This is the terrifying moment residents feared there was another "terror attack" in London after a moped gang were spotted fleeing a stabbing - wielding a SHOTGUN. Onlookers said they heard "five bangs" before a yob on a moped screeched to a halt carrying a passenger brandishing a shotgun. A film, taken by a frightened local on Tuesday (6th) night, shows the moped driver and his armed passenger rowing with a gang on the pavement in central London. Onlookers on...
A former nurse claims she is being forced to live in her car and eat dog food because of swinging cuts to her benefits. Ann Cumberland-Quinn, 56, say she has struggled since her Personal Independence Payment (PIP) was stopped following a review in December. She was then dealt a further blow when her Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) benefit was slashed to £250 a fortnight from £375 in February of this year under government cuts. Ann has been living in...
By Courtney Greatrex A man was jailed after he was caught on dash-cam running over his girlfriend’s foot and bundling her into his car. Ashleigh Earl, 25, has released harrowing footage of the moment jobless Jack Cann, 22, reversed into her in December. The brute forced her into his car and in a two-hour ordeal beat Ashleigh with a log before she escaped. Last month, videos caught on a motion-sensor dash-cam and Ashleigh’s iPhone saw the thug jailed for 56...
An investigation is underway after a sick hoaxer threatened to blow up a Scottish high school -- just hours after the terror attack in Manchester. Parents, pupils and staff were left sickened by the bomb hoax early on Tuesday morning. Youngsters remained in their classes at Barrhead High School, East Renfrewshire, as police officers carried out a two-hour search. The hoax threat came only hours after a devastating attack at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester which...
This heart-stopping dashcam footage captures a reckless driver swerving across three lanes of a busy motorway to make the exit slip road. Trucker Mike James was approaching junction 11a of the M5 in Gloucestershire when a black Audi A3 overtook him in the outside lane. But seconds later it suddenly swerves left towards the southbound slip road - squeezing between two moving cars in the middle lane. The car kicks up a plume of dust on the slip road hazard...
This is the shocking moment a council bin man trashes a homeless man's possessions while his back is turned. The rough sleeper had set up 'home' on the streets of Cambridge but after moving from his spot, refuse collectors were quick to bundle away his possessions. He said: “I had the only three photographs of my son which I own which they dumped. It is just shocking. He died three weeks ago in a car crash. He was in care because...
James Ellis, 15, was feeling shaky and unwell but was asked to PROVE he had the condition before he was allowed to order at the branch in Yardley, Birmingham. He was eventually sold two burgers after he emptied the medical contents of his diabetic pouch on the counter. His mother Victoria Ellis said James, who was diagnosed with type one diabetes three weeks ago, had gone to the chain with four friends on Tuesday afternoon. Mrs Ellis, 40, said: “They...
An 101-year-old pensioner teamed up with his elderly son to catch a thieving carer who he suspected had been stealing money from him. Laura Dignum was caught red-handed on a hidden camera installed by the suspicious relatives of frail Frank Mullins. The disturbing video lasts over a minute and shows 30-year-old Dignum looking nervously for signs of anyone coming as she bends down and rifles through a drawer. She is filmed leaving the bedroom empty-handed before returning seconds later. Dignum...
This is the dramatic moment an out-of-control Ford Mondeo smashed head on into a van - after swerving onto the wrong side of the road. Dash cam footage shows the silver car dangerously speed past vehicles at a junction in West Bromwich, West Mids, at 6.30am on April 5. The reckless manoeuvre caused the car to clip the kerb and career into the opposite lane before ploughing into the van being driven by Jason Dixon. Jason, who was on his...
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