Megan the Rottweiler was hailed a life-saver after opening a door to paramedics as her seriously-ill owner lay unconscious. Three-year-old Megan bounced on the handle until the door sprung open after her owner had passed out and was close to death. Gary Gregory, 32, had collapsed at his home in Felixstowe, Suffolk, and despite managing to crawl to the phone to call 999, he then passed out again. He had suffered serious internal bleeding – and paramedics say it’s likely...

Shocking news has emerged from the Samaritans that there is a direct link between poverty and suicide, according to their new report. The report, Dying from Inequality, found that in places that suffer from higher levels of poverty and low income also have higher rates of suicide. The report found that the risk of suicide increases during economic decline and recession. As the pressure to make ends meet increases people are pushed into situations they feel they have no way...

It is news that will anger many Brexiteers, who wanted to leave the EU to curb migration into the UK, but migration might not fall in Brexit Britain. A Lords report has said that ending the free movement of Labour, Post-Brexit, might not actually lead to fewer people coming to the UK to live and work. Various sectors, such as farming, need migrant workers to keep their businesses going. Work is seasonal and they can’t fill the vacancies using UK...

Limitations are often seen as things that hold us back and most would see a heart condition as exactly that. However, for Jonathan Stretton-Downes a 28 year old fraternal twin nothing could be further from the truth... I’ve had five heart surgeries and I’ve never let in hold me back. I don’t want my surgery to define me or dictate my life. But there have been a number of occasions over the years where people have discovered my condition and...

A repeat offender, who left a man with 13 skull fractures, has gone on a crime rampage after being granted early release from prison. Sick Brian Ramsay, 26 came to public attention after viciously attacking Angus Gallacher, leaving him unrecognisable and close to death. The victim in hospital He left Angus Gallacher with 13 skull fractures, three broken fingers, fractured ribs and a damaged ear drum after attacking him in the street. Ramsay was on a tag when he carried...

Faith Warner, 38, decided to flog the machine - which has been gathering dust in her garage for years - after she did some research on it. She discovered the huge computer originally sold for anything between £100,000 to £150,000 - but she has listed it on the online auction site with a modest starting price of £5,000. Faith said: "My dad, Paul Warner, used to run an engineering firm in Hatherleigh but in his spare time he wrote for...

In 2015, it was reported that more than 300 million portions of fish and chips are eaten in Britain each year, with cod being the most popular choice, by far. Battered fish, is fine – but with such rapidly depleting stocks of cod, it’s difficult to understand why so many of us traditionally eat it, almost religiously, each Friday night. Let’s be honest, more than 99 per-cent of us would struggle to tell the difference between a tranche of battered...

Andrew Scott is a lean and yet crumpled waif of a Hamlet who looks like he buys his clothes from Zara. Appearances are deceptive and helpless innocence isn’t everything though. As he waits as Angus Wright’s Claudius ignores his nephew in favour of Luke Thompson’s more buoyant Laertes he becomes a dark cloud which slowly and surely makes its presence felt on everyone else even though Hamlet is silent. In fact, Scott’s first entrance is so unannounced and unassuming and...

By Jessica Taylor At noon on Saturday, March 4, I joined an estimated 250,000 people who lined the streets around Tavistock Square to march to Parliament, protesting against cuts to the NHS. After dragging myself up 175 steps at Russell Square Underground Station, I followed a crowd on their way to assemble around a small, rickety stage at the corner of the square. Chanting of ‘Whose NHS? Our NHS’ had already begun before speakers took to the microphones. The stage...