A PREGNANT mum has denied murdering her two young daughters within three weeks of each other. Louise Porton, 23, is accused of killing three-year-old Lexi Draper and 16-month-old Scarlett Vaughan last year. Porton, who is expected to give birth later this year, will now stand trial on June 24 after pleading not guilty to two charges of murder. Birmingham Crown […]

THE Connecticut high school hockey player who died earlier this week in a tragic accident has now been identified. Teddy Balkind, a tenth grader at St Luke’s School in New Canaan, died after his neck was slit open by a skate while he was on the ice. During a game Thursday night, Balkind fell on the ice and while he […]

A FURIOUS mum of two claims she has been “threatened with legal action” by killjoy housing chiefs – for building a kids' woodland den.  Jazmin Saunders, 23, was horrified when residents at a housing estate in Crowborough, East Sussex, received a letter threatening to prosecute them for building a den in the woodland behind the properties. Her daughter Elsie had […]

London: The ease with which Russian billionaires can stash billions of dollars in property and other assets in London is taking the bite out of the UK’s tough talk on sanctions against Russia for any incursions into Ukraine. Reports this week that a key piece of legislation designed to fight money-laundering and dirty money inflows into the UK from Russia […]

AN eight-year-old boy leapt to his death from a ninth floor flat after suffering years of beatings and abuse from his parents, it has been reported. The youngster took his own life after his family returned to their flat and his  parents started yelling at their son for damaging his clothes. Zhanna, a woman living downstairs, told local media: “The […]

A MUM who documented her devastating cancer battle in a harrowing photo diary has been told she has beaten the disease. Company director Ruth Naylor, 32, was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma last August and doctors were unsure if she would survive. But Ruth vowed “dying is not an option” and documented her gruelling treatment online. And last night she revealed […]

A TAKEAWAY customer was disgusted after finding an entire CHICKEN HEAD in her box of KFC hot wings. A shocking photo showed the head – complete with eyes and a beak – encrusted in crunchy batter straight out of the frier. After ordering from KFC Feltham in Twickenham, a woman named Gabrielle left it a two-star JustEat review. It read: […]

Knifeman who caused Manchester city centre terror as he stabbed five homeless men in 10-minute knifing spree is jailed for 18 years Kieran McLoughlin, 32, slashed four men in the face, and another in the back Attacks were in full view of busy Metrolink stop during spree across Piccadilly Gardens and Market Street in 2020 He was Tasered by police […]

“It’s game on.” That’s the message from National leader Christopher Luxon in his speech to MPs at the party’s caucus retreat in Queenstown. Luxon will hope to use the weekend to reset the mood of the caucus after years of factional infighting. The retreat will focus on topics Luxon thinks will be important in the new year: The economy, Covid-19, […]