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Librarian late for flight used bomb threat to delay Gatwick plane
Jacob Meir Abdellak would never have made the Norwegian flight from Gatwick to Los Angeles, so he decided to alert police to a fictional threat.
One teen critical & three others wounded after London attack which left two nearly disembowelled
Fight erupted between teens on Camberwell estate.
Krankies prank on Donald Trump goes viral
A prank tweet to Donald Trump has gone viral after it caused outrage amongst American Republicans. The old photo shows "Wee Jimmy Krankie" sporting a Make America Great Again cap with a plea to get the school to overturn a decision to remove the hat. The tweet by Bri Spong Un says Jimmy is a "huge fan and a retweet might make the school let him wear his cap". Although Trump has yet to retweet the photo it has caused...
Man, 40, charged with murder of Britain’s Got Talent NHS choir nurse Simonne Kerr
The 31-year-old was part of the NHS B-Positive choir. Her son died of sickle cell anaemia when he was six-years-old
Teen boy and woman arrested after man stabbed to death on another night of violence in the capital
Emergency services were called to a home in Waltham Forest, east London, at 4.40am today (Fri).
Amazingly preserved remains of 99 million year old beetle that crawled alongside T-Rex found in amber
It is thought to be the oldest discovered pollinator of the first flowers.
Birmingham mosques attacked during prayers after suspected terror at Westminster
Officers were called to the Masjid Qamarul Islam and Al-hijrah mosques in the Small Heath area of the city at about 10pm on Wednesday (15/8).
Labour Party reports newspapers to press regulator over Corbyn Tunisia memorial reports
The Labour party has made a formal complaint to the press regulator over newspaper coverage of Jeremy Corbyn’s attendance at a memorial to those killed when Israel bombed the Tunisian PLO headquarters. The Labour leader, a backbencher back in 2014 was attending a conference at the invitation of the Tunisian president and human rights campaigner Moncef Marzouki. As part of the conference Jeremy Corbyn attended a wreath laying ceremony for those, including civilians, killed in an Israeli bombing of the...
Pesticide autism link for mums to be
The study adds to evidence chemicals used to protect crops can harm babies' brains in the womb