An employment tribunal has ruled that Jonas Gutierrez was dropped by Newcastle United because of his cancer diagnosis. The Argentinian midfielder had a clause in his contract that would trigger an extension to his deal, but he was denied a deal through appearances, a decision made by the then club manager Alan Pardew. ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor In the early hours of Thursday morning two Iranian men were rescued in an inflatable dinghy in the English Channel, after the light from one of their mobile phones was seen by a passing ship. The pair may have been out at sea for up ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor By 2020 schools could be looking at a £7.5billion budget shortfall by 2020, the Labour party has announced. The black hole in education finances could lead to large scale redundancies and could mean class sizes could increase. The news has come as analysts have said ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor People in the capital will need to earn over £100k a year by 2020 to purchase their first home according to a report by housing and homelessness charity Shelter. First time buyers will need an average deposit of £138,000 to keep up with the staggering ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor After decades of looking for the Loch Ness Monster, a research team came across this shape on their radar. Had they found the most famous and most illusive creature on the planet? Well, no, they haven’t. It turns out the shape was in fact a ...
Every Saturday at 9am, tens of thousands of runners in 850 locations across 12 countries head to their local park to compete in the Parkrun. Founded on the ethos of being free and open to everyone, Parkrun is not for the uber-competitive racers, it's not for the casual joggers or even the ...
Look at photos of Irish women from the 1950s and '60s and you'll see plenty of covered heads. Women of all ages wore wool shawls pulled over their heads as they went about their daily chores, bustling children off to school, buying fresh fish at little stalls or rushing off ...
Pictures have been released by the US Navy showing Russian fighter jets making a dangerously close pass over the guided missile destroyer USS Donald Cook. The ship was 'buzzed' on April 11, 2016 in the Baltic Sea by a pair of Sukhoi Su-24 Fencer fighters. Pictures released on US Navy Twitter show ...
The lead singer of punk band The Story So Far has been filmed drop kicking a girl off stage during a concert for taking a selfie. The five piece band were drawing the set to a close when a crowd surfer made it to the stage at Mod Club in Toronto. When ...