Category: News

But on closer reading, deliver lessons in culture and language along with punchlines Have I ever told you the one about the businessman who gave a presentation to an English-speaking audience in Czech? Every time he cracked even the feeblest of jokes his interpreter handled it with great aplomb, and the audience burst out laughing […]

A self-isolating married couple said it sounded ‘like a bomb had gone off’ when a car smashed into their house. Robin Deane, 74, Carol, 66, were upstairs in the bedroom during last night’s collision, which completely wiped out their downstairs toilet and structurally damaged the building. Now it is not safe for them to live […]

A woman who caused anxiety to elderly people in isolation by pestering them for cash late at night during lockdown has been spared jail. Emma Richie, 39, from Redcar, also spat at a Morrison’s worker who asked her to move on when she was caught begging outside the supermarket. She never claimed to have coronavirus, […]

A part-time DJ has been jailed after being caught with ‘some of the most horrific and disturbing’ child abuse images investigators had ever seen. Haitch Macklin, 38, fantasised about raping and killing a child while he rented out access to his catalogue to other paedophiles via an encrypted messaging app for £10 a month. Police […]

A frontline NHS worker was left devastated after finding her car had been broken into as she finished her sixth night shift of the week. Sarne Mawby, 56, had left her vehicle in the staff car park at Birmingham Children’s Hospital. She had worked a 72-hour week, including an extra shift transporting seriously ill children […]

A former martial arts fighter violently attacked his partner after she found out his true identity and read news reports about how he’d beaten up a former girlfriend. Abbi Hainey had been in a six-week relationship with Dominic McCluskey, who had used an alias name to hide his violent past from her, but dumped him […]

A man has been arrested in connection with a police investigation into the deaths of 39 people, who were found in a lorry in Essex last year. Police arrested a man, aged 42, in London today on suspicion of an immigration offence. A spokesman from Essex Police said: ‘A man has been arrested in London […]

We love our dogs but they sure can be daft creatures. Whether they’re stealing sex toys and cuddling them or just wearing grandma’s false teeth, they often get up to no good. One man was left in hysterics after his dog stole a pair of fake teeth and ran around the house wearing them. Thomas […]