A DOZEN children at a Paris nursery school, together with an adult, watched as a man in his 60s killed himself with a sawn-off shotgun yesterday (Thursday). It happened just before noon, as infants at the RochefoucauldSchool were leaving the premises for their lunch break. A single shot was fired and no one else was [...]
THE Foreign Office has produced a list of the most bizarre requests to British posts abroad. And some of the demands made should put a smile on your face – or cause you to shake your head in disbelief. Silencing a noisy cockerel, supplying Olympic tickets and providing contact details for Sir Paul McCartney’s wife [...]
EVIL Stuart Hazell was jailed for at least 38 years on Tuesday after receiving a life sentence for the murder of schoolgirl Tia Sharp. Hazell forced 12-year-old Tia Sharp’s parents to sit through days of horrendous and graphic evidence at the Old Bailey before changing his “not guilty” plea and confessing to killing her. The [...]
BRITAIN’S biggest clothing retailer, Marks & Spencer, has recruited a top executive from Spanish-owned fashion brand Massimo Dutti. The appointment of Queralt Ferrer, as the new head of design for its Autograph and Limited ranges, was announced on Wednesday as the company unveiled its most important womenswear collection in recent history. Ms Ferrer will be [...]
AUTHOR Dan Brown is already experiencing the sweet and sour taste of success with his latest offering. His novel, Inferno, will almost certainly be snapped up by millions, -, it is unlikely to win any literary prizes if critics have their way. One reviewer has described it as his “his worst book yet”. But that [...]
TWO children, discovered on a remote Australian beach, were taken into care after their mother was washed up dead. And, as we went to press last night (Thursday), their father was still missing after a snorkelling trip that went desperately wrong. Police continued to search for 48-year-old Robert Shugg after the body of his 41-year-old [...]
SOME seven million adults in Britain have steered clear of the internet, and another one million have ventured on to the web in the past year. But new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) also show that 14% of over-16s have never accessed material online. It is interesting to note that more women [...]
ONE in five British households is borrowing money from somewhere to pay for food, such is the state of the nation’s poverty. In all, five million families are approaching financial “breaking point”, according to research carried out by consumer group Which? They say their monthly incomes would not stretch to cover all the food costs [...]
DESPITE a recent survey which revealed that walking is every bit as good for your health as jogging, just 25% of adults walk for no more than an hour each week. This was made clear in a YouGov survey for the Ramblers – a walking charity – which polled 2,000 adults acrossBritainabout walking habits. It [...]
A £54,000 benefits fiddler has mocked British justice after avoiding a jail sentence. Brian Carter, who was handed a 200-hour community service order, could have received a nine-month prison sentence. He celebrated by pledging to ignore a court’s demand to repay the money. The jobless council tenant, from Basildon,Essex, who owns two cars and [...]
