Category: News

Many people are putting up their Christmas trees earlier than ever this year in a bid to spread some festive cheer – but people have been warned they may also be bringing unwelcome guests into their homes. Those buying trees have been urged to look out for brown walnut-sized lumps, which look similar to pine […]

A seven-year-old girl was on her scooter in a park calling out to her mother when a stranger slit her throat, a murder trial has heard. Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester heard Little Emily Jones had been brought to Queen’s Park in Bolton that Sunday afternoon by her father Mark Jones when she was […]

A respected PC who helped police several Royal Weddings has been sacked after he underpaid for a box of donuts while on duty. PC Simon Read attached a 7p barcode sticker for loose carrots to a £9.95 box of 12 Krispy Kreme donuts. The 37-year-old told a disciplinary hearing that he made an “honest mistake” […]

A pensioner turned model is using his uncanny resemblance to Father Christmas to spread some Christmas joy at the end of a hard year. Harry Mountain from Chorley, Lancashire, ran his own joinery business for decades before he started modelling full-time, a career that has since proven to be very successful for him. Harry is […]

The family of a teenager killed after a car overturned have said they are “totally devastated and heartbroken.” William Kingham was killed in the smash in Knowle, West Midlands at around 9.30pm on Monday. The Solihull 15-year-old was in a Renault Clio which flipped on its roof, He was confirmed dead at the scene. A […]

A woman smashed hundreds of bottles of alcohol on the floor of an Aldi supermarket in a five-minute wrecking rampage. She stayed silent as she dragged thousands of pounds worth of bottles of wine, beers and spirits from the shelves of the branch in Stevenage, Hertfordshire on Wednesday afternoon. It is believed the woman, who […]

When Andrea Leon found out that she was pregnant in 2014, she was over the moon. But when she went for her 12-week she was given the heartbreaking news that she had miscarried. Six years later, she’s lost seven more babies, which has left her with depression and PTSD. She and her husband have spent […]