Seven women have come forward as part of an investigation into the DJ Former Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood is facing multiple allegations of sexual misconduct by a number of women. The DJ is accused of abusing his position in the music industry to exploit women and is accused of predatory and unwanted sexual behaviour […]

4 years ago

Campaign groups argued the plans to use ‘turnaround tactics’ on migrant boats went against human rights laws The government has dropped its plans to turn back migrant boats attempting to cross the Channel from Calais, just a week before they were set to be challenged in court. The policy would have meant that Border Force […]

4 years ago

YouTuber Trevor Jacob demonstrated a ‘lack of care, judgement, and responsibility’ A YouTuber who filmed himself in a plane crash has had his pilot’s license revoked after it was found that he carried out the crash deliberately for the sake of a video. On November 24 last year, Trevor Jacob was flying over California’s Los […]

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Four people were found dead at a terraced house on Monday morning One of the four people who were found stabbed to death at their family home in London has been named as Dolet Hill, a former NHS worker who had just recovered from cancer surgery. Hill, 63, was a former housekeeper at Guy’s Hospital, […]

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Parliament is set to pass an order extending licensing hours over the Jubilee weekend Pubs across England and Wales will be allowed to stay open until 1am over the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee weekend. From Thursday June 2 to Saturday June 4, venues across England and Wales will be allowed to continue serving customers for an […]

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The pair were experimenting with fractal wood burning A couple have been killed after attempting a dangerous TikTok art technique. Wisconsin couple Tanya Rodriguez, 44, and James Carolfi, 52, were killed whilst attempting a method known as fractal wood burning. This involves using electricity to burn a pattern into chemical-soaked wood. But the pair were […]

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The line featured in the original 2002 Spider-Man film ITV edited out a line that some have labelled homophobic from it’s recent broadcast of the first Spider-Man film. The 2002 film, which sees Tobey Maguire star for the first time as the superhero, was aired on ITV2 on Sunday night. In one scene, Peter Parker […]

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‘If anyone thinks this is an acceptable manner of driving, let this be your warning’ Sheffield police have released footage of a motorist who drove too close to a group of cyclists, resulting in him getting five points on his license and a £417 fine. In the video captured by a cyclist’s helmet camera, a […]

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The former president explained how he would deal with the Russian invasion of Ukraine Donald Trump has claimed he would be able to stop Putin using the word ‘nuclear’ if he were still president of the US. The former president was speaking to long-time pal Piers Morgan in a wide-ranging interview for Morgan’s new TalkTV […]

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Her life spanned almost the entirety of the 20th century Kane Tanaka, the woman credited as being the world’s oldest person, has died at the age of 119. According to Japan’s public broadcaster NHK, Tanaka passed away in hospital in Fukuoka, western Japan, last week. She was confirmed as the oldest living person in the […]

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Bear with, bear with, bear with Miranda Hart has denied rumours that her popular sitcom is set to return to our screens, after reports had suggested she had finished writing a fourth series. The show followed Hart as a fictionalised version of herself, running a joke shop with her best friend Stevie (Sarah Hadland) and […]

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Activists have been forming human barricade at the bridge entrances Traffic on four of London’s busiest bridges has been brought to a standstill because of Extinction Rebellion protestors. Activists from the group have lined the roads outside Blackfriars, Westminster, Waterloo and Lambeth bridges ahead of the Friday afternoon rush hour. In a tweet, the group […]

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Le Pen voiced her support for the plans, but admitted there are ‘more efficient methods’ Far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has voiced her support for Boris Johnson’s plans to fly unwanted asylum seekers in the UK to Rwanda. The nationalist candidate welcomed the plans, telling the BFM news channel that they “could work.” […]

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‘Aches and pains. But no tumour!’ First Dates barman Merlin Griffiths has had his tumour removed in surgery, thanking the NHS for “literally saving” his life. Last year, the Channel 4 star revealed that he had been diagnosed with bowel cancer, and he has been keeping his followers updated on his progress. On Thursday, the […]

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No arrests have yet been made by police Police have said that a person was shot outside DaBaby’s homes. with the rapper apparently involved in the incident. The shooting took place on a football field outside his Troutman property on Wednesday, April 13. Sources told TMZ that DaBaby – real name Jonathan Lyndale Kirk – confronted […]

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He was confronted with his own party’s words about Rwanda A Tory MP was left embarrassed after a car crash interview on Friday morning about the plans to fly unwanted asylum seekers in the UK to Rwanda. Tom Pursglove was appearing on Sky News to discuss the Rwanda asylum flights, when he said that “appalling […]

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Musk denies having had a secret relationship with Delevingne in 2016 Elon Musk has responded to claims that he had a threesome with Cara Delevingne and Amber Heard. The Tesla founder has denied the allegations which were made in the defamation case between Heard and her ex, Johnny Depp. Court documents suggest that Musk may […]

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He holds the record for the highest number of matches and wins as England captain Joe Root has stepped down from his position as captain of the England men’s test cricket. His resignation comes off the back of a 1-0 test series defeat to the West Indies, and a humiliating Ashes tour defeat over the […]

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He became concerned when he noticed a ‘weird scent’ in the car A Tesla driver was left fearing for his safety when his car’s main features and dashboard froze, leaving him stuck at 83mph on a freeway. Javier Rodriguez from Irvine, California, said that he was on the 10 freeway on Thursday (April 7) when […]

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More ‘no men allowed’ club nights are scheduled to take place across the country A nightclub in Manchester will be hosting a ‘no men allowed’ club night as part of a nationwide tour. Lick Events will be taking over the Ritz nightclub on May 7 for its women-only night. The company say that their nights […]

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‘This shot is a farewell, a send-off on our own terms’ The creators of Ice Age have brought an end to one of the cinema’s great storylines – with Scrat finally having his acorn and eating it. If you’ve seen any of the Ice Age films, then you’ll know exactly the saga we’re talking about. […]

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Nasa hopes to perform the first official launch in 2025 Nasa is testing a launch system that will allow payloads to be catapulted into space to improve space accessibility. The US space agency has partnered up with California-based startup SpinLaunch to develop a ‘Suborbital Accelerator Launch System’ which will “eliminate the cost, time, and complexity” […]

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He has promised to ‘unlock’ Twitter’s ‘extraordinary potential’ Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for $41.39bn, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission published Thursday. The billionaire has offered $54.20 a share, which is a 38 percent premium of the company’s closing stock on April 1, the last trading day before his 9 […]

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It’s thought that 10 times the normal amount of washups are occurring Dozens of weedy seadragons have been washing up on Australian beaches after weeks of record rainfall in the country. Images of the creatures washed up on shores across New South Wales have been shared on social media by beachcomber Betty Ratcliffe. She told […]

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The Moskva is the flagship of the Russian navy The Russian warship that attacked the iconic Snake Island defenders has had to be evacuated after it was badly damaged in an explosion. According to a Ukrainian official, the Moskva was hit by a cruise missile attack. All 500 of the ship’s crew were saved according […]

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Johnny Depp is suing Amber Heard for defamation over an op-ed she wrote in 2018 A court in the US has heard that Johnny Depp called Amber Heard a “c**t” and spoke about her “rotting corpse” in a text to a friend. The message was read out to the court in Virginia as part of […]

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He holds the record for most appearances at the World Cup for Colombia Former Colombian captain Freddy Rincon has died in a car crash. The 55-year-old suffered severe head injuries whilst driving a car that collided with a bus early on Monday morning in Cali, Colombia. The medical director of the Imbanaco Clinic in Cali […]

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Three quarters believe he ‘knowingly lied’ More than half of the British public think that Prime Minister Boris Johnson should resign after he was found to have broken covid rules. The PM was fined for attending his 56th birthday party at Downing Street in June 2020, when covid regulations banned indoor socialising. He has since […]

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He waited two days before seeking medical attention A surgeon had to use their ‘forearm’ to ‘manually extract’ a 2kg dumbbell from a man’s anus after he had got it stuck in his rectum. The unidentified 54-year-old Brazilian man turned up at a hospital in Manaus complaining of abdominal pain, nausea and being unable to […]

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She spent years campaigning against hate crime following her daughter’s death Sylvia Lancaster, whose daughter Sophie was brutally murdered in 2007, has died suddenly. Sophie Lancaster was 20 when she was kicked to death by teenage boys in Bacup, Lancashire while her boyfriend was badly beaten, because they were dressed like Goths. Her killer Ryan […]

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Nato’s membership is set to grow further Sweden is set to join Nato this summer, in what would be another blow to Vladimir Putin and Russia. Countries such as Sweden have previously been reluctant to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, preferring to remain largely neutral on the international stage. But Putin’s invasion of Russia […]

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The ambulance crossed the border into Ukraine on Sunday night A doctor from Wales has driven an ambulance to Ukraine as part of efforts to help the country, just days after another of his ambulances was shelled by Russian forces. It’s the third emergency vehicle that Dr Aled Jones has helped donate to Ukraine, with […]

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The man had recently been critical of the New York City Mayor New York City police have identified a “person of interest” after 10 people were shot in a Brooklyn subway attack on Tuesday morning. During rush hour, a male attacker fired a weapon “at least 33 times,” shooting seven men and three women. Another […]

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He is the current MP for Wakefield Tory MP Imran Ahmad Khan has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a teenager in 2008. Khan denied groping the 15-year-old at a house in Staffordshire in January 2008, but was found guilty on Monday (April 11) after a week-long trial, the BBC reports. The victim, who cannot […]

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One of the sub-variants has already been detected in Scotland and England The World Health Organisation is investigating two new Omicron sub-variants to work out whether they are more serious than their predecessor. The BA.4 and BA.5 variants have been added to the WHO’s monitoring list, with BA.4 having already been detected once in both […]

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‘Evidence that Don’t Look Up is more of a documentary’ Richard Madeley interviewed a Just Stop Oil protestor on Good Morning Britain on Monday morning, and viewers couldn’t help but notice similarities with an iconic scene in apocalyptic dark comedy Don’t Look Up. If you’ve seen the Netflix film starring Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio […]

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Thousands took part in the Big Power Switch Off on Sunday night People are calling for Sunday night’s Big Power Switch Off to become a weekly occurrence to protest against soaring energy bills, with a second edition already scheduled to take place this week. At 10pm on Sunday (April 10), people across the country turned […]

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A genius ahead of his time A video of a shopper in Australia has gone viral after he showed off the tattoo of a supermarket rewards card on his arm, scanning it at the checkout to get those precious points. In a clip shared on TikTok, shopper Ralph Rivera (@ralphrivera247) gets himself a bottle of […]

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‘I got my hearing back’ Chris Rock has joked about the now-infamous Will Smith slap in a recent show in California. At the Oscars on March 27, Will Smith slapped Rock on stage after he joked about Jada Pinkett Smith‘s shaved head, saying he couldn’t wait to see her in the G.I. Joe sequel. Pinkett […]

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Russia has warned that joining will lead to the ‘destruction of their country’ Finland and Sweden are set to join NATO as early as this summer as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues. Both countries are reconsidering their stance on NATO membership following Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine. Finland in particular is keen to join […]

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The chancellor has asked for a review in order to provide ‘clarity’ about the situation Chancellor Rishi Sunak is facing an investigation into his financial interests as questions continue to swirl over how transparent he has been about his personal wealth. In recent days there have been a number of revelations about Sunak and his […]

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Medicinal cannabis is currently legal but only in very specific forms Cannabis could soon become available on the NHS for those suffering from chronic pain. A trial is set to take place later this month involving 100 people to assess the safety of using the drug to treat pain relief. Run by private pain clinic […]

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The rapper must wear an electronic tag for the next 24 weeks Dizzee Rascal was told that he had shown “no remorse” as he was spared jail on Friday for assaulting his ex-fiancée in a row over child custody and money. The Brit Award and Mercury prize winner was found guilty of assaulting his former […]

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Very little is know about the mysterious Greenland shark species A super-rare Greenland shark stranded on a British beach died of meningitis – the first time the infection has been found in the elusive species, a report found on Friday (April 8). The female shark measuring 3.96m long was discovered stuck near Cornwall’s Newlyn Harbour […]

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Friends had tried to persuade him not to travel to Ukraine and fight An Aldi manager from Ireland who travelled to Ukraine to fight for his country has been killed. Ukrainian Oleksandr Zavhorodniy, affectionately known as ‘Alex’ to his friends and colleagues, had lived in Ireland for almost 20 years and worked in Sandyford, Dublin. […]

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Horrific stories continue to emerge from areas that have been under weeks of Russian occupation The deputy mayor of a town has said that Ukrainian girls have been cutting their hair so that they are “less attractive” in order to avoid being raped by Russian soldiers. In recent days Ukrainian forces have forced Russian occupiers […]

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The meeting to decide whether Smith will keep his Oscar was moved forward to Friday Will Smith is set to find out on Friday whether he will have his Oscar taken off him for slapping Chris Rock at the awards ceremony last month. The actor grabbed the headlines for all the wrong reasons after he […]

4 years ago

Even the police found it funny A man in Indonesia complained to the police after he was scammed into buying celery instead of weed. And like everyone else, they found it pretty funny In an undeniably amusing video shared on Instagram, police officers speaking to the man can be heard laughing as he unfurls the […]

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No confirmation at the moment as to whether the UK government is funding similar projects… The Pentagon has been researching how to communicate with alien civilisations, according to official US files. In Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) documents obtained by the Sun after a Freedom of Information request, the agency discusses a scientific study into SETI, […]

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