After train users have been slapped with their regular yearly ticket rise Virgin Trains has now "apologised unreservedly" for a tweet which some social media users described as "sexist". In response to a complaint about being referred to as "honey", the official Virgin Trains East Coast Twitter account asked if she would "prefer 'pet' or 'love' next time". The passenger, Emily Lucinda Cole, 27, said she was "stunned" by the response. Many other people took to social media to share...

The Labour party go in to 2018 two points ahead of the Conservatives in the polls, according to the latest data. Jeremy Corbyn's party would take 42 per cent of the vote if we had an election tomorrow, with the embattled Conservatives narrowly behind on 40 per cent. The so-called "Lib Dem surge" seems to have amounted to very little with the party remaining on 7 per cent of the vote. UKIP (4 per cent) and the Green Party (1...

Scottish Parliament bosses have been urged to rethink spending £80,000 on using birds of prey to scare away pigeons after their effectiveness was called into question. Hawks and falcons are brought in regularly to fly over the Scottish Parliament building to deter pigeons from making it their home. But MSPs say that the unwanted birds have gotten wise to the scheme and simply wait for them to be taken away by their handler before settling back on the roofs and...

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And so the very first day of 2018 witnessed the departure of sporting titan, a man who, perhaps more than any other, has shaped his sport and made it what it is today. From a fringe pub sport to a global game that is enriching its major players with serious sums in front of packed houses up and down the country, darts wouldn’t be what it is today without Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor. Yet there is side to him that...

If this is how the Conservatives run a nationalised rail network then no wonder they aren't overly keen on bringing back British Rail. A new advert has been leaked online over 30 years since it was originally filmed with Jimmy Savile fronting the 'Age of the Train' campaign. The ad, which was commissioned by Margaret Thatcher, had to be canned after lawyers advised the then popular DJ had been having sex with bodies at a morgue in Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Bucks....

By Chris Woods Wealdstone slumped to a second successive home defeat after a chaotic 15-minute spell of first half defending saw the hosts concede three goals against Hampton & Richmond Borough. Beavers' debutant Elliott Charles scored all three as the Stones' defence struggled to cope with the forward all afternoon, who, on another day could have doubled his three goal tally. Bobby Wilkinson made just one change to the side that drew with Hampton on Boxing Day, Matt Day came...

Thirteen monkeys have died in a fire at a safari park. The blaze broke out in the Jungle Enclosure at Woburn Safari Park, Beds., in the early hours of this morning (tue), causing the roof to collapse. Staff and fire crews battled to save the Patas monkeys, but none of the thirteen animals could be saved. They were being kept inside for the winter months, but normally live outside in the park's 18-acre African Jungle enclosure. In a statement, a...

As the hosing crisis deepens with homelessness on the rise, especially in the capital, and other major cities, is has been revealed that over 11,000 dwellings in the UK have stood empty for over a decade. The research, carried out by the Lib Dems, used figures gather from 276 local councils also showed that over 216,000 homes have sat empty for over six months. There have been accusations that some of the wealthiest parts of the UK, in West London...