Category: News

A family on the school run have been caught up in what appears to be a terrifying road rage attack as a man brandishing a machete attacked their car. Stunned fellow parents and the school dialled 999 as the man was seen smashing his weapon against the windscreen and onto the car bonnet as a […]

A woman killed at a Travelodge hotel was a receptionist who was working an overnight shift alone, a witness has claimed. One of her colleagues called 999 for help and desperately tried to stop the bleeding as he pressed some material onto her stomach, hotel guest Paul Ford said. The woman, who was in her […]

This is the heartbreaking moment a 14-year-old boy sang through a hospice window to his terminally-ill mother days before she died. Jane Devine was diagnosed with breast cancer in July 2019 and her son Billy was captured in a heartbreaking video singing to her for the last time. Billy, along with his friend Ellie Marie […]

Britain is set for a weekend washout as forecasters predict at least five days of heavy rain – triggering fears of flooding – amid a severe cold weather alert. Torrential downpours will sweep in from the west on Thursday and move eastwards before stalling over Scotland and eastern England, the Met Office said. That barrage […]

A child orphaned after her mum died was on the brink of being deported out of the UK due to a council blunder, it’s been revealed. The 11-year-old was born in the UK, but because she had no family here when her mum died social workers in Birmingham considered deporting her to the country where […]

A mum took her own life after her boyfriend dumped her at a children’s birthday party, a coroner heard. Katrina Fuller scribbled the word “Sorry” on the wall before her body was discovered by her son, who immediately FaceTimed his girlfriend for help. An inquest heard that during a friend’s daughter’s birthday party, there was […]

A student who thought she broke her leg in a rugby accident had to have a shock amputation less than two weeks later. Gracie Matthews, who lives in Salford, was rushed to hospital after suffering an injury in her hometown near Milton Keynes in 2016. The 28-year-old was left in agony after dislocating her knee […]