‘The rockstar life was just a facade. He was one of us’: Irish fans lining the streets to say farewell to Shane MacGowan share their stories of the ‘God-fearing’ man who drank down the pub with everyone else  Shane MacGowan is being laid to rest in Tipperary after a procession in Dublin Fans of The Pogues star Shane MacGowan have […]

‘This is beneath us’: Tory MPs row after party’s official X account tweets pic of BBC presenter giving viewers the middle finger to accuse Labour of having no plan to tackle illegal migration Tory MPs opened a new battle in their civil war over immigration last night with a row over an x-rated social media advert featuring a BBC presenter […]

By Sherryn Groch Brett Sutton was Victoria’s chief health officer during the COVID-19 pandemic.Credit: Simon Schluter Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Brett Sutton was sitting on top of a pyramid gazing at the stars and listening to the calls of spider monkeys when he realised he’d been left […]

100ft-high tickling stick compared to a giant loo brush and a kebab rotisserie will tower over Liverpool city centre as part of plans for museum dedicated to the late comedian Sir Ken Dodd A giant tickling stick up to 100ft high is set to tower over Liverpool city centre as part of a new museum dedicated to the late Sir […]

The perfect Christmas present for Buffy the Vampire Slayer! Victorian kit containing Bible, pistol, stake and bottle of holy water designed to see off deadly bloodsuckers is set to fetch £4,000 at auction Here’s a potential Christmas present you could really get your teeth into. A Victorian ‘vampire slaying kit’ containing a wooden stake and Holy Water hidden inside a […]

BREAKING NEWS ITV ‘did NOT cover-up evidence of Phillip Schofield’s affair with This Morning runner before star quit’, external review finds ITV made ‘considerable efforts’ to find out the truth about an alleged relationship between Phillip Schofield and a runner on This Morning in 2019 but was ‘unable to uncover the relevant evidence’ until Schofield’s admission in late May 2023, […]

Harvard-educated lawyer faces jail after fleecing businesswoman out of £2m and blowing fortune in casinos after convincing her to invest in £12.6m Mayfair home she had never seen A Harvard-educated lawyer who fleeced a wealthy businesswoman out of £2m and blew a fortune in top casinos is facing jail. Tim Damiani, 70, persuaded Aysun Kibar to invest £1.5m in a […]

Hackers working for Russia’s security agency FSB ‘compromised private conversations of high profile politicians and civil servants’ in ‘sustained attempt’ to ‘meddle in British politics’ Private conversations of high-profile politicians and civil servants have been compromised by Russia’s principal security service during ‘sustained’ attempts to interfere in UK politics, a Foreign Office minister has said. Leo Docherty said a cyber […]

Second Ukrainian ‘traitor’ is assassinated as car bomb kills pro-Putin politician a day after another was shot in the head near Moscow Oleg Popov and Ilya Kyva, declared traitors, were both found dead Wednesday A pro-Kremlin politician branded a war criminal by Ukraine has been killed in a car bombing in occupied Luhansk, the second killing of its kind this […]

Fresh row at school beset by angry protests as pupils who use the toilet during lessons are ordered to tell teachers WHY they need to go Camborne Science and International Academy in Cornwall angers parents  School says new rule ‘offers support in developing good habits for life’ One parent claimed the school ‘had gone too far’   A fresh row has broken […]