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A tanning salon has sparked outrage after it installed anti-homeless SPRINKLERS to stop rough sleeping outside its shop. The automatic system comes on in the evening and drips water from the roof making the area unusable for rough sleepers until it shuts off in the morning. Any homeless person who decided to sleep outside the Consul tanning salon on the Horsefair in Bristol would wake up to find themselves soaking wet. Owners say the sprinklers were the least aggressive way...

A van driver on trial for ploughing into a crowd of Muslims outside Finsbury Park mosque leaving one man dead in a bid to kill as many of them as he could had earlier hoped to kill senior Labour party figures including Jeremy Corbyn, the court heard. Darren Osborne, 48, is accused of driving a hired van from Cardiff to London where he ploughed into a crowd, killing one man, 51-year-old Makram Ali, and injured others. Mr Ali had collapsed...

New official figures include loss of sight, brain damage, loss of consciousness, asphyxia, amputation and even death The number of serious injuries suffered by education workers after violent assaults has shot up by 24% in the past five years, new figures obtained by the GMB show. In 2016/16, 477 assaults were reported to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) – up from 385 in 2012/13. Only the most serious categories of injury are reported to the HSE by early years...

A van driver accused of mowing down a crowd of Muslims told police "I'm flying solo mate" after the attack, a court heard today. Darren Osborne, 48, is accused of murdering 51-year-old Makram Ali and injuring several others Muslim worshippers near Finsbury Park Mosque in north London during Ramadan on June 19 last year. Prosecutors introduced evidence at Woolwich Crown Court about whether others were involved, before closing their case. Jonathan Rees QC, prosecuting, said: "We are continuing to call...

The actor who played Baldrick in the Blackadder series labelled councillors planning to cut two-thirds of a city’s library services “stupid bastards.” Comedian Tony Robinson, 71, made the statement on Twitter after being contacted about proposals to close 17 libraries in Bristol, his former home. It would leave just ten libraries open in the city, and is being challenged by campaign groups. Mr Robinson wrote: “Would stop closing Bristol’s libraries, you stupid bastards do ?” But his choice of words...

A group of primary school pupils have been left "traumatised" after a PORN video appeared on screen as they were sat watching Paddington Bear. Shocked children as young as nine-years-old were subjected to the X-rated footage during a screening of the 2017 family film at Croft Academy, in Walsall, West Mids. The school sent a letter to parents claiming there had been a "failure in filters" as they streamed the Paddington 2 movie, starring Hugh Grantand Julie Walters. But angry...

Journalists were left “laughing uproariously” after Angela Merkel poked fun at May’s poor attempt to negotiate a post-Brexit deal. She said that she felt trapped in a loop with May since the Brexit vote back in 2016. Merkel made her comments in a “secret” press briefing, during the World Economic forum in Davos. The ‘secret” details were leaked by Robert Peston, who said Theresa May repeatedly asked Ms Merkel to “make me an offer.” Ms Merkel said that when she...

Benefits cuts and freezes has resulted in the poorest households in the UK being forced to skip meals because they can't afford to put food on the table. Damning new research by the End Hunger UK coalition of charities has revealed rising food prices and austerity are driving "hidden hunger" in Britain, with a third of the UK’s poorest households skipping meals because they cannot afford to buy food. More than half of adults across all income groups, ages and household sizes...

Simon Dudley the council chief who found himself in a media storm for hoping homeless people would be moved off the streets of Windsor in time for the royal wedding has survived a vote of no confidence. In his letter to police, he complained about "aggressive begging and intimidation", and "bags and detritus" on the streets. Dudley had controversially asked the police to use their powers under the 1824 Vagrancy Act and the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014...