Timely updates and trending stories from across the UK.
Timely updates and trending stories from across the UK.
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We're used to seeing some pretty incredible sights on talent shows, but the latest episode of Britain's Got Talent really took the cake! Instead of a singer, or yet another boy band, we had an eerie magic show performed by an enigmatic masked magician (who looked a little bit like…
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A 23-year-old paramedic has suffered a stroke after a "neck crack" went wrong. She is now sharing her one-in-a-million story to raise awareness of strokes in young people. The incident happened on March 4 when Natalie Kunicki, an employee of the London Ambulance Service (LAS), was enjoying an evening in…
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A group of anti-paedophile protesters are picketing a nude swimming event, organised by British Naturism, open to adults and children of all ages. Campaigners gathered outside Waterworld in Festival Park, Stoke-on-Trent, arguing that the event should be for over 18s only, and that participants should be required to submit to…
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An autistic five-year-old boy was "forced out" of a cinema after being confronted by a "heartless" audience member. Vicky Page took her son Noah, and his two siblings aged nine and ten, to the Royal Cinema in Faversham, Kent to watch the new Dumbo film last Saturday. However, the trip…
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An accountant who was allegedly bullied at work stole £170,000 ($222,000) from his bosses and spent it all in one weekend on cocaine and prostitutes. Accounts worker Darren Carvill was jailed for two-and-a-half years this week, confessing to 18 fraud charges. He reportedly almost bankrupt car servicing chain Mr Clutch,…
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In Pinxton, Derbyshire, UK, 29-year-old Ashley Wood went joyriding on his motorbike, speeding recklessly down the pavement and kicking the side mirrors off parked cars. However, the vandal's crime spree was abruptly cut off when the driver of an orange Fiat Punto violently rammed him into a parked van. The…
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Actress and model Pamela Anderson has called the United Kingdom 'America's b*tch', in a series of tweets, after the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in London yesterday. The former Baywatch star has often publically supported his whistleblowing. Taking to Twitter in the aftermath of Assange's arrest at the Ecuadorian…
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A woman who hails from Edinburgh in Scotland has launched a cleaning service with a difference, where staff perform their duties in various states of undress. Victoria Murphy was inspired to launch her initiative after hearing about another, similar business in the states. She quit her job as a beautician…
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A mother who hails from Greater Manchester has opened up about how she gave birth to a baby who now sports a full head of hair. Natalie Whittaker, who hails from Droyslden, experienced constant heartburn while pregnant with her baby girl Dolly Babs Taylor. The signs that she was going…
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Hay fever sufferers, this is a red alert! I repeat: hay fever sufferers, this is a red alert! We're sorry to inform you that there is a reason behind those runny noses, giant sneezes and itchy eyes you've been getting over the past few days, and it's not a good…
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19-year-old Shana Grice from Brighton, England, reported her ex-boyfriend Michael Lane to the Sussex Police five times within a six month period in 2016. The officers responded by fining her £90 ($117.82), for "wasting police time." That same year, Lane killed Grice by slitting her throat in her bedroom and…
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A leading British supermarket has been forced to apologise after suffering backlash over their Easter chocolate ducklings, with some customers branding them 'racist'. Waitrose, a supermarket chain with around 350 locations in the United Kingdom, recently released a set of chocolate ducklings in anticipation of Easter, selling for around £8,…
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A domestic abuser who made chilling threats to murder the mother of her child was allegedly allowed into a women's refuge shelter after beginning to identify as female. While living as a man, Melissa Addis (formerly Mark Addis) spent six months on remand in a male prison in 2014 after…
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We all know about the dangers of drinking and driving and texting and driving, but what about the dangers of vaping and driving? Many people vape because they believe it's less harmful than smoking cigarettes, which is debatable. Yet vaping could pose a bigger threat behind the wheel, because the…
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A paramedic had an abusive note left on his ambulance windscreen by a resident who couldn't get into their home as he fought to save a young girl's life. North East Ambulance Service worker Chris James Nixon was lambasted by the disgruntled neighbour for his "appalling" behaviour as he attended a…
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A woman has spoken out about how she lost her forehead and two teeth in a car crash after resting her feet on the dashboard of her boyfriend's car. Grainne Kealy's knees were sent flying into her face when the airbags inflated at 200 MPH, when the jeep she was…
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A woman from West London is to be jailed for a decade for falsely accusing over a dozen men of sexually assaulting her. 27-year-old Jemma Beale, who hails from Bedfont, was handed a lengthy prison sentence for perverting the course of justice and perjuring innocent men in 2017, one of…
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A hairdresser from London has been giving free haircuts to homeless people living rough. Joshua Coombes goes out into the streets of Britain's capital, cutting hair and trimming beards to give them amazing transformations. But 31-year-old Joshua Coombes doesn't just cut hair, he also talks to the people he helps,…
