A Cornish terror group dubbed the 'Ooh R A' has claimed responsibility for firebombing Rick Stein's seaside restaurant - and claims it has a would-be SUICIDE BOMBER in its ranks. The Cornish Republican Army (CRA) says it carried out the attack last month as part of a renewed campaign...
The family of an elderly woman who died weeks after being attacked by a female robber has blasted the 30-month prison sentence - branding it "a final insult". Danielle O'Neill pretended she was a police officer to persuade Philomena Keane, 75, to open the front door of her flat...
A cash-strapped school has resorted to asking parents to buy TEXTBOOKS for their children because of a lack of funding. Hanley Castle High School, in Worcester have sent out letters to mums and dads asking for financial help to plug a £400,000 cut in their budget. Headteacher Lindsey Cook...
The world's first car running on a biofuel made from WHISKY residue has had its first successful test drive. The fuel - biobutanol - is a brand new type of sustainable fuel and is designed to be a direct replacement for petrol and diesel. It is produced from draff...
Thousands of twitchers have flocked to a remote quarry on the edge of a village to try and get a glimpse of a bird rarely spotted in the UK. Bird watchers came out in their numbers when they descended on the site in order to get a sighting of...
A meat supplier mixed cheap horsemeat with beef before flogging the 'horsebeef' to unsuspecting manufacturers of ready meals and burgers for supermarkets and caterers, a court heard. London-based businessman Andronicos Sideras is accused of buying cheap cuts of horse then fraudulently selling it as '100% beef' for vast profits. The...
A juror who overslept by eight hours costing the tax-payer £12,000 has found himself in the dock in front of an angry judge. Robert Mace, 36, was fined after he delayed the start of a baby shaking trial by one day after he told a top judge that he had...
A new poll has shown that the Labour party are storming ahead in the polls, leaving the Conservatives behind, as the party is still licking its wounds from the poor election performance. Jeremy Corbyn is now pushing hard to become the next PM. The YouGov poll, the first by the...
The parents of a woman murdered by a "monster" say the original police investigation was a "disgrace" and the coroner's inquest was a "sham". Robert Trigg, 52, was jailed for life today for the murder of Susan Nicholson, 52, in 2011, and the manslaughter of another girlfriend Caroline Devlin,...