The group – all aged 18 – trampled over flowers beds before kicking and bending over a silhouetted statue in Rochdale in a "drunken rampage", a court heard. Police were alerted to the attack outside Touchstones art gallery in Rochdale, Greater Manchester and played back CCTV to see the youngsters pulling up flowers and vandalising the statue. The damage was […]

The little boy who wants a new face for Christmas: Five-year-old who was badly burned in a house fire says ‘I just want to be like other children’ in heart-breaking letter to Santa Bakhtiyer Sindrov, five, suffered serious burns in a fire in Uzbekistan as a baby His disfigured face has left him unable to eat properly or even go to […]

MPs and activists are said to be making preparations for another referendum in case Parliament forces a second vote on the country. Sources told the Financial Times that an aide to political strategist Lynton Crosby, the mastermind behind some of the Tories election victories, has been talking to Eurosceptic MPs about plotting the future of Brexit. Informal chats on what […]

BEIJING – North Korea’s foreign minister said his country remains committed to ending its nuclear weapons program in talks Friday with his Chinese counterpart, according to China’s foreign ministry. The talks in Beijing between Ri Yong Ho and Wang Yi came amid a lack of progress in international efforts to persuade North Korea to reverse its drive to build a […]

Kyle Larsen (Appleton Police Department) A Wisconsin man posed as a doctor and gave medication to a handful of unsuspecting patients, authorities said. Prosecutors said Kyle Larsen, 32, of Appleton, operated Medical Psychology of Wisconsin and met with people with mental health diagnoses, including one patient with schizophrenia, the Appleton Post-Crescent reported. "He treated a number of different patients, according to […]

The City Council on Thursday put its political clout behind a proposal in Albany to overhaul state health care by creating a “Medicare for all” program that would raise taxes by $139 billion a year. The single-payer plan would extend coverage to the roughly 1 million uninsured New Yorkers — including undocumented immigrants — and eliminate all co-pays and deductibles. […]

The street divided by Christmas: Festive neighbours decorate their homes with thousands of Christmas lights… but the other side of the road is almost in total darkness Byron Road in New Milton, Hampshire, is transformed into a twinkling winter wonderland each Christmas The eye-popping display of thousands of dazzling fairy lights along the street attracts thousands of visitors   Some neighbours […]

A Massachusetts man avoided jail time in a sham marriage scheme. (Wyoming Department of Health) A Massachusetts man who admitted to entering six sham marriages as part of an immigration scheme was spared a prison sentence this week, authorities said. Peter Hicks, 58, was sentenced to two years probation after asking a U.S. District Court judge not to sentence him to […]

Mortified mother, 46, sends her five-year-old son to his school nativity with a £16.00 ‘shepherd’ costume from Amazon – only to discover it came with a blow-up SEX DOLL sheep Helen Cox bought her son Alfie the £16.99 fancy dress costume on Amazon Five-year-old from Alloa was delighted when it came with a blow up sheep But she blew it […]

Four teenage yobs, all 18, – including a CRIMINOLOGY student – are unmasked as vandals behind £1,000 drunken 5am wrecking spree at WWI remembrance garden Teenage thugs named as people responsible for damaging to war memorial   Shocking incident took place on September 1 in Rochdale, Greater Manchester  Lewis Hall, Lewis Hart, Jordan Taylor & Elliott McBurnie confessed in court  Four […]