Ant McPartlin, the television presenter, has pleaded guilty to a charge of drink-driving after a crash in London. Seven uniformed police are forming a cordon outside Wimbledon Magistrates where TV presenter Ant McPartlin appeared on a drink driving charge. McPartlin faced a charge of being twice over the limit when he was in a three-car smash. The 42-year-old was held after being involved in a collision with two other cars, one of which was carrying a four-year-old girl. McPartlin was alleged...

An Army hero bravely revealed how she was once a child prostitute who was raped hundreds of times after being pimped out by a man she met at her local mall. Amber Causey, now a celebrated US Army veteran with two children and two master's degrees, has devoted her life to ending the child trafficking trade. 29-year-old Amber was just 16 when she was trafficked by a stranger who flirtatiously dropped a note with his number at her feet. She...

Daniel Roberts invented a procedure where leavings are flash frozen before being encased in resin and polished to a sheen - like bowling balls.

A teenage boy has appeared in court charged with the rape and murder of a 14-year-old schoolgirl who was found dead in a park. Tragic Viktorija Sokolova was discovered by a passer-by in West Park, Wolverhampton just before 7am on Thursday (12/4). Nothing could be done to save the teenager, known as Tori, who died as a result of "blunt force trauma to the head". A 16-year-old Wolverhampton boy appeared at Dudley Magistrates Court today (16/4) and spoke only to...

Following the success of their Tart London catering company, established in 2012, Jemima Jones and Lucy Carr-Ellison have just released their debut cookbook – ‘A Love of Eating: Recipes by Tart London’. Featuring over 100 new recipes, the book features dishes spanning from breakfasts to simple one-pot dishes, through to salads and vegetable-focussed dishes and, finally, desserts. These are all complete with a prominent focus on menu planning (as outlined towards the beginning of the book) and honest, full-flavoured food. Accompanying these...

A worrying new report has highlighted how Tory cuts have caused a crisis in homelessness among young people. The documents discovered that delays in supplying Universal Credit payments on time were forcing people onto the streets, in desperation. With no access to welfare payments they have no option but to sleep on the streets, or in refuges supplied by charities. According to the survey carried out by Homeless Link, a charity that works with homeless people, over ninety per cent...

These adorable photographs show harvest mice playing around and climbing on branches of wheat and flowers in the spring sunshine. The eight mice, which are a mere three to five cm long, are owned by amateur photographer Alex Meek, 31, who loves his furry friends like his very own family. He said that the little rodents are hard to find in the wild so shot the photographs in his conservatory on last year's wheat stalks. Alex said: "People absolutely love...

A midwife who was sacked for taking too many sick days has won an employment tribunal - and will be heading back to WORK. Jane Greaves, 46, was sacked from Wakefield Pinderfield's Hospital after contracting a kidney infection at work because the birthing centre didn't have a staff toilet. She said low staffing levels meant she was unable to leave the unit to go to the toilet, which is a two-minute walk away in another department. Her dismissal was described...

If you had been watching films as they were released in 1993, there must have been a fairly jarring moment when, within days of each other, The Sandlot and This Boy’s Life were released. As we discussed last week, The Sandlot idealises and romanticises growing up in the America of the early 60s. It’s about growing up over a summer, building a group of friends and overcoming some of the common challenges of being a kid. The subject matter of...