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Police hunt thug caught on CCTV snatching handbag from elderly woman & breaking her arm
The 79-year-old victim suffered a broken arm in the shocking attack
Rape becoming ‘effectively decriminalised’ after drop in prosecutions
Campaigners have previously argued so-called ‘weak’ cases are ditched in order to improve notoriously low rape conviction rates.
Number of households in temporary accommodation highest in more than a decade
It is the highest number of households in temporary accommodation since mid-2007.
John Lewis makes loss as it warns of dangers of no-deal Brexit
The retail giant said the impact of the UK crashing out of the EU would be ‘significant’.
This half-a-billion-year-old vicious predator is the earliest known ancestor of spiders
Palaeontologists working on the Burgess Shale fossil-bearing deposit in the Canadian Rockies discovered the new species, called Mollisonia plenovenatrix
Water vapour detected in atmosphere of habitable ‘super-Earth’ planet by British astronomers
K2-18b, which is eight times the mass of Earth, is now the only planet orbiting a star outside the solar system known to have both water and temperatures that could support life
Badger cull expanded in effort to tackle TB in cattle
The Government has granted licences for culling in 11 additional areas and reauthorises 29 existing culls across England.
This collector isn’t a few bricks short of a load with an amazing collection he has amassed in his garden shed
Mark Cranston, from Jedburgh, Scottish Borders, first started collecting bricks in 2010 after he was looking for a brick as a doorstop for his garden shed and found a white painted brick from a former colliery.
French disperse refugee camps amid warning of record Channel crossings
Border Force intercepted what is thought to be the highest number of migrants in a single day amid warnings the closure of French camps could prompt a spike in Channel crossings.