He said it was a tribute to Mark Hamill returning to the Star Wars franchise

The man slept next to another man on a pair of discarded mattresses in the centre of Edinburgh in temperatures as low as -5C at night.

Claims he would need to take out a loan for any fine he gets for failing to disclose information to pensions regulators.

There was speculation after Iain McNicol announced that he would be standing down as the General Secretary of the Labour Party on Friday evening. The shock resignation had not been anticipated even by many of his close colleagues. He will stay in his role until the Labour NEC recommends a successor to be announced at the next party conference. Jennie Formby and Andrew Murray of the Unite union have both been mentioned as possible successors. Both are close to Jeremy Corbyn....

Today veteran MP Paul Flynn’s Private Member’s Bill that would have paved the way for Alfie Dingley, 6, who has a sever form of epilepsy and others like him to legally receive the medicinal cannabis they urgently need was filibustered by Tory and Labour MP’s. Speaking outside parliament Newport West MP Paul Flynn and his Welsh Labour colleague Tonia Antoniazzi fumed at their own party for letting down those Alfie whose case they had championed in Parliament. Paul Flynn said...

A homeless man has been found dead behind the shutters of an empty shop in Chelmsford following a night of sub-zero temperatures. Police and paramedics were called to the scene around midday today after one of the coldest nights of the year. Temperatures in Chelmsford dipped to a low of -1.7 degrees Celsius at 4am last night. It is understood that the man had been living behind the shutters. Andy Abbot, a prominent campaigner in the region, told Essex Live: t’s...

An 84-year-old Brit has been hailed as the world's oldest BOBSLEIGHER and is still sliding - on his own personal track. Grandfather-of three Bruce Ropner was crowned the 1962 British two-man bobsleigh champion just three years after jumping in a toboggan for the first time. The octogenarian has the only privately owned, dry bobsleigh push-start track in the country at his son's estate, where he still jumps in for a slide. And despite two false hips and two new knees...

I’ve never felt cool enough for Shoreditch. Even when I used to wear questionably tight jeans, spent all of my money on vinyl records and devoted some of my late teenage years to writing about emerging Indie bands for the NME, I never quite managed to fit in. In 2018 though, now that much of Shoreditch has gone from up-and-coming to up-and-gone - with everyone having migrated to further reaches of Hackney or Peckham - I imagined things may have...

Every so often, perusing the pages of Rightmove, one will come across a property that seems too good to be true. Well as the adage goes, if it looks too good to be true, it probably is. Many a buyer will wait on the phone to the selling estate agent excitedly wondering what it would be like to live in that Chelsea flat or Hampstead maisonette that should be well outside of their price range, only to eventually be told...