Helen Goodman made a heartfelt plea for families on Universal Credit this festive period, saying it's not so much a merry Christmas as a Victorian Christmas that even Scrooge didn't think of. Almost a quarter of her constituents in Bishop Auckland will be affected by the changes in December which will leave ...
A games room consisting of a football themed bar in a converted loft has been crowned as the winning entry for Games Room of the Year 2017. The national competition drew hundreds of entries from all over the UK, with Graeme Strachan, of Brechin, Angus, taking the coveted prize. The games ...
Perhaps the best thing to come out of the US election was comic and impressionist Peter Serafinowicz’s Sassy Trump. Voicing Donald Trump’s actual words – only voiced “0.001% more catty” – helped us appreciate quite how shockingly barmy the flamboyant reality TV star’s outrageous ramblings really are. (Watch a fabulous example ...
The 17-year-old boy may have been plotting an ISIS-inspired terror attack at a JUSTIN BIEBER concert, the court heard. The lad searched for details of the venue's security just days before the Canadian popstar was due to play at the city's Principality Stadium, jurors were told. He also conducted more ...
The Foreign Secretary finally gave the British mum detained in Iran an unreserved apology in parliament. - After the shadow foreign secretary demanded he say sorry for his colossal blunder in an urgent question in the House of Commons. Emily Thornberry also called on Boris Johnson to stop endangering Nazanin ...
BREAKING: Parliament will get a meaningful vote on the terms of the final Brexit deal implementation, Brexit minister David Davis has told MPs, staving off a Tory rebellion in the Commons. David David has announced a government u-turn and succumbed to demands from MPs that parliament has a vote on the final Brexit deal. There will be ...
In any other situation a Twitter feud between two men trading insults about being "old" or "short and fat" would take pride of place in the basin of social media banality, but when the two people concerned are sitting on a nuclear arsenal and a combined army of over a million ...
Surprised police officers couldn't believe their luck when seven bulging bin bags full of cannabis were found dumped at the side of the road. The drugs were found by council officers on the A59 near Harrogate, North Yorks., early on Sunday morning. PC Amanda Hanusch-Moore from North Yorkshire police tweeted ...
The SFA have appointed a new manager who will take Scotland to an international tournament -- of the computer game Football Manager. Findlay Mair, 25, claims he will be the first manager to represent the Scotland men's team at an international tournament since 1998. He will pit his gaming skills ...