A man died after choking on a kebab in the toilets of his local pub. Dai ‘Radar’ Rees, 51, was enjoying a night out with friends when he popped out to buy the snack at 9pm. But he returned to the bar choking and ran to the toilet - where...
The Rt Hon David Lammy MP, head of the recently released Inquiry into Racial Disproportionality and the Criminal Justice System, was among leading speakers at the ‘Ubuntu* Police and Youth Engagement Symposium,’ hosted by the Tutu Foundation UK at the House of Lords on Tuesday 10th October. The event reviewed...
A super headteacher of one of the best schools in the country says there are not enough top schools in deprived areas. Simon Elliott leads Forest Gate Community School in Forest Gate, Newham, an area with high levels of poverty and gang violence, which was today ranked the sixth best...
A controversial event to debate the idea of a 'Minister for Men' in Westminster flopped - after just SIX people showed up. Posters invited people to attend a meeting in Bath, Somerset, to discuss the notion that "men and boys have become second-class citizens". Organiser Swayne O'Pie switched the event...
A tiny planet that orbits the Sun beyond Neptune has a Saturn-style ring, it has been revealed. Astronomers say the discovery suggests the stunning bands made up of dust, rocks and ice are not as rare in our solar system as previously thought. They used observations from 12 ground-based telescopes...
A woman has died after falling 100ft from the Whispering Gallery at St Paul's Cathedral. She fell from the first level of the viewing gallery to the floor and was pronounced dead at 10.30am on Wednesday. Her death is not being treated as suspicious, but the cathedral remained closed for...
Human intestines have been grown in the lab and transplanted into rats - offering hope of new treatments for serious gut disorders, scientists have revealed. The breakthrough could combat the organ donor shortage crisis, leading to better therapies for Crohn's disease and even cancer. It opens the door to creating...
A medical implant to correct congenital heart defects has been developed that grows with the child. The use of such devices has been thwarted because they are a fixed size - and cannot expand as young patients get bigger. Scientists said the new growth-accommodating implant inspired by a toy could...
These pictures show the moment an elderly tea-lady was forcibly moved from her month-long post set up at a controversial fracking site by police. Great grandma Jackie Brookes, 79, set up shop at the Kirby Misperton site in Yorkshire where she provided provisions of tea and home-made cake to both...