Naturally, cyclists are very protective over their bikes and it’s for good reason too, since there are around 376,000 bicycles stolen every year in the UK. Moreover, it’s not always so easy to just replace a stolen bike, due to financial constraints, which inevitably leads to the inconvenience of having ...
It's a thin and shaky cable that stretches between bemused interest and hysteric obsession and sometimes you just stand there in the middle, wondering which way to walk. Casual glances at a news subject's headlines with only an occasional long read is in the long run probably safer for mental ...
After years of campaigning by women’s rights activists, on 1 August, the lower house of Jordan’s parliament voted for the full repeal of Article 308 without exception, meaning that there should no longer be a way for a rapist to escape punishment by marrying his victim. Women’s and human rights organizations ...
“If you’re a young black man, you’re more likely to be in a prison cell than studying at a top university,” wrote David Cameron in January last year, in an article for The Sunday Times. Fortunately, the former Prime Minister was wrong, according to the BBC. However, his benign assessment does ...
Police are investigating after a snared dead fox was bizarrely left strung up on garden gate in broad daylight. Locals claim the homeowner caught the vixen in a snare trap set in his back garden to "catch rabbits to eat" - and then hung it at the roadside. Animal activists ...
When Hunter S. Thompson was writing the article series for Rolling Stone that became the book Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, for my money still the best book ever written on US politics, he combined factual reporting, interviews and out-and-out hallucinatory fantasies to give both the facts ...
A 82-year-old woman was left bloodied after she was badly beaten and strangled with her dog lead in an unprovoked attack. Catherine Smith first spotted her attacker a woman as she took her dog for a walk in her mobility scooter in a nature garden in south London. As she ...
Life-like child sex dolls are being sold through Amazon and eBay to British paedophiles who use them as a 'companion' to satisfy their sick desires. The dolls, worth between £800 to over £1,000, feature the body of a young child between six and ten-years-old and sneak past border force officers ...
An e-fit image of a man wanted for flashing has been ridiculed on social media - with people likening it to an ALIEN. The bizarre computer-generated image shows a man with no hair, brown eyes and light facial hair around his mouth. However, colourful areas around the eyes and cheeks ...