Category: News

A community worker says she found a woman “starving to death” on a road where the average house price sits around £1 million. Teresa Farrell described her shock at arriving at a bungalow on an apparently well-heeled Solihull road. Teresa, who runs the Lily’s Tea Parlour project, recently told BirminghamLive: “Me and one of my […]

A “furious” mum has slammed Asda after claiming their café served her daughter chips that smelled and tasted of “rotting horse manure”. The Essex mum, who wanted to remain anonymous, was served the horrific meal at an Asda Café in Clacton-on-Sea when she went there with her daughter, known as ‘P’. When ‘P’ went to […]

A fast food lover was fined £50 for parking at his local McDonald’s too long as he tucked into a meal. The unnamed man enjoyed an extended stay of two hours at the branch in Coalville, Leicestershire, which saw him order extra drinks. However he was then slapped with a bill for breaching parking restrictions, […]

Human-caused climate change made the UK’s recent record-breaking heatwave at least 10 times more likely, scientists are reported to have said. Researchers were alarmed to find that temperatures during the heatwave – when the mercury rose beyond 40C in some parts of the UK – outpaced those predicted by most climate models. A temperature of […]

A massive fire has torn through a residential street in Reading, destroying several houses. People living on Red Cottage Drive in Calcot were evacuated shortly after the fire broke out and the alarm was raised during the early hours of Friday morning. Thames Valley Police said a number of residential properties have been destroyed by […]

Heart defects that kill young people in the prime of their lives could soon be cured with a simple injection. Pioneering scientists at Oxford University and Harvard University in the US will trial the first proven cure for genetic heart muscle diseases by rewriting a letter of patients’ DNA. Such devastating undiagnosed conditions have seen […]

A ‘controlling’ man has been found guilty of brutally murdering his wife by battering her with a hammer and strangling her. Mark Barrott, 55, was found guilty of murdering Eileen at the family home in Whinmoor, Leeds, where her lifeless body was found by her adult son laying face down in the living room. The […]