The Jet2 pilot also joked the plane was going to be "hanging upside down, performing experiments" and he would be playing Twister with his co-pilot during the flight.

Savage cuts to the police force is making the UK a more dangerous place to live in, according to crime commissioner. West Midlands police and crime commissioner David Jamieson warned that having fewer officers to tackle a sharp an increase in crime is a “deadly equation.” Jamieson told the BBC’s Today programme in an interview over the weekend: “The homicide team in the West Midlands is actually at bursting point at the moment dealing with the many serious incidents they’ve had,” he...

The 1993 murder of James Bulger was shocking both in its brutality and in that its perpetrators were just ten years old. It seemed that both the public and the press were at a loss to understand how it happened, how two children ended up committing such a violent murder. When something like this happens there is, I think, a need to find something to blame, to find a problem that will explain the event away and allow us to...

A group of almost 40 MPs have come together to sign an open letter pleading for a second referendum over Brexit, reports the Daily Mirror. The MPs form a cross party alliance hoping that the nation is given another chance to decide if leaving the EU is the what they really want. The letter reads: “Brexit is taking longer and costing more than we thought, and it’s been changing our communities, our hospitals and our job prospects in ways that...

PCSOs Louis Saravanamuttu and Louie Parker-Hall, of West Midlands Police, were on patrol when they came across the blaze at around 8pm on July 26

The 83-year-old swapped the kitchen for the stage

Cotswolds Dogs & Cats Home stopped selling the dolls amid complaints about two dolls placed in the clothing shop window

The Department for Transport has announced that it is extending the Blue Badge scheme so that more people with ‘invisible’ health problems, such as autism and mental health problems, can now apply. The Blue Badge scheme offers accessible parking for people who find travel difficult, allowing them to park closer to their destination than other drivers. Until now, it was only physically disabled people who were eligible for Blue Badges because of the barriers they face when it comes to...

Jacob Abraham, 15, wrote on the app “if you want to mess with me, come mess with me around my yard” as a challenge to the older drug dealers keen to protect their "county lines"