A dad who was told he had a trapped nerve after collapsing at home was given the devastating news he is suffering with an incurable brain tumour. Neil Grist had gone to a sports therapist and was doing exercises to help relieve the tingling in his legs when he suddenly suffered 16 seizures in a day. Paramedics who came to Mr Grist's home when he first suffered a fit and fainted in March this year said the pain he suffered...

There's been a huge swing in Brexit sentiment over the past few months, a referendum tracker has revealed. The number of people who think we were wrong for voting for Brexit has jumped significantly while the number of people thinking the opposite has plummeted. Just 42 per cent now think we were right to leave the European Union, with 47 per cent saying we were wrong. That marks a 5 point split - the biggest gulf there has ever been....

A teacher unwittingly saved the life of a six-year-old pupil after urging her to get an eye test - which revealed a massive brain tumour. Nia Ferris, 31, noticed something was wrong with Evie Hughes' vision and advised her parents to consult an optician in case she needed glasses. But they were stunned to be told their daughter was completely blind in one eye because of a slow-growing tumour which had probably been there since birth. Evie was rushed to...

  A terrified mum was left covered with blood after a knife-wielding man tried to carjack her while her baby slept in the back seat - in a Tesco car park. Charlene Gibbard, 31, was sitting in the passenger seat of her car while daughter Eila, two, slept in the back seat. But she says when husband Westley (corr), 31, popped into Tesco in Sheerness, Kent, the vicious knifeman opened her car door and got in - while threatening her...

Until recently, Leicester Square’s only redeeming assets were the Heliot at The Hippodrome Casino’s reasonably-priced steaks, or Burger King’s magical soft drinks dispenser – spilling various drinks we know and love but in outlandish, unfamiliar flavours. The rest of the square remained a toxic wasteland of woefully bad restaurants, the dreaded M&M shop and what’s perhaps London’s most overpriced cinema. On the edge of the Radisson Blu Edwardian Hampshire Hotel, Leicester Square Kitchen is the third restaurant from the group...

This shocking picture shows an "incredibly thin" dog which had bones and a massive tumour protruding from its side after her owner failed to get help. The sick and emaciated dog suffered from an infected one-and-a-half kilo tumour and had to be put down because her owner failed to call for help until it was too late. Switch, 14, also had a severe infection on both her ears, and she was so thin as she lay on a blood-stained blanked...

The fourth qualifying round of the FA Cup gets underway this weekend with several mouth-watering London ties to get your teeth into. The BBC will broadcast Saturday's early kick-off between St Albans City and Boreham Wood. The Hertfordshire derby, to be played at Clarence Park, sees local rivals St Albans of the sixth tier pitted against Boreham Wood of the fifth tier, with a large crowd expected to turn out just north of the capital. Elsewhere, TV commentator Martin Tyler's club Hampton & Richmond...

World Cup qualification is over, meaning the Premier League returns this weekend with some exciting match ups. Liverpool and Man Utd face off Saturday lunchtime in the weekend’s biggest fixture. The Red Devils have had a great start to the season, but a trip to Anfield will be their toughest challenge yet. Crystal Palace’s struggles only get harder as they take on the champions Chelsea at Selhurst Park, while Man City look to remain unbeaten taking on Stoke at home....

Three coppers watched a man in custody suffer a head injury and a ten-minute fit but failed to alert doctors - 48 hours before he was found dead in his cell, a disciplinary heard was told. David Fournier D'albe, 40, was found unresponsive in a police cell at 03.20am on December 30, 2014, and was pronounced dead by paramedics shortly after. He had been arrested two days beforehand for criminal damage following a "difficult incident" on the street that had...