A police officer once hailed a hero was sacked on the spot for sharing racist posts on Facebook including one describing gypsies as “f****** scumbags.” PC Jeanette Cadden received a commendation in 2015 for her actions in saving a suicidal woman who was about to jump from the Avon Gorge, but at a tribunal it was decided she could not remain a police officer. One post she shared read "Ex-serviceman living in a car. Share if you think he should...

A supermarket giant has come under fire for selling 'organic' coconuts wrapped in plastic packaging. Sainsbury's was berated after a picture of the coconut, which comes with a cardboard stand for better presentation, plastic ring pull and straw, was posted on Twitter. The Genuine Coconut costs £3 in store - but non-packaged coconuts retail at 80p. The image has been re-tweeted more than 50 times with the hashtag #EnvironmentalVandalism. The organic coconut that is being sold wrapped in plastic at...

A serving police officer has today (tue) admitted sexually grooming a 15-year-old boy. Detective Constable Jonathan Davies-Brewin, 50, was snared by a vigilante paedophile hunter posing as the teenager. A court heard the senior cop arranged to meet the 'boy' following a conversation on social media. However, when he arrived for the meeting in Colchester, Essex, the boy turned out to be a vigilante adult. Today (tue), Davies-Brewin admitted one count of attempting to meet a boy under 16 years...

Amber Rudd was yesterday forced to admit that the government had cut the number of firefighters - just months after chief fire officers warned that further budget cuts pose a risk to community safety. Official figures revealed last year showed the biggest increase in fire deaths for a decade. Figures from the Department for Communities and Local Government show that 294 people died in fires in England during 2015, an increase of 21 per cent. The figures coincide with numbers...

The odds of 2018 being Theresa May’s final year in power have been slashed by bookmakers, with the PM now just 5/4 to resign at any point in the next 12 months. After a cabinet reshuffle that saw little change, May has come under increased criticism and the leading online bookmaker thinks she’s moving closer to the exit of No.10. Chris Grayling, wrongly announced via Twitter as the new Conservative Party Chairman, keeps is role as Transport Secretary but is...

You would have thought a lesson would have been learned by now. A year in to his presidency and Donald Trump has transferred the principles he acquired on television in to the White House, a mantra that usually goes: Give the audience what it wants, not what it needs. Yesterday came the announcement that the Trump administration will end protections for certain nationals of El Salvador, a move that could leave more than 200,000 immigrants who have lived in the US...

</a ></a >Sport News</a > 24/7 By Richard de Winter & David de Winter - Sports Editor @TLE_Sport  @rgdewinter  @davidjdewinter The 2017/18 Ashes down under have been a bit of an unmitigated disaster; Richard and David cast their eye over the wreckage that is England's cricket team and analyse where it all went wrong.  Additionally, they pore over the melee that is the January transfer window, review the weekend's FA Cup action, preview the first Grand Slam of the year,...

Within Gare de Lyon train station in Paris, Le Train Bleu epitomises a golden era of glamorous railway travel. Befitted with cavernous ceilings, grand frescoes, chandeliers and immaculately dressed waiters, the restaurant has been a fine dining institution since first opening in 1901. It’s also one of the most storied restaurants in Paris – arguably the fine dining capital of the world. Although a fast-paced traveller’s menu is available, the restaurant seems completely removed from the train station dining we’re...

Theresa May struggled to reshuffle her own cabinet yesterday after ministers point-blankly rejected her proposals. With very little moves to report on the day it has since been revealed that many ministers defied her attempts to change their jobs. Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, successfully faced down the Prime Minister when she asked him to become business secretary, forcing Mrs May to tear up her plans to promote or move other ministers who were already pencilled in. Hunt has overseen...