A top police boss is to be hauled before a misconduct panel over allegations he injured a fellow officer by hurling a stress ball at his throat. Essex Police's Deputy Chief Constable Matthew Horne is accused of throwing he rubber stress ball 'for no apparent reason' while in his office...
A social worker has been suspended for telling colleagues the best way to manage a woman with learning difficulties was to "hit her with a sledgehammer". Gawain Minney was banned from his profession after making the "cruel and discriminatory" jibe during a meeting with the woman's carer. A disciplinary panel...
Wheelchair users are still unable to use one of Britain’s busiest libraries after a £6million revamp – because the lifts are too small. Oxfordshire County Council forked out millions in taxpayer cash upgrading its flagship library but failed to install new lifts which can fit standard sized wheelchairs. Mum-of-three wheelchair...
A photographer had his head in the clouds when he captured these enchanting images showing stars glittering above a town blanketed in mist. Jan Sedlacek, 38, trekked 300 metres up the Malvern Hills to photograph the fog which settled over the town of Great Malvern as temperatures plunged below freezing....
Union calls for urgent review of private sector contract awards as company collapse plunges workers and services into crisis GMB, Britain’s general union has called on Prime Minister Theresa May to act immediately to take Carillion contracts into public ownership after the company went into liquidation today. The union called...
A model and campaigner was humiliated when his colostomy bag leaked - and staff at a conference centre REFUSED to let him use the toilet. Bodybuilder Blake Beckford, 36, has ulcerative colitis and three years ago was fitted with a stoma bag on the outside of his body to collect...
A vet campaigning for a hard Brexit has ended up in the dog house over an anti-EU poster - which says Europe has already "raped" Britain over a deal. Trevor Dixon, 69, donned the slogan in big black lettering on the window of his veterinarian practice in Goole, East Yorks....
A murder inquiry has been launched after an assault victim died more than six months after being attacked outside one of London's busiest tourist attractions. Desmond O'Beirne, 51, suffered devastating head injuries when two thugs attacked him in June near the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. Police say he never...
An "arrogant" surgeon who branded his initials on the livers of two patients has been spared jail and fined £10,000 in the first case of its kind in British criminal history. Simon Bramhall, 53, told a nurse "I do this" when she saw him about using an argon beam coagulator...