44 female BBC stars pen open letter to Tony Hall after gender pay gap reveal, which has shocked many in the media world and beyond. The women of the BBC have signed an open letter stating that they would like Tony Hall to sort the gender pay gap now. Read the full letter, below. Dear Tony, The pay details released in the annual report showed what many of us have suspected for many years … that women at the BBC...

A 20-year-old man died after swallowing "an object" as he was chased by police into a late night store in east London. Scotland Yard said they chased the man into the shop on Kingsland Road in Hackney after stopping a car at 1:45am on Saturday morning. Yours Locally convenience store, Hackney. The youth went into the Turkish-run Yours Locally convenience store where he was seen by police "trying to swallow an object". CCTV footage taken from one of the store's...

Tilbury itself, as a Town, dates back to 1812, although there has been a settlement and farms here since before Tudor times. It was at Tilbury Fort that QE1 made her famous address to her troops pre-Armada in 1588. The major industry in the Town is still the Tilbury Docks, though these now employ only a fraction of the people that they did in it's prime years. It is still a hugely busy Port, but now mechanisation and containers dominate....

Police were called after a terrified woman opened her front door - and found a live SNAKE. Officers went to the woman's home in Evesham, Worcs., and eventually captured the animal which had slithered into her garage at 10pm on Friday (21/7). The gritter was eventually captured and identified as a milk snake. It was taken to nearby Vale Wildlife Hospital for safekeeping. A spokesman from West Mercia Police said: "At about 10pm we had a call from a member...

This amazing set of pictures shows the iconic kingfisher's dive for food in a Suffolk river. It is the result of hundreds of attempts by wildlife snapper Vince Burton to capture what to the naked eye is a flash of blue and orange followed by a splash. This truly amazing set of pictures shows the iconic kingfisher's dive for food in a Suffolk river. Vince, 40, has spent thousands of hours observing kingfishers in the wild attempting to photograph the...

A drunk man broke into his partner's home and attacked her because she had voted 'voted Labour at the election' days before. The shocking attack led to jail time for the perpetrator. Prosecuting Stephen Parker said Cochrane slapped and punched Ms Greenwood and squeezed her cheek before saying: "That's what you get for voting Labour." Ms Greenwood tried to leave the house but Cochrane blocked her path to the front door and said: "I am going to kill you." Burnley...

Aveley has given its name to the Aveley Interglacial period around 200,000 years ago. Important evidence of the local flora and fauna of the period and some signs of occupation by Neanderthal humans have been found there. In Domesday the names has various spellings – Alvithelea, Alvileia and Alvilea. The name means Aelfgyth's wood clearing. A variation, in 1418, is Alvythele. John Newton, the author of Amazing Grace, lived in Aveley, which was the home of his father's second wife....

There was a time when banter would have gone down like an unsubsidised pint of bitter in the Houses of Parliament, but since the dawn of social media an increasing amount of MPs have taken to social media repartee as a means of polishing their public persona. And why not? After all, the likes of Twitter and Facebook have become the public's earpiece inside the walls of Westminster and ever since Donald Trump carved his way into the White House...

This hilarious photo shows a runaway COW spotted browsing the listings - at a local CINEMA. Trudi Maitland, 42, was on her to work just after 8.30am today (Fri) when she noticed the small heifer on the loose. It is unclear if it was looking at Dunkirk, Despicable Me 3 or Planet of the Apes which are all showing in the town as it gears up for the annual music festival. But mother-of-three Trudi managed to snap a photo of...