A hero bus driver who averted tragedy by pulling off a Fast & Furious-style manoeuvre to avoid a stuck Mini met with the First Minister today. Charmaine Laurie was filmed steering her double-decker bus away from a car that had veered onto the wrong side of the road. First Minister...
An adoption service is supporting the call for more lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people to consider adoption this LGBT Adoption & Fostering Week (5-11 March 2018). Coram, which runs three dedicated adoption services in London, Cambridgeshire and the East Midlands, has supported LGBT people to adopt for many years....
Last Friday night as the country was dealing with the worst weather for a number of years, a Premier Inn turned away homeless people who had been gifted a room for the night, reports The Evening Standard. 19 rooms has been hired for the evening for a young farmers groups...
An award-winning detective has been found guilty of drink-drinking after downing vodka while travelling to the station where he worked - for a MISCONDUCT meeting. Detective Constable Robert Hunt, 48, says he sank an almost half full plastic bottle of vodka in "two to three gulps" to give him some...
A 97-year-old woman is locked in a David and Goliath battle over her front garden - which she has refused to sell even for £100,000. Strong-willed pensioner Dolly Burton has been asked to give up two metres of her front garden so that a development of 49 houses can go...
Tributes have been paid after the body of a 75-year-old woman was found near her home in sub-zero conditions during a blizzard. The pensioner, believed to have been confused shortly before her death, was discovered lying partially under a car at 6am on Thursday (Mar 1) as temperatures plunged during...
We will continue to need gas over the short to medium term - the question is where that gas comes from and fundamentally where we can store it in sufficient quantity to guarantee supply and stable prices says GMB GMB, the gas and energy workers union, has today written to...
The father of a British woman who faces jail in Dubai after witnessing a drunken brawl has enlisted his local MP to help bring his daughter home. Asa Hutchinson, 22, was arrested in Dubai after witnessing two male friends scuffle in a hotel corridor with a "drunk" Swedish man they...
A bald pensioner claims he has invented a 'miracle cure' for baldness after years of home experiments. Despite his pate, Anthony Smith, 80, is 'very optimistic' he will soon have a full head of hair after perfecting his secret formula. The former lab worker for North Thames Gas began working...