Broken Britain

Two people arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving after a van ploughed through the front of a house killing an elderly woman have been released under investigation. Joan Woodier, 90, was in the front room of her home on a quiet street in Clevedon, North Somerset, when a Ford Transit van crashed into the house on Wednesday night. A woman aged 34 and a 33-year-old man were arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. They have now been...

Jamie Wood videoed the sawn-off shotgun being fired at the house following long-running conflict with a feuding gang member in Birmingham.

A mother claims a rat the size of a small dog ran up her son's leg after a plague of the rodents has hit her neighbourhood. Kaylee Kennedy, 28, says the rodents are out of control after invading the area around her home. She claims they have chewed through the wires of her car and caused her to run out of gas as she's too terrified to go outside. Kaylee said: "The rats are huge, they are massive. “If you...

This is the shocking moment a cop uses his police car to mow down a suspect - before saying 'that's how you deal with that'. Footage shown to a police misconduct panel captured PC Rowan Huskisson, 33, mounting the pavement and driving into pedestrian Sam Whitmore. After seeing him fall to the floor, police bodycam footage caught him saying: "That's how you deal with that". But despite his “utterly unacceptable” behaviour and being found guilty of misconduct, PC Huskisson has...

Shocking footage captured the moment Shahid Ali ran over Patrick Colbert's head in his Mercedes

A timewaster dialled 999 to complain about their baby being woken up by the RED ARROWS flying overhead, police have revealed. Another person rang the emergency number to moan someone had stolen the fuse from a plug in the staff room so he couldn't watch an England football match on TV. Others who misused the service included people reporting that their pet mouse had escaped and a homeowner in a flap over a squirrel getting into their house. One caller...

A man born to parents who came to the UK on the Empire Windrush has been forced to miss his daughter's wedding - because he has been denied a British passport. Joseph Bravo, who has lived in the UK for 54 years, says he was unable to travel to daughter Charmaine's wedding in Cyprus because 'he does not exist.' Mr Bravo says he was left heartbroken after being forced to watch the ceremony on Facetime instead earlier this month. The...

A disabled woman with a speech impediment was thrown out of a Wetherspoons pub because managers thought she was drunk. Grace Currie, 24, was ordered to leave when she tried to order a vodka and coke while enjoying a night out with friends. Despite trying to explain that she had suffered a brain injury which caused her to slur her words, a bouncer frogmarched her out the pub. Grace almost died when she was mown down by a car in...

A teenage boy has appeared in court charged with the rape and murder of a 14-year-old schoolgirl who was found dead in a park. Tragic Viktorija Sokolova was discovered by a passer-by in West Park, Wolverhampton just before 7am on Thursday (12/4). Nothing could be done to save the teenager, known as Tori, who died as a result of "blunt force trauma to the head". A 16-year-old Wolverhampton boy appeared at Dudley Magistrates Court today (16/4) and spoke only to...