According to official figures knife crime has increased during 2017 in England and Wales. There has been a spike of 22 per cent in crimes involving knives. If that wasn’t bad enough, there was also an 11 per cent rise in firearm offences. Almost 40,000 offences involving knives or sharp...
The parents of a seven-year-old boy put into isolation for having lines shaved into his hair have accused his school of hypocrisy - because the head has PINK HAIR. Little Lucian Smith's parents allowed him to have the fashionable cut during the Easter holidays, thinking it would grow back by...
Union goliath Len McCluskey has laid into Labour MPs who, in his opinion, used the anti-Semitism row to attack Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. Mr McCluskey accused MPs Chris Leslie, Neil Coyle, John Woodcock, Wes Streeting and Ian Austin of "polluting" Mr Corbyn's bid to tackle the problem within the party. He...
The Deepwater Horizon disaster turned into one of the biggest environmental tragedies in history - because of the sun, suggests new research. Dispersants used to clean up major oil spills are almost a third less effective in sunlit waters - such as those in the Gulf of Mexico, according to...
Banking heiress Kate Rothschild had hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of jewellery stolen as her children slept at their London home. The haul taken from the £3.5 million property in leafy Barnes, south west London, included the 35-year-old's wedding and engagement rings, according to reports. Ir is understood that...
A man fined £800 after he filmed a pet dog giving Nazi salute set up a GoFundMe page to pay for his appeal - and has raised over £75,000. Mark Meechan was found guilty of a hate crime in communicating a video which was "grossly offensive". Meechan, from Coatbridge, Scotland,...
A loving farmer spent all night carving a proposal message into a hill - with 300ft letters. Romantic Ben Wolfe spent all night meticulously carving "Marry Me" in giant letters on one of his hills to surprise girlfriend Lacey Jordan. Ben, 29, kept the whole scheme under wraps for days,...
This is the terrifying moment a councillor’s car was set alight in what has been described as a "professional" job. Cllr Mohammad Sakib, 46, could only watch on in horror as his Audi Q7 - worth around £50,000 - went up in flames after being torched by a masked arsonist...
A Windrush grandmother, who has paid taxes for almost 40 years, was sacked from her charity job last month - because she couldn't prove her right to remain. Jessica Eugene, who came to the UK in 1970, was fired from her receptionist job at a migrant charity after three years,...