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  Fishermen are kicking off because naughty dolphins keep wrecking their nets - and stealing their catch. New research has discovered fishing nets suffer six times more damage when dolphins are around. And the problem is only going to get worse for fishing fleets, as overfishing is forcing dolphins and boat captains closer together than ever before. University of Exeter researchers studied the impact of bottlenose dolphins on fisheries off northern Cyprus. They said Mediterranean overfishing had created a "vicious...

Police have launched another murder investigation in London after a young man was stabbed to death on Easter Sunday. The man, thought to be 20, suffered a fatal stab wound at around 1:10 on Sunday morning, after leaving a nearby bar. Met Police say they attended the scene, in posh Wandsworth, south west London, along with the London Ambulance Service. Despite the best efforts of officers and paramedics he was pronounced dead at the scene just before 2am. Formal identification...

Historic Oxford University has come under fire after a department invited alumni to a dinner - saying 'partners and wives' were welcome. The email was sent from the Department of Materials Alumni Association, asking if graduates would like to attend a dinner event at Oxford's St Edmund Hall. Graduate Dr Anna Ploszajski tweeted a screenshot of the email using #everydaysexism, which is popularly used to share accusations of sexism on a day-to-day basis. The award-winning materials scientist and engineer wrote:...

Britain's highest paid university vice-chancellor claimed 58 first-class train journeys and three first-class flights on expenses in just over a year, figures show. Controversial Dame Glynis Breakwell has already announced she is leaving her role following a row about her £471,000-a-year salary. It has now emerged the University of Bath vice-chancellor claimed 58 first-class train journeys and three first-class flights between August 2016 to the end of November 2017. This is contrary to the university’s own regulations on travel costs,...

Thousands of people could be in Cambridge today (sat) to witness the funeral of world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking.

The Daily Express has been accused of making the Cliffs of Dover whiter in their nationalist front-page splash to mark the one year countdown to Brexit. Photographer Justin Foulkes, who took the original photo of the cliffs, highlighted the difference in a tweet today. In his image the cliffs are noticeably greener. But the dark shades seem to have been touched out of the version used in The Express, which was overlaid with a Boris Johnson quote just one day...

Brexit has given people license to be openly racist according to Baroness Lawrence. Speaking to LBC this morning the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence said instances of racism are on the rise in Britain, and the Brexit vote is to blame for bringing it to the surface. Stephen Lawrence was killed in a racist attack in Eltham 25 years ago, the murder that led to the Macpherson Report which revealed an institutional racism in the Metropolitan Police. According to the latest...

Police investigating the Hatton Garden robbery have made another arrest - almost three years after the massive heist. Flying Squad detectives investigating the April 2015 raid have nicked a 57-year-old man. They arrested the man at an address in Islington, north London, on Tuesday morning, on suspicion of non-residential burglary. A Met Police spokesperson said: "The man was arrested after a search warrant was carried out at an address in Islington at approximately 07:30hrs. "A number of items were seized...

Sue Ann Cornwell, 52, led mum-to-be Miriam Finch, 21, to safety and laid on top of her to shield her from bullets as gunman Stephen Paddock gunned down 58 concertgoers