Flash flooding has left parts of Aberystwyth under water as the Met Office issued thunderstorm warnings for most of the UK until Thursday. The Environment… Read More »Flash flooding leaves Welsh town under water as warnings issued for UK

Boris Johnson is attempting to persuade people it is safe to visit A&E, after it was revealed patients’ reluctance to attend because of coronavirus may… Read More »A&E ‘safe’, says PM, after fears led to ‘16,000’ non-COVID deaths

A pair of Mahatma Gandhi’s glasses are going under the hammer after they were discovered in an envelope hanging halfway out of an auction house’s… Read More »Gandhi’s glasses found in auctioneer’s letterbox after two days

A total of 449 sex offences were committed in the past year against babies before they reached their first birthday, figures obtained by the NSPCC… Read More »‘Truly sickening figures’: 449 sex crimes committed against babies last year

A BBC radio DJ has quit after the corporation used a racist slur in a news report, which he said felt like “a slap in… Read More »BBC radio DJ quits over use of racist term in news report

In the first 24 hours of tighter restrictions in Preston it seemed most people, but not all, were buying into the council’s new public health… Read More »‘The bans were lifted too soon’: People adapting to new restrictions in Preston

Police in Durham have reopened a cold case murder of 30 years, in the hope that new forensic techniques will help solve the crime. Ann… Read More »Detectives hope new forensic technology will solve murder case 30 years on

Fire crews are battling a huge wildfire on Chobham Common in Surrey. Some 10 fire engines, two water carriers and several other vehicles have been… Read More »Fire crews battling huge blaze on Chobham Common in Surrey

A children’s author has been shot in the head by an attacker who is understood have died minutes later in a motorcycle accident. Police say… Read More »Man shoots children’s author in head ‘before dying in motorcycle crash minutes later’