BREAKING NEWS Multiple schools on lockdown as armed police rush to ‘major incident’ in South Wales following reports of ‘serious assault’ Multiple schools are on lockdown after armed police rushed to reports of a ‘serious assault’ in South Wales. Several schools were placed into lockdown on Tuesday morning as officers responded to a ‘major incident’ which saw the ‘serious assault’ […]

Five members of the same family have been found dead following an apparent murder-suicide, police have said. Police were called to an address in Vancouver, Washington, on Saturday afternoon following a tip-off from a caller in Seattle who said one of the family members had texted them saying they had “harmed others”. When deputies arrived they were unable to contact […]

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Moment man drags a swan through a park by its NECK ‘while under the influence’ before he’s confronted by passersby in ‘sickening’ attack Gwent Police have launched an appeal to identify the man in Sunday’s attack Did you witness the swan attack? Email [email protected]  A man was caught on camera dragging a swan by its neck through a park in Wales before […]

Arsonist, 39, who poured two jerry cans of petrol onto quilt propped against a backdoor as two women and four children slept inside is jailed Andrew Potter targeted the home in Latchford, Cheshire, after an argument He was jailed for eight years at Cheshire Crown Court after guilty plea  An arsonist who tried to set a house on fire as […]

A former key ally of Russia's grudge-holding president Vladimir Putin has told how the 71-year-old hasn't spoken to him since he rejected a job offer 15 years ago. Sergey Yastrzhembsky was the spokesman for both Boris Yeltsin and later Putin, and was later the head of Vlad's Information Police Department at the Kremlin. He went on to become the presidential […]

Cases of pneumonia among children are on the rise in a number of European countries. As China is battling a concerning spike in infections, both the Netherlands and Denmark reported an uptick in the cases recorded. In the Netherlands, the number of youngsters aged between five and 14 diagnosed with pneumonia has risen to 130 every 100,000 children in the […]

REVEALED: Omid Scobie’s UK agent ‘DID send draft manuscript naming two ‘royal racists’ to be translated into Dutch’, exposing under-fire author’s weasel words that he had ‘never submitted a book that had those names in it’ – as Palace mulls legal action Omid Scobie’s UK agent did send a draft manuscript of Endgame naming the two ‘royal racists’ to be […]

Rishi Sunak refuses to rule out Nigel Farage returning to the Conservative Party as a member Reform UK honorary president joked that he would lead the Tories in the future Rishi Sunak has declined to rule out Nigel Farage rejoining the Conservative Party as a member, describing the party as a ‘broad church’. Mr Farage left the Tories in 1992 […]