A video of a racist woman in Leicester has gone viral after she told Asians to get out of "her country" and Jamaicans to go "back to Somalia". The woman was filmed outside a taxi rank asking drivers "why they are in our small island" before calling one man a "dirty f*cking tramp". The Leicester driver, who does not want to be identified, sent the one minute 20 second recording to his cousin to be uploaded online, the Leicester Mercury reported....
The poo girl from the 'worst Tinder date ever' has broken her silence via an anonymous internet post - to reveal friends have nicknamed her Miranda Hart. Liam Smyth, 24, launched a fundraising campaign after his window was broken by firefighters rescuing a woman who got stuck half-way out. But it went viral - smashing the £200 target - when he revealed she got stuck trying to rescue a poo she failed to throw out the window when it wouldn't...
Police are hunting a callous hit-and-run driver who mowed down a pregnant mum and her baby before leaving them for dead in the gutter. Detectives have released heartbreaking images showing the one-year-old tot with nasty facial injuries lying in hospital with her mother. The teenage girl, aged 17, and her daughter were struck by a car before being left in the road in Cobridge, Stoke-on-Trent on August 15. It is believed two cars – a silver VW Jetta and...
These heart-warming pictures show the moment a surf instructor gave a free lesson - to brave firefighters who battled the Grenfell Tower inferno. The firefighters were invited down for the lesson by Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service, who thought a day riding the waves would be the perfect therapy. Michelle Grenfell from Penzance fire station helped organise for the London firefighters to come to Cornwall. A group of 12 took to the waves at Porthmeor beach, near St Ives in...
The world's smallest car dealership is set to open next week - with customers choosing their new motor from a PHONE BOX. Peugeot has converted the classic red phone box, just 0.8m square, into a fully-connected online showroom. Potential customers will be able to access the micro-dealership in London's Russell Square by getting a special door code from the Peugeot website. They can then use an iPad to connect to an e-commerce portal to browse, configure, finance and order a...
A "pure evil" teenager who stabbed to death a "popular, likeable and harmless" 15-year-old boy outside his school gates has been jailed for a minimum of 14 years today. The 15-year-old masked killer who moments early had been laughing and singing ambushed Quamari Serunkuma-Barnes at the end of the school day. He was said to have been influenced by violent rap lyrics when he chased Quamari armed with a large knife in front of horrified pupils. Quamari had shouted for...
A vile rapist has been jailed for eight years after he filmed himself abusing a woman in her sleep and used the footage to blackmail her into keeping quiet. Evil Alex Somerfield, 23, raped his victim last December but after he assaulted her in the street in February, she reported him to police. A court heard the thug deleted the footage from his mobile phone but experts were able to retrieve the incriminating evidence. Somerfield, of Handsworth, Birmingham, was...
A young mum is about to face being torn apart from her newborn baby boy just weeks after giving birth. Pregnant Wanwan Kiff, 27, was recently refused permission to stay in the UK with her British husband by Home Office officials earlier this year. This week she gave birth to healthy baby boy Oliver - but will have to leave him in four months time and return to her native China. The deadline, issued by the Home Office after they...
A man who claimed he was beaten up by Mobo award winning grime star Kano 'deliberately misled' the court to go on a climbing holiday causing the case to collapse today (wed). And the second victim also failed to appear as police admitted they had not heard from her for seven months. Throwing the case out, the judge asked for a full investigation after the defence unearthed social media pictures of Henry Kinman rock climbing in Grenoble after telling them...
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