make the mammoth Yars intercontinental ballistic […]

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Victoria will lift a ban on personal electric scooters as part of an extension of the divisive trial in which thousands of hire scooters have taken to inner-Melbourne streets. Roads Minister Melissa Horne will on Thursday announce a six-month extension to the trial with scooter hire companies Lime and Neuron, which have deployed 2500 scooters […]

A WOMAN has died in a house fire after flames ripped through her home. Firefighters were called to a house fire in Leigh, Essex at around 2.15am this morning. Flames were seen on the ground floor of the the mid-terraced house. Essex Fire confirmed that a woman died at the scene after neighbours were evacuated […]

A turf club has been fined $250,000 over the death of a young jockey in Melbourne’s south-east. Apprentice jockey Mikaela Claridge, 22, was thrown from her horse after it became spooked while riding in darkness on the morning of August 30, 2019. Jockey Mikaela Claridge died in a trackwork fall in August 2019.Credit:Racing Photos Claridge […]

It’s designed to keep spectators on the edges of their seats and Australia’s grand prix circuit has added more of it. Strap yourself in while we decode DRS. Spanish two-time Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso’s Ferrari is rocketing along close to 200 km/h down the pit straight at Albert Park. In front of him, […]

When Mohammed Kazi and his wife bought a block of land in the new Ellarook estate in Truganina in 2017, the advertised plans for a future primary school and railway station were major selling points. Six years on, the couple – now living in the estate with two preschool-aged children – feel shortchanged. Mohammed Kazi […]