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A top ten list of country's worst towns and cities reveals the "least salubrious dump in this septic isle", according to a 30,000-strong community website

Paul Bennett, 59, was working alone when a pair of would-be robbers threatened him with a shotgun.

The contest s a UK honour satirising the Tate Gallery's Turner Prize by rewarding deliberately bad modern art.

The Nobel Prize winning physicist's "God Letter" fetched £2,256,150 at Christie's in New York

Benefits claimants will no longer be entitled to a one-off £10 payment to help with Christmas costs under the government's flagship welfare programme. The tax-free payment made to people on certain benefits in the first week of December will be taken away once they are moved onto Universal Credit, the Department for Work and Pensions has confirmed today. The move has been described as "another example of cruelty" by claimants, who will be forced to struggle through one of the hardest...

The ambulance service has released adorable audio of little Kaitlyn Wright's call

Stuart and wife Amie Brown, 27, tied the knot at Lochside in New Cumnock, Ayrshire, on October 6.

The five senior citizens now have control over all the services they have to pay for - and say it is "the best thing we ever did"

One punter accused organisers of "conning families out of their hard-earned cash at the most precious time of the year".