More US schoolchildren have died this year than members of the country's military, The Washington Post has revealed. Following the deadly shooting in Houston on Friday new figures show that classrooms in the US are more dangerous than battlegrounds as the country comes to grips with a spiralling gun crisis. Ten children were killed at Santa Fe High School last week, bringing the total number of deaths to almost 30. A total of 22 school shootings have occurred so far this...

Cops believe the young feline was going to be used as bait for ferrets and dogs

Aqib Mazhar, 21, desperately tried to scramble into the back seat when he was knifed

Villagers held a May Day dance of defiance around the 50ft-high technicolour maypole before its removal

Jordyn Mavromatis, 22, brought thug Daniel O'Boyle to justice after spotting him attacking a woman

The home of the future will be so in tune with its owner it will be able to tell their mood, TV preferences and even if they’re hungry - due to smart tech engaging with their biometric data. The technology inside our homes will be so advanced it could even give us health warnings – based on smart toilets analysing our waste. That’s according to experts who have painted a picture of an average house just 50 years into the...

A new study had revealed that Government sanctions on benefit claimants have negative outcomes. The study of welfare conditionality discovered that the threat of sanctions, or the actual introduction of benefit cuts, did not help people get into work. The studies main finding is that “Benefit sanctions do little to enhance people’s motivation to prepare for, seek or enter paid work. They routinely trigger profoundly negative personal, financial, health and behavioural outcomes.” They tracked hundreds of claimants on their journey...

John Bercow is just 6/4 to step down as Speaker of the House of Commons this year and now priced at 16/1 to follow Ed Balls’ lead and switch politics for pirouettes by signing up for Strictly Come Dancing. Under fire for comments condemned as “completely unacceptable” by government ministers, Bercow’s future as speaker is on very thin ice and he could be looking for a new job by the time Parliament sits after their summer break in September. Bercow...

Kevin Tomlinson promised to plaster Monk's face on his backside if Birmingham beat Fulham to clinch their Championship survival on the final day of the season