Judge has blasted magistrates who repeatedly bailed violent serial rapist allowing him to attack again
Carl Hartley, 26, was arrested and bailed an extraordinary five times on suspicion of committing separate rapes
Hedgehogs have disappeared from almost 80 percent of the British countryside
One of our favourite mammal is being wiped out by intensive farming and climate change, say scientists.
Wine of the Week: De Bortoli Woodfired Heathcote Sparkling
With autumn encroaching the time to ditch fresh bubbles for deeper shades of claret is almost upon us. But in true British fashion we will not go down without a fight, which is why I’ve picked this sparkling shiraz as a mid-way compromise. Hailing from from De Bortoli’s 80-hectare Central Victorian Heathcote vineyard in Australia this refreshing sparkling red comes from the same producers that make Noble One, which is a fascinating example of ingenious wine making. And if it’s...
Autism detection breakthrough
It looks for biomarkers and hoped soon all children on spectrum will be diagnosed quickly
Mother worked with son to smuggle £40k out of Britain in a pair of tights
Albanian Suzanna Sokolli, 57, tied the cash-stuffed stockings around her waist as she tried to leave Britain with her son, Xhino Mata, 24, through the Port of Dover.
London shooting victim, 14, was ‘groomed’ to sell drugs says his mum
Corey Junior Davis was gunned in a playground near his east London home last September in what is believed to be a turf war between rival gangs
Want to be intelligent? You need to hope your parents are
The DNA we inherit from our parents accounts for over two-thirds of the difference in intelligence between individuals, suggests a study
Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan died by drowning in bath
Dolores O'Riordan was 46 when she was found 'submerged face up' in the bath dressed in her pyjamas at the Hilton hotel in London in January
Film Review: The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Over the past couple of years there has been a growing conversation about representation in film. The Miseducation of Cameron Post isn’t the first coming of age film about an LGBT teen (indeed, it’s enough of a subgenre to have its own established cliches), nor is it the first of those to deal with ‘conversion therapy’ (1999’s But I’m A Cheerleader, also directed by a queer woman, looks at a similar situation with a more comedic eye). It is, however,...