Halloween looks frightful! Britain set for washout half term WEEK as remnants of Hurricane Epsilon bring more than a MONTHS’ worth of rain in 36 hours on Thursday and Friday and downpours on the weekend Met Office predicts 5.2inches of rain will fall in Wales on Thursday and Friday – more than monthly UK average … Read more
The average price of a detached house has increased by more than £24,000 since the start of lockdown, analysis has found. Research found this ‘mini-boom’ in the housing market has likely been driven by a surge in demand for spacious properties in the wake of the coronavirus lockdown, which saw Britons spend much more time indoors. … Read more
Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson says he could support city being placed into a new Tier FOUR ‘if necessary’ to brings down coronavirus cases faster He said he is not opposed to the introduction of ‘tougher measures if necessary’ Mr Anderson lost his own brother Bill, 61, to Covid less than a fortnight ago Downing Street … Read more
Moment four men stop traffic as they brawl in the middle of the road in one of London’s busiest shopping districts Four men had a violent bust-up in the middle of the road on Monday Footage of the incident shows two men knocked to the floor with a single punch The man who filmed the … Read more
Emmanuel Macron has found himself demonised at protests throughout the Islamic world as anger grows at his defence of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Bangladesh on Tuesday, branding him a ‘Satan-worshipper’ and burning him in effigy following smaller marches in Pakistan, Iraq, Turkey and Gaza … Read more
Cambridge students are calling for a ‘transphobic’ Labour politician to be suspended from his job as a porter at Clare College after he resigned from the council in protest over a motion in support of transgender rights. Kevin Price, who represented King’s Hedges for more than 10 years, refused to support the Lib Dem motion … Read more
‘Very niiice!’: Kazakhstan adopts Borat’s catchphrase for tourism campaign Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat hails from the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan After the release of his first film in 2006, Kazakh officials were outraged at his depiction of the country as sexist, homophobic and anti-Semitic They are now using his catchphrase ‘very nice’ in a … Read more
Hooded thieves steal three pedigree bulldog puppies worth £5,000 each and blind owners with ‘ammonia’ spray in terrifying home raid Sally Knight-Buxton from Basildon says incident left her three children petrified Thieves burst in on Friday and sprayed the 34-year-old with a noxious substance They threw her 62-year-old mother to the floor and made off … Read more
Hurricane Zeta, the 27th named storm in a very busy Atlantic season, made landfall on the Caribbean coast of the eastern Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico late on Monday while lashing the resorts around Tulum with rain and wind. The US National Hurricane Centre said Zeta came ashore just north of Tulum with maximum sustained winds … Read more
Council HR consultant Lyndsey Rolt, 60, admitted assault by beating, but was given an absolute discharge my magistrates The estranged wife of a deputy headmaster dug her nails into him during a doorstep confrontation after discovering him living with his new lover. Council HR consultant Lydnsey Rolt, 60, had been hoping to reconcile with 42-year-old … Read more