This evening’s fire that spread quickly across a 20-storey apartment block in central Manchester has been brought under control by Manchester firefighters who have been praised for their rapid response. The building was evacuated with a 23-year old taken to hospital for checks for smoke inhalation. https://twitter.com/manchesterfire/status/947222824795688960 Manchester fire brigade said that the blaze spread rapidly across three floors via wooden balconies. Twelve fire crews fought to control the blaze on the ninth floor of the high rise building in Joiner...

UPDATE: The fire us still being tackled by firefighters with one casualty taken to hospital for smoke inhalation. It appears to be under control. https://twitter.com/manchesterfire/status/947161047324078080 https://twitter.com/MotherLeopard92/status/947159526104584192 Breaking News: Reports are emerging of a rapidly spreading fire in an apartment block in the Northern Quarter of  Manchester city centre this evening. Images and video footage of the scene show flames pouring from a building. Church Street has been sealed off eastbound between High Street and Tib Street's junction with Dale Street....

A father has been branded an "idiot" for trying to place his toddler on a wild seal's back as it lay on a picturesque Norfolk beach. Hundreds of people vented their fury on social media after the incident was reported on the Winterton-On-Sea Facebook page on Tuesday. The post said: "We’ve been told a man had to be stopped from putting his child on the back of a seal at Winterton beach so he could take a picture. "If this...

A pair of desperate parents are urging people to sign the bone marrow register after their adorable daughter was struck down with a one-in-a-million rare condition. Myla Mae Hatcher, four, was suffering with large bruising and dots on her legs - but her parents thought it was just 'kids being kids'. However, when her dad John Hatcher, 28, casually showed his three-month-old son's doctor pictures of Myla Mae's rash he was told she needed to be seen to immediately. It...

A fifth man has been arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into an alleged Christmas terror plot. The 21-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism last night (Friday) at 11pm. Following his detention counter terrorism police have swooped on a residential address and a business the Fir Vale and Firth Park areas of Sheffield, South Yorks. Both addresses are currently being searched. The fifth arrest comes after...

  An 89-year-old curling champion has been banned from the club he founded after attempting to access the ice with his wheelchair. John Stevenson has been told he is longer welcome at Greenacres Curling, which he set up in 1979. The pensioner angered the current owner of the club in Howwood, Renfrewshire, by attempting to take his wheelchair onto the rink after he was warned not to, Mr Stevenson was still curling up until a year ago but had to...

An A & E department in Cornwall is at “breaking point” as the number of patients waiting over four hours and number of ambulances queuing outside has increased beyond manageable levels, reports Cornwall Live. It comes after an extremely busy night on Wednesday with reports of ambulances queuing outside the emergency department. A patient called Billy Billy got in touch with Pirate FM, the local radio station, saying: "I'm currently sat waiting with my sick mother in an ambulance outside the...

With barely hours left until the end of the year, Donald Trump may have just tweeted his dumbest tweet of the year yet. There have been quite a few contenders this year, especially this tweet incriminating himself. But the climate sceptic President hell-bent on removing science from government departments as well as removing the USA from the crucial Paris climate change agreement that every other country signed up to against all odds, turned to the topic of global warming with...

2017 has blessed the viewing public with some truly outstanding films, including Moonlight and Blade Runner: 2049. The heights of both direction and cinematography have been pushed to their limits, but alas there has to be a flipside. This list is a run down of some of the worst films we’ve seen this year, all of them are terrible in their own way; some are misogynistic, some are puerile, and some are just naff. Justice League (Dir. Zack Snyder) Warner...