A SCHOOLGIRL was killed in a horror speedboat crash after a skipper smashed straight into a 15ft buoy, a court heard today. Michael Lawrence is accused of performing reckless stunts before ploughing into the metal structure at 36.6 knots – or 42.2mph. The devastating collision threw passengers overboard and killed 15-year-old Emily Lewis when her […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton’s presidential dreams were undermined by her use of a private email server that included classified information. Donald Trump has risked criminal charges by refusing to return top-secret records to the government after leaving the White House. And now misplaced files with classified markings has led to another investigation that’s causing […]

MANCHESTER was the scene of the country's longest prison riot in penal history. Strangeways prison was regarded as the "last bastion of discipline" but overcrowding led to a melting pot with a dangerous guard-to-prisoner ratio. Who is Paul Taylor? Taylor, from Birkenhead, was serving a three-year sentence for theft, deception and assault. He had served […]

THE Royal Navy is tracking the movements of a Russian warship in the North Sea. HMS Portland is monitoring the guided missile frigate Admiral Gorshkov, which carries "unstoppable" hypersonic nuke missiles and has staged chilling war games on its way to the UK. Portland joined the Norwegian Coast Guard vessel Bergen to shepherd the warship […]

Heart stopping video shows Utah Snowboarder ‘swimming’ through an avalanche to stop himself being buried alive Snowboarder Blake Nielson survived a terrifying avalanche in Utah on Sunday Nielson captured the incident on a video camera he had mounted on his helmet He was able to stay on the snow and escape the avalanche after sliding […]

Who is Prince Harry’s ghostwriter? JR Moehringer behind ‘Spare’ is award-winning journalist whose own memoir was turned into 2021 Ben Affleck film that was directed by George Clooney Prince Harry’s tell-all memoir will be released officially tomorrow in the UK  It was written by ghostwriter and award-winning journalist JR Moehringer  He began his journalism career […]

How Britain’s flagship ‘prison of the future’ descended into our ‘cushiest jail’: Loud music, mobile phones, drugs and no fewer than three sexual flings between female guards and inmates blight reputation of Welsh unit Category C HMP Berwyn has seen three prisoner officers jailed in five years The women had intimate relationships with inmates at […]

I AM no slouch when it comes to memoirs. You could say I am a memoirologist, who has read nearly every celebrity journal, autobiography or diary published in the past 100 years, whether by Hollywood luminaries, playboys or politicians. The diaries of my own father, the late politician and News of the World columnist Woodrow […]

Lloyds’ controversial plan to give 10 million loyal customers a second-rate service under new ‘deeply cynical’ system Customers at Lloyds and sister outfits classified according to profit generated  In future, only those deemed of greatest financial value will receive best service Lower-tier customers would face setbacks such as longer phone waiting times Lloyds Banking Group has […]

A MUM died just two days after getting engaged with her death being treated as "unexplained". Kirsty Cracknell passed away suddenly on December 11 as she looked forward to her 31st birthday celebrations. Tragically, her partner had proposed just two days before the horror in Hull. Tributes have now flooded in for the mum, who […]