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A crowdfunding appeal has been set up to help three boys who have been orphaned after their parents both died in suspected suicides - six years apart. The fund is designed to help Kai, 28, Nat, 17, and Brock Neville, 10, after they lost their mum Angie, who was believed to have taken her own life at the age of 48 just before Christmas. Her death came six years after the body of their father, Mark, was found in the...

Slum landlords who crammed up to 40 migrants inside their semi-detached suburban house face losing over a third of a million pounds they made, a court heard Mum Harsha, 53, daughter Chandni, 27, and brother-in-law Sanjay Shah, 54, rented their four bedroom property through an agent who at one point managed 40 Indian migrants and poor Londoners living there. For over five years the Shah family, together with agent Jaydipkumar Valand, 42, were paid between £40 and £75 per week...

The oldest known human fossil found outside of Africa suggests modern humans left the continent at least 50,000 years earlier than previously thought. The fossil, an upper jawbone with several teeth, was found in one of several prehistoric cave sites in Israel. Dating techniques of material and the jawbone said it is between 175,000 and 200,000 years old, pushing back the modern human migration out of Africa by at least 50,000 years. Before the latest discovery, the earliest modern human...

The family of an elderly dementia patient are outraged after a carer who was caught on camera repeatedly smacking their mum got let off – which a police caution. Stacey George, 46, was also filmed telling 78-year-old Sabina Marsden, “God you stink” and snatching a blanket from her knee leaving her half-naked and sobbing. Her daughter Gina Owen watched the shocking abuse in real time as it was live-streamed to her mobile phone. The Italian-born grandmother-of-two and widow can be...

Prince Harry's fiancee Meghan Markle has an ancestor who studied at Cambridge University and was a friend of Oliver Cromwell, a historian has revealed. Reverend William Skepper, the princess-to-be's great-grandfather nine times removed, went to Sidney Sussex College in the early 1600s. Skepper graduated with a bachelor of arts at the same time as English Civil War leader Cromwell, whose skull is said to be buried somewhere in the college grounds. The connection - discovered by Australian historian Michael Reed...

This is the shocking moment a boy racer was captured on CCTV crashing a Mercedes convertible into a house - before casually walking away. Footage shows the tracksuit-wearing driver travelling along a quiet street before he suddenly loses control of the silver motor. It swerves across the road and mounts a pavement before demolishing a metal hand rail of a semi-detached house. The driver manages to force open the buckled door before dusting himself down and gesturing to a passerby...

This is the dramatic moment a have-a-go-hero shopkeeper bravely fought off a gang of robbers who stormed into his shop and started battering him with HAMMERS. Raj Sandhu, 58, had been emptying the cash machine in his store when three masked men burst in at 8.20pm on Monday (22/1). Shocking CCTV shows the shop owner being repeatedly hit with hammers but he bravely stands up to thugs and fights back by beating them with cash boxes. One yob can be...

A violent racist young mother has been jailed after attacking a random woman in the street and calling her a 'dirty n****r'. Chloe Glew, 20, had 11 previous convictions for 20 offences, and flouted previous court orders that kept her out of prison. Her victim had been walking down an alleyway in Tonbridge, Kent, when the vile mum launched her unprovoked attack. She told the woman "I’m going to beat your f***ing head in", before pulling her hair and punching...

A shattered new mum was forced to sit in a hard chair for five hours immediately after giving birth - following 96 hours of no sleep. Saralee Jack, 31, spent four days wide awake struggling with contraction pains before giving birth to little Tommy Davies on 13 January. During the ordeal the full-time mum suffered days of immense pain while waiting for bed until midnight. The diabetic says she was also not given food and relied on the grandmother of...