Snow has begun to fall in Scotland and north-east England as the country prepares for an Arctic blast of blizzard conditions and freezing temperatures. Several weather warnings are already in place and motoring organisations have warned that the snow could create hazardous driving conditions.
A teenager committed suicide in front a live webcam as 1,500 people watching online egged him on.
The BBC faced growing anger today after Jonathan Ross was cleared to return to his £6 million-a-year job.
A 10-year-old boy has been told he can cycle to school - but only if his mother drives behind him and takes his bicycle home with her. Keen cyclist Sam O'Shea delighted his mother Angela when he told her he wanted to take the 'green' option and ride the two miles to school. His primary school imposed the bizarre restriction saying it had nowhere to store bicycles. ...read
Soaring numbers of buy-to-let investors have not paid a penny of their mortgage and face losing their property, official figures revealed today.
Gordon Brown could call an election next June in the hope of benefiting from a 'recession bounce", it was reported today.
A teenager, who became so hooked on caffeine-laced energy drinks that she collapsed and had to be rushed to hospital, was told to give them up or she could die.
60 hooded yobs gatecrashed a restaurant after a girl advertised her 16th birthday party on Facebook. The private school teen's party, at a community centre in south London, was wrecked by thugs.
A British holidaymaker died in an Indonesian hospital after doctors refused to treat him until they received hundreds of dollars in bribes, an MP has claimed.
A student hanged himself after joining a controversial alcohol-fuelled university event, an inquest has heard. Gethin Bevan was found hanging from a tree behind a nightclub after he took part in a 'party' night set up by promoters known as Carnage UK.
A suspected BNP member was the victim of a firebomb attack last night. The attack comes after a list of 12,000 members of the nationalist party was published on the internet.
Aliens may have once made a 'sinister' night time visit to Birmingham, a new report suggests.
A British sailor who was adrift in a life raft in the Mediterranean was rescued after his worried wife dialled 999 from the family home in England.
A man dumped his 84-year-old mother at council offices after claiming social services had failed to help him care for her.
A British-born playboy has been convicted of murdering his model girlfriend by hurling her from the top of a cliff. Gordon Wood, 46, was found guilty today of killing 24-year-old model Caroline Byrne and now faces life in prison. Miss Byrne's body was found 'wedged like a spear' at the bottom of the Gap, a notorious 100ft cliffside suicide spot at the entrance to Australia's Sydney harbour in June 1995. ...read
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A former Met Police sergeant who used his Scotland Yard credit card to withdraw £9,000 and pay off his bar bill was spared jail today.
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