Terrified locals have spilled all about life on one of Liverpool’s most dangerous estates, where ‘wannabe gangsters’ think they’re the Kray twins, dogs are shot and firefighters are attacked by vicious thugs. Residents say living on Primrose Court in Huyton, Liverpool, is ‘horrendous’ after the area – once full of nice well-kept family homes – … Read more
That’s low! Men with deep voices are more likely to cheat on their partners due to higher levels of testosterone, study claims Student volunteers recorded certain words and completed a personality study Researchers found a link between a deep voice and a higher chance of cheating This is due in part to higher levels of … Read more
A furious blame game is under way today after 16,000 coronavirus cases were missed due to a computer glitch – meaning thousands more potentially infected contacts were not traced. The extraordinary meltdown is believed to have been caused by an Excel spreadsheet containing lab results reaching its maxium size, and failing to update. Some 15,841 … Read more
Priti Patel‘s allies have laid a flurry of embarrassing leaks disclosing brainstorming on asylum policy firmly at the door of the Foreign Office. The past week has seen several reports emerge describing extraordinary measures being mooted by the Home Office to get to grips with migration. One claimed that Ms Patel had instructed her department … Read more
Friends of Priti Patel reacted with fury today over leaks that suggested she was behind a range of madcap ideas including processing asylum seekers thousands of miles from Britain. Reports have suggested the Home Secretary was looking at ‘offshoring’ refugees arriving in Britain in places including Ascension island and St Helena in the south Atlantic, … Read more
Boris Johnson’s allies were accused of excusing ‘incompetence’ today after ‘gotcha’ were blamed for his bungle over coronavirus lockdown policies. The PM faced a welter of ridicule after embarrassingly getting muddled yesterday about the draconian rules imposed on households mixing in the North East. The blunder elicited a rare apology from Mr Johnson, who admitted … Read more
Boris Johnson gathered Cabinet for crisis talks today as allies blamed ‘gotcha’ questions for the PM bungling his own coronavirus lockdown policies. The PM is meeting his senior ministers as he struggles to get back on the front foot after embarrassingly getting muddled about the draconian rules imposed on households mixing in the North East. … Read more
Pubs, bars and restaurants were to blame for fewer than three per cent of all Covid-19 infections in the week when the curfew was announced, official statistics have revealed. The nation’s struggling hospitality sector recorded just 22 outbreaks of respiratory infections – including Covid-19. This is a drop of 12 from the total identified from … Read more
A rapist who tried to blame an imaginary identical twin for the attack has been jailed for 22 years. Khaled Argoub, 21, followed a woman off a tube and dragged her into a dark park where he choked her until she blacked out and sexually assaulted her. He was sentenced at Kingston Crown Court on … Read more
Angela Rayner last night accused Boris Johnson of ‘abandoning’ care homes to their fate as she blamed his ‘failure and incompetence’ for the thousands who had died. In a stinging attack on the PM, Labour’s deputy leader – who was a care worker herself before she entered politics – lambasted him for reneging on his … Read more