Former Aston Villa player Dalian Atkinson has been named as the 48-year-old man who died in Telford after being tasered by police. Officers from West Mercia Police were called to a scene at around 1:30am this morning after calls from people concerned about the safety of Atkinson. A Taser was used and Atkinson, who ...
Re-using plastic bottles could be as a bad as licking a toilet seat or your pet's bowl, according to new research. A study testing four types of water bottle - screw-top, slide-top, squeeze-top and straw-top - revealed that certain types could have as much bacteria as a kitchen sink if left ...
Lucky spectators saw plenty of drama at the fifth round of the Red Bull Air Race Championship at Ascot this weekend. The breathtaking aerial track race sees daredevil pilots flying 20 meters or so off the ground through a winding course made up of inflated pylon gates. They are travelling ...
War heroes that served in Iraq and Afghanistan are being "forgotten about", according to a new study that unveils a shocking lack of awareness around modern warfare. Despite the ongoing sacrifices made by heroic men and women, more than three quarters of people feel British soldiers and veterans are often ...
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has the green light to start privatising the National Health Service, according to Owen Smith. The Labour leadership candidate accused the Tory government of secretly dismantling parts of the NHS and handing them over to the private sector. Department of Health (DH) figures show the amount ...
Review by Leslie Byron Pitt Louder than Bombs deals with an ex-actor (Gabriel Byrne) and his two sons (Devin Druid and Jesse Eisenberg) try their best to confront their fractured feelings of their lives and each other on the eve of an exhibition of their deceased wife and mother (Isabelle ...
A man who literally couldn’t deal with the story that the EU was going to enforce the straitening of bananas, so punched himself repeatedly in the face until he was unconscious, has said he won't let project fear scare him over over predictions of a meltdown in the UK economy. ...
This news will anger the millions of voters who voted for the UK to leave the European Project. There is a fear that Britain is “not ready” to leave the European Union, meaning the UK might remain part of the EU for a few more years. This would give the ...
Canada’s reputation precedes it: it’s the world’s capital of cool as proved by the most awesome Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. It’s so unhomophobic it’s progressed from being gay-friendly to gay-neutral, it’s pumped money into its arts and culture, it has America’s amenities and Europe’s refinement, it gave us Drake, and ...