Paddy Doherty’s family react angrily as BMW driver avoids jail for killing Big Fat Gypsy Wedding star’s nephew in crash while he raced horse and cart Michael ‘Mikey’ Connors, 30, was catapulted into the air when BMW struck cart  He came crashing down on tarmac and died at scene from severe head injuries  Billy Budd, 31, tried to flee but […]

The CEO of Cathay Pacific Airways, one of Hong Kong’s most prominent companies, resigned Friday following pressure by Beijing on the carrier over participation by some of its employees in anti-government protests. Interested in China? Rupert Hogg became the highest-profile corporate casualty of official Chinese pressure on foreign and Hong Kong companies to support the ruling Communist Party’s position against […]

Ed Smart, the father of kidnapping survivor and activist Elizabeth Smart, reportedly came out as gay and announced he is divorcing his wife, Lois, in a since-deleted letter shared to Facebook. In the Facebook post, which was first reported by Salt Lake City newspaper The Deseret News, Ed, 64, reportedly said that sharing the news was “one of the hardest letters […]

Sofa so good: Four teenage cyclists wobble along a road carrying a COUCH on their heads and shoulders Four 16-year-olds were carrying a sofa on their shoulders in Scunthorpe They took the sofa, which was on the side of the road, for their ‘shed hangout’  Levi Moore, 24, filmed the boys as they cycled along a Lincolnshire road A group […]

The UK’s last remaining strict leather and rubber fetish gay club has been saved after a London council blocked plans to redevelop the East End site into a 12-storey residential tower. Tower Hamlets ruled against the proposed 46-flat development on Mile End Road because it would “harm the long-term provision of a nightclub that serves the LGBT+ community”. Cllr Rachel […]

It’s a Tory-Labour alliance! Remainers Ken Clarke and Harriet Harman ARE willing to lead a rebel government to block Brexit if MPs manage to overthrow Boris Johnson but refuse to put Jeremy Corybn in No 10 They were suggested as a more palatable alternative to Corbyn by Jo Swinson Lib Dem leader said they were ready to ‘put public duty […]

ANGELA Merkel is set to reject Boris Johnson’s bid to renegotiate the Brexit deal when the pair meet in France next weekend, leaked documents show. The German Chancellor will “stick to the line” that the backstop and Withdrawal Agreement can’t be changed according to a Finance Ministry paper. The dossier says her government now considers No Deal to be a […]

Scientists have discovered a new pain organ in the skin. The cells form a network that senses painful stimuli such as pricks and impact. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden say the organ is sensitive to hazardous environmental irritation. It is made up of glia cells with multiple long protrusions, which collectively make up a mesh-like organ within the skin. […]

Country music fans have been the target of two horrific mass shootings in recent years. Interested in Gun Control? The first, in 2017, left 58 people dead at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas. A year later, 12 people were killed in Thousand Oaks, California, at the Borderline Bar & Grill country music venue. Country music stars began […]

Bulgarian pickpockets, 23 and 48, are jailed after being caught on camera targeting shoppers and using T-shirts to hide their thieving Sofiya Ivanova, 23, and Totka Dimitrova, 48, targeted four people in ten minutes They hid their hands under t-shirts and bags but were spotted by police British Transport Police plain-clothes officers followed them in Covent Garden They were handed 18-week […]