A vile rapist has been jailed for eight years after he filmed himself abusing a woman in her sleep and used the footage to blackmail her into keeping quiet. Evil Alex Somerfield, 23, raped his victim last December but after he assaulted her in the street in February, she...
An estate agent who famously survived eight days locked in a box after being kidnapped by crazed killer Michael Sams in 1992 has died of cancer. Michael Sams Stephanie Slater, 50, was held in a cramped wooden coffin for over a week after she was taken captive by the convicted...
A devoted barber chose to give his one-legged client a fresh trim OUTSIDE - because his mobility scooter wouldn't fit inside the shop. Kieran Worthington, 28, moved his clippers and scissors outside to give Billy, whose in his 70s, a short back and sides in the reflection of the...
A homeless man has appeared in court charged with killing a mum and her teenage son during a triple stabbing. Aaron Barley, 23, is accused of murdering Tracey Wilkinson, 50, and her son Pierce, 13, at their detached family home. Businessman Peter Wilkinson, 47, was also knifed six times at...
A thug who killed a grandfather with a single punch following a petty pub row has been jailed for six years. Ashley Lawman, 25, got into a row with 60-year-old John Olver after exchanging no more than five words. They took their disagreement outside, where Lawman felled the grandfather-of-seven with...
A former police officer who worked as part of a child protection team has been jailed after being caught with indecent images of children for the second time in a year. Robert Branney, 71, who served in the police for 28 years, was initially caught last year after he went...
A legal secretary lost almost six stone and claims she looks a decade younger thanks to a diet which sees her eat 95 per cent FRUIT. Fresh-faced Rebecca Rosenberg also says she has banished her lifelong acne problem and cured herself of MS since becoming a fruitarian. The 33-year-old munches...
A pregnant mum has created a buzz after posing for maternity photos - with 20,000 BEES swarming around her baby bump. Brave Emily Mueller got the honeybees to settle on her stomach by holding the queen bee in a cage in her hand. The 33-year-old is a full-time beekeeper who...
A man cheated death when a rogue plank of wood flew off a van and smashed through his windscreen - just centimetres from his chest. David Smart's life was saved by his own steering wheel, which blocked the path of the piece of timber but was bent in the...