Builders’ merchant Travis Perkins reveals it axed 400 jobs and shut 19 branches last year in bid to slash £25m costs due to slowdown in construction sector Travis Perkins has announced it axed 400 jobs and 19 branches last year  The firm, which also owns Toolstation, was forced to slash costs by 25m  Builders’ merchant Travis Perkins has revealed it […]

AFTER 54 days on the run police have located Mark Gordon and his partner Constance Marten. However, the couple's one-month-old baby is still missing as police desperately search the area where they were found. Who is Mark Gordon? Mark Gordon is the partner of Constance Marten and the father to her child. The couple are reported to have met in […]

A MAN died after choking to on his roast dinner, an inquest has heard. Grenville Bosworth, 79, died while eating lunch with his wife and sister-in-law in a cafe near his home in Leicestershire on February 19. The pensioner, who had Parkinson's Disease, was attended by emergency services, with paramedics delivering CPR for 30 minutes before pronouncing him dead. His […]

RESIDENTS are devastated after their once-thriving shopping centre became a "ghost town" covered with litter and broken paving. The Carlton Square shopping centre in Gedling, Nottinghamshire was "once amazing", but locals say it has since gone rapidly downhill. Litter and pigeon waste is strewn all over the shopping centre, and the paving is so cracked that one resident needed a […]

RICHARD KAY: Why I fear it was unwise for King Charles to let himself be caught up in Brexit politics To some it looked suspiciously like a crude piece of news management of the kind we once associated with Tony Blair’s New Labour. As Unionists and Tory MPs railed about being kept in the dark over Rishi Sunak’s new Brexit […]

Moment ‘humiliated’ Ryanair passenger who is paralysed from the waist down is forced to drag himself up stairs on coach home after his flight was diverted Spencer Watts, 27, was flying back from Lanzarote when his flight was diverted  Distressing footage shows him being forced to climb up the stairs of a coach This is the shocking moment a ‘humiliated’ […]

‘She was as firm as she was fair’: Rishi Sunak pays tribute to Betty Boothroyd after first ever female Commons Speaker died aged 93 following political career lasting half a century Rishi Sunak has paid tribute to Betty Boothroyd after she died aged 93   Baroness Boothroyd served as Commons Speaker between 1992 and 2000  The trailblazer, a former professional dancer, […]

Vernon Kay breaks down in tears while talking about joining BBC Radio 2 – as Ken Bruce hosts his last ever Monday show after revealing bosses forced him out a month early Vernon Kay to take over veteran DJ Ken Bruce’s mid-morning weekday show  Comes amid backlash by loyal Ken Bruce listeners who blasted BBC for decision   Vernon Kay broke […]

Key points Scores of Israeli settlers went on a violent rampage in the northern West Bank late Sunday. Palestinian medics said one man was killed and four others were badly wounded in the worst outburst of settler violence in decades. The rampage follows talks between Israel and Palestinian Authority hosted by neighbour Jordan. It was a rare high-level meeting between […]