A 23-year-old Hamilton man has been charged with stunt driving. Police say officers tried to stop a white Ford F-150 around 10 p.m. Wednesday night on Upper Wentworth Street near Stonechurch Road but the pickup truck sped off. Police say the vehicle reached a speed of 126 km/h before officers were able to safely stop it. The posted speed limit […]

Thomas Lee Williams was apprehended a short time later and is back in jail. Thomas Lee Williams didn’t make it very long on the outside, police say. The 36-year-old man had just served time at the Hempfield state prison near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for a drug conviction when he earned his release. It did not last very long, TriLive.com reported. Police […]

When London was all fields: Fascinating 1830 map shows how vast swathes of the capital were virtually empty just as the Industrial Revolution began to change everything The detailed map in London in 1830 was produced by celebrated cartographers the Greenwood brothers What are now built up areas on South Bank and south west London are shown as sparsely populated […]

A Nordic blast will sweep in from Scandinavia after the "danger-to-life" vortex batters northern parts of Britain tomorrow. Temperatures will then plummet towards freezing point as the cold air flow moves in from the chilly north east. Forecasts show that still conditions and light winds will lead to icy frosts developing over the weekend — especially in the midlands, south […]

Sheikha Latifa, 33, the daughter of the Emirate’s billionaire ruler, attempted to flee her “gilded prison” with the help of a former French spy in March. She made allegations of abuse against her father Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum in a video which has been widely shared in the UAE. But Latifa was snatched from a yacht by commandos 40 […]

Killer, 50, who brutally beat girlfriend to death then told police her horrific injuries were really ‘carpet burns’ from sex is jailed for life for murder Simon Winstone, 50, killed girlfriend Michelle Denise Rosser, 38, in May last year  Neighbours heard Winstone shouting ‘she’s gone, she’s gone’ in the early hours   But he denied murder and blamed the injuries on […]

Thomas Haynes, assistant editor of student newspaper The Tab, wrote an article urging straight people to stop singing the song. He has insisted party-goers should be barred from belting out the line “you cheap lousy faggot” from The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl’s 1988 hit. Thomas, who was educated at London Kings College, has even called on YouTube to remove the […]

Five Calgary teens designed and presented a workshop to prevent radicalization at Vivo Centre for Healthier Generations on Wednesday evening. The 16- to 19-year-old volunteers were recruited through community organizations and schools to comprise the ReDirect Youth Innovation Group — an education program by Calgary police and neighbourhoods whose aim is to see youth coming up with solutions to ward off division in the […]

Affray in a manger! Fury as traditional Nativity display is banned by ‘Grinch-like’ shopping centre bosses over fears it would upset non-Christian visitors The Thistles shopping centre in Stirling has banned a nativity scene this year Church leaders in the medieval city are outraged by the centre’s decision  Management have been promoting a Christmas market inside the shopping mall The […]

‘Evicted’ couple are crowdfunding for a home for Christmas after being forced to live in a tent in friend’s back garden for SIX months Rachel Melbourne and Lee Grantham had lived in their Hull property since 2014  Couple said they were kicked out of home in June 12, with belongings still since  Six months on, the couple are still living […]