@BenGelblum With Britain's police budgets set to lose £700m a year, amid rising crime, and yet more cuts planned for border forces, parliament today heard of the tragic consequences of less money to fight a growing drug-fuelled gang crime epidemic. Knife crime is not being driven by minors and teenagers. ...
Feisty Emily Thornberry stood in at PMQs today, for Jeremy Corbyn, with David Lidington standing in for the PM as she in China. Thornberry said that the DUP and Tories were a “coalition of cavemen” because of their opposition to lower the voting age to 16, which all other main ...
Mrs Le’s Banh Mi and Grill has opened in Battersea bringing an authentic Vietnamese restaurant experience to south London. Derived from the Le family’s matriarch Mrs Le's has built a dynasty of restaurants across the capital and continues to expand. The key to her success has been to stick to what ...
Thousands of children fall victim to the horrifying new 'bait out' trend that sees their nude pictures shared on social media EVERY DAY, police believe. At least one child from just one small Kent borough every day has their naked selfies posted online, police reveal. And if this worrying trend ...
There was something about the phrase “thoughtless obsolescence” that had got me thinking ahead of To Kill A King’s final tour date at Islington Assembly Hall. The term was used by the band in our pre-gig chat to describe the “lost and unsatisfied” feelings that seem to have become the ...
A disabled man was Tasered by police and charged with assaulting an officer in a case that collapsed when his mother discovered CCTV of the incident. The autistic man, Paul, who has a mental age of seven, could have been jailed had the trial gone ahead, his mother Margaret says. ...
By Jack Granard Mesut Ozil has ended speculation about his future at the Gunners, with confirmation that he has signed a new three-and-a-half-year contract. With only a few months left till his contract was expected to run out, the 29 year old German International has become the highest-paid player in ...
A young man who decided to take up fossil hunting made the find of a lifetime - just 15 minutes later. Archie Faiers, 21, was inspired by Sir David Attenborough after watching Attenborough and the Sea Dragon, and decided to have a hunt himself. He took his dogs for a ...
A senior Conservative parish councillor has spoken of his horror at discovering one of his properties was being used as a massage parlour - which offered 'happy endings.' Bobby Nagpal, vice-charman of Buckhurst Hill Parish Council, in Essex, said he had 'no knowledge' his property was being used as a ...