Twisted killer delivered Christmas cards to his neighbours the day after murdering blind woman in a brutal hammer attack and hiding her body in his cupboard Mark Smith killed Jillian Grant last December and hid body at North Shields flat Police searched flat after he set fire to his parent’s home in Heaton, Newcastle Smith admitted murder but killed himself […]

Sgt Ian Birkin, who leads the Nottinghamshire force's Missing From Home team found a flurry of female admirers after he discussed his work on Nottinghamshire Police's official Facebook account. One said: "All women will be going missing after seeing this," which received more than 300 likes. Another said: "Missing! My missus, 5ft 3ins, brown eyes and shoulder length brown hair. […]

In 2013, it was considered a great idea: an opportunity for Edmonton to make tens of millions a year in revenue by selling its waste management expertise to China. But the plan to have integrated garbage management in Beijing was quietly mothballed by city council in its final regular meeting of the year. When the concept of Waste RE-Solutions was […]

Plane crazy! Astonishing moment a parent helps her toddler graffiti an in-flight tray table The child was filmed on an unknown flight drawing all over several tray tables  Footage shows the child’s hand being guided by its parent during the incident  Social media users hit out at the parents after the footage was posted online  This is the remarkable moment […]

Two British-Indian brothers Shreeraj and Supreme Laturia took their wives and three children to Iceland for a dream four-day getaway on Christmas Eve. Supreme’s wife Khushi and Shreeraj’s wife Rajshree and their ten-month-old baby Shreeprabha died when their 4×4 plunged from a bridge on Thursday. Both brothers and their wives work for different banks as chartered accountants in Canary Wharf. […]

Britain enjoys its second sunniest year since records began in 1929 with 1575 hours of sunshine as forecasters say climate change will make long hot summers more likely Sustained spell of high pressure made May brightest ever, with 246 hours of sun System continued through June and July, contributing significantly to the total High annual temperature means 2018 could be […]

‘Despicable’ moment a smartly-dressed man with an English accent fires capsicum spray in a bus driver’s face – before cowardly running away Sydney bus driver has been sprayed in the face least six times with a spray  The bus stopped on Oxford Street in Surry Hills about 10.40pm on Thursday  A man got on the bus but the driver told […]

Cincinnati: An Ohio police department says an officer encountered an unexpected traveller during a traffic stop: A kangaroo named "Scooby-Roo." ‘Scooby-Roo’ as pictured by an officer of the Norwood police department. Officer Phil Harvey of the Norwood Police Department, which serves a Cincinnati suburb, said he met the "adorable" kangaroo during an early-morning traffic stop on Thursday. He pulled over […]

They have asthma attacks, write their last wills, soil themselves, and text family members final goodbyes. They’re not refugees from a war zone — they’re some of the 4.1 million students subjected to school lockdowns in the 2017-18 school year. Lockdowns have become standard practice in the US education system, a consequence of the nation’s gun violence epidemic in schools. But […]