A fortune teller who correctly predicted Brexit using ASPARAGUS has revealed her top tips for 2018 - including Theresa May being ousted as Prime Minister. Jemima Packington, 61, is the world's only Asparamancer and claims she can peer into the future by tossing the veg in the air and interpreting how the spears land. She predicts that 2018 will see the US bring the world to the brink of serious conflict and the bursting of the Bitcoin bubble. She also...

An Indian restaurant has been fined more than £20,000 after a customer found a COCKROACH in his pilau rice. Environmental health officers visited the The Maharajah Restaurant in Luton, Beds., after the diner complained about the dead insect, which was buried in his meal. Inspectors from Central Bedfordshire Council found a build-up of dirt, grease and food debris to the pipework throughout the premises. The skirting boards throughout the kitchen were also so thick with grease and dirt that the...

Police launched a murder investigation after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Oxford. The boy, who was from Birmingham, was stabbed in Friars Wharf, close to the River Thames. He was attacked just before 8pm last night and died from his injuries in hospital. A woman aged 25 and a man aged 33, both from Oxford, have been arrested on suspicion of murder. A witness said: "I was coming back from work. There was a young bloke on...

Cadbury have been accused of short changing customers and wasting packaging after selling a variety box of treats – with just EIGHT biscuits inside. Pictures and video posted on social media show one disgruntled customer opening the ‘Cadbury Biscuit Assortment’ after receiving it as a gift. The customer’s wife, who works as a teacher, was given the box by one of her pupils before Christmas. The husband, from Birmingham, who does not want to be named for fear of embarrassing...

Theresa May was at pains yesterday to insist that a national A&E meltdown and 55 cancelled ops is NOT an NHS crisis. Even though Jeremy Hunt apologised for it, then appeared on TV again, insisting actually it wasn't a crisis as at least it’s not like last winter when loads of operations were cancelled 24 hours before. The Prime Minister and Health Secretary’s insistence that the current debacle across hospitals all over the UK is an unforeseeable consequence of winter...

The majority of Conservatives want to bring back the death penalty as a punishment, a major study of political activists has found. Academics have branded Tory members a "breed apart" from their Labour, Liberal Democrat and SNP counterparts after research revealed stark differences between them on a range of issues. The report by Queen Mary University of London found 54 per cent of Conservatives were in favour of the death penalty, compared to 23 per cent of SNP supporters, 9 per...

Jeremy Hunt is odds-on to lose his job as Secretary of State for Health. The embattled minister is overseeing one of the worse crises in NHS history this January, with 55,000 operations cancelled. Dr Taj Hasan, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, was one of many doctors to recently speak out about the scale of the crisis, warning that "we are seeing conditions people have not seen in their working lives." Dr Nick Scriven, President of the Society...

An adorable pup has become the first Christmas dog to be dumped. Eight-week-old mongrel Ronnie was bought online by his owner's ex-partner. But Ronnie was left at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home in south London on January 2 after his owner became homeless. While they had seen the dog purported to be Ronnie's mother, the buyers knew very little about his background. Bought online as a Christmas gift, eight-week-old Ronnie was the first arrival into Battersea Dogs & Cats Home...

Britain's fat cat bosses will have made more by lunchtime today than the average worker will earn in a year. Chief executives of FTSE 100 companies are paid a median average of £3.45m a year, which works out at 120 times the £28,758 collected by full-time UK workers on average. On an hourly basis the bosses will have earned more in less than three working days than the average employee will pick up this year, leading campaigners to dub the day...