A teenage girl “nearly died” when her drink was spiked while on holiday in Malia. Emily Earle, 19, was on a girls’ holiday to the Greek island of Crete with four friends and was on her way to a party. But two hours later, as Emily was sipping her third drink, she started to feel… Read More »
The race to replace Rishi Sunak in the Conservative Party has officially begun, with six senior Tory MPs standing as candidates. Kemi Badenoch recently joined the competition alongside James Cleverly, Robert Jenrick, Dame Priti Patel, Tom Tugendhat and Mel Stride, declaring that capitalism is not a “dirty word”. Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman told The… Read More »
Andy Murray will once again team with Dan Evans in the second round of the men’s doubles at the Paris Olympics, taking to the tennis court for the final time on Tuesday afternoon. The 37-year-old confirmed she will retire from the sport after the Games and is looking to postpone hanging up her racket alongside… Read More »
What is a movie? It might sound like a stupid question, but it’s one that’s been echoing in my head since I left school. Deadpool and Wolverine Last Friday. Marvel’s cameo-filled, fourth-wall-breaking superhero sequel grossed a staggering $438.3 million in its opening weekend — a record for an R-rated movie. In many ways, it feels… Read More »
The Chancellor of the Exchequer’s decision to end the previously implemented universal winter fuel payment for pensioners unless they receive benefits has been described as “too narrow in light of the approaching winter conditions”. Up to £300 payments were made available to everyone over state pension age. However, those retiring from this winter will only… Read More »
It was a tense situation where cool heads were needed, and at the heart of it were a few seconds of video footage. In scenes viewed millions of times, an armed police officer is seen kicking someone in the head in a car park at Manchester Airport’s Terminal 2. What caused the officer to act… Read More »
A heartbroken Michigan mother will move a step closer to resolution Monday when an evidentiary hearing is scheduled for her petition to have her three sons, who have been missing for nearly 15 years, declared legally dead. Tanya Lynn Zuvers’ sons, Andrew, Alexander and Tanner Skelton, went missing in November 2010. They spent Thanksgiving with… Read More »
An innocent man will receive no compensation after police officers forced their way into his home. Leo Wallace-Barr first saw police outside his home in Speke on the Ring doorbell app, the Liverpool Echo reports. He was working a job in Ambleside, Cumbria, when the app ‘suddenly went crazy’. The doorbell caught a ‘large commotion’… Read More »
Lucy Letby will spend the rest of her life in prison as a ‘target’, a former prison officer has claimed. The former nurse was told she would die behind bars after being given an additional life sentence for the attempted murder of a baby girl earlier this month. Letby, 34, was found guilty at Manchester… Read More »
Ruqia Haidari wanted to have a love marriage. Instead, she entered into an arranged marriage when she was just 15 years old, and the relationship ended in divorce when she was 20. The case, heard in a Victorian court last week, said Haidari was considered a “bewa” by the Afghan Hazara community in Shepparton, where… Read More »