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A nurse who was part of a group that scooped £1,000,000 in the EuroMillions says she almost didn't check the winning ticket. The fifteen kind-hearted nurses are celebrating winning the Millionaire Maker draw on Friday, April 20 -with each member pocketing more than £66,666 - for just 50 each. June Fraser, from Cleland Hospital in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, was in charge of checking the tickets each week. The 58-year-old nurse said: "I checked the tickets using the National Lottery app...

Today we are demonstrating against the Home Office’s planned secretive mass charter flight deportations to Jamaica and Nigeria. A full amnesty to those who have been criminalised by racist immigration laws is the only way to right a historic wrong. By Karen Doyle, Movement for Justice This weekend we celebrated  the release of Yvonne Williams - a 59 year old grandmother of seven children who has spent the past EIGHT months locked up. Her crime? Coming a cropper of a racist...

A pair of pigs which escaped from a lab where their skin was burned and cut in cruel experiments are finally leading a happy life on a farm - after being rescued by vegans. Albert and Mendel, three, began their lives in a laboratory where they were used in experiments to test dermal products which left their skin irritated with burns and abrasions. The brothers spent 10 months being poked and prodded in experiments and had never even experienced the...

Georgia Bryant, 28, was diagnosed with leukaemia and needs life-saving treatment

A drunk driver who was on a 'motorised pub crawl' when he ploughed his car at high speed through the living room wall of a family home has been jailed for five years. James Sparham, 29, was almost three times the drink drive limit when he crashed through the wall of the home owned by David Garnett, 54 and his wife Claire, 50, in the early hours September 3 2017. The horrific crash, which caused horrendous damage totalling £175,000, left...

A young woman driver got wedged near the 11th hole after following her Sat Nav - onto a GOLF COURSE. Hilarious pictures show the black 2006 Ford Ka in a ditch after it drove round a path by the side of Lickey Hills Golf Club. Greenkeepers at the course, near Birmingham, say the young driver got lost and thought she was travelling along a country lane when she realised her mistake. The abandoned car was discovered by staff on Sunday...

A military wife is helping her daughter cope when her dad is away - with a special cuddly toy with his face on. Mum Natasha Balfe says the personalised doll designed to look like her partner helps both of them deal with his absence. Natasha developed a rare psychological condition after giving birth to baby girl Naomi, and struggled with caring for her when husband and RAF airman Jack was away. But the 25-year-old said the 'Huggable Heroes' helps them...

Two men have been arrested in connection with a 'targeted' hit-and-run outside a mosque in Birmingham. Officers were called to Ettington Road, Aston after two men were injured and the car failed to stop at around 2.15pm last Friday. A 22-year-old man and a 20-year-old man have been arrested on suspicion of causing grevious bodily harm and are currently in custody for questioning. A 19-year-old man was taken to hospital with head and back injuries. While a 17-year-old suffered head...

Clutching a bottle of water, presenter Ant McPartlin leaves his home after returning from rehab. The Geordie TV star and Britain’s Got Talent presenter, 42, left the large detached house in leafy Chiswick, west London with another man this morning. Wearing a black jacket and grey baseball cap, clean-shaven Ant clutched a Volvic water bottle and was seen getting into a black car parked on the gated driveway. Ant McPartlin arriving home after having recreantly returned from rehab, Chiswick, London,...