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Joseph McCann, 32, is being hunted by cops after two women, both in their 20s, were grabbed off the street and bundled into a people carrier in separate attacks on the same day.

A worrying report from the Social Mobility Commission has found that social mobility hasn’t changed since 2014. Its State of the Nation investigation concluded that inequality will remain in society unless the Government takes urgent action to change the status quo. The Prime Minister, Theresa May, pledged to tackle the “burning injustice” in Britain when she took the top job back in 2016. However, the following year all of the commissioners quit their roles monitoring social mobility, claiming that the...

Those exposed to neonicotoids - the world's most common insect repellant - muster only a third of their normal distance, according to the study

Theresa May will become the first Conservative leader in the party's history to face a grassroots vote to oust her after rank and file activists forced an Emergency General Meeting to discuss the party’s leadership. The Prime Minister is set to be hauled in front of a meeting of 800 constituency chairmen and senior activists in June, who will decide whether to demand her resignation for failing to deliver Brexit. Although the vote will not be binding, losing it would...

Warming surface water is rapidly destroying the north west sector of Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf, say scientists

The two males and one female – who cannot be named for legal reasons – were targeted by paedophile Ian Samson at Lord and Lady Polworth Children’s House in Edinburgh.

President Trump has embarked on the 2020 election campaign, gleefully deflecting attention from any further investigations of his affairs by going on the offence 'bigly'. In a rally in Wisconsin this weekend he whipped up his crowd of MAGA hat wearing followers by offending just about everyone from the “sick” news media to “scum” FBI investigators. In a rambling rant that was demented even by his standards, he turned to a myth he’s peddled before – that Democrats are “aggressively...

Police have launched an investigation into a triple stabbing in a city centre after a night of shocking violence.  Three men were stabbed after violence erupted in the early hours of Sunday morning. West Midlands Police were called to North Street, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, just after midnight when two men were found on the floor with serious stab wounds. They were taken to hospital and a third man, also found to have been stabbed, sustained minor injuries. Police are trawling...

Nearly a third of graduates are too educated for their job, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has found as part of its quarterly Economic Review. The data shows to 34.2 per cent of those who graduated after 2007 are overeducated for the profession they are in compared to just 21.7 per cent of those who graduated before 1992. London is the UK region with the highest proportion of overeducated workers, which is partly due to the relatively high proportion...