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Ten month-old baby nearly died after being fed eggs unwittingly laced with ketamine
A ten month-old baby girl nearly died after being fed eggs unwittingly laced with the rave drug ketamine, it has been revealed. The meal was cooked in dishes that had been used to prepare the notorious horse tranquilliser, better known as 'Special K'. The infant, her brother and grandmother were all discovered unconscious at home by a family member and rushed to hospital by ambulance. She spent six days in a coma on a life support machine after emergency surgery...
Paedophile encouraged a nine-year-old girl to expose herself on camera using a popular live streaming app
A paedophile encouraged a nine-year-old girl to expose herself on camera using a popular live streaming app. Glen Friend, 28, posted an intimate video of the young girl on social media site Live.Me, which was viewed by almost 300 users before it was removed. The 'predatory sexual offender' had hidden behind a fake identity to groom the vulnerable girl on the site, which is one of the fastest growing of its kind. He was caught after an intelligence-led operation directed...
Watch – UK man locates missing four-year-old-girl in US from his bedroom…5,000 MILES away
A British Sainsbury's worker cracked a US police case when he located a missing four-year-old-girl from his bedroom -- 5,000 MILES away. Harry Brown, 21, traced little Yvette Henley to a motel in Arizona by convincing her estranged father - who had fled the state - to let him order a PIZZA to his room. Yvette was reportedly staying with her father Virgil Henley, 28, when a court granted guardianship to her grandparents, Gary and Kim Forester. Yvette Henley with...
Horrific Boomtown Fair Queue gets Weird and Wonderful
This year's Boomtown Fair queue is quickly becoming notorious for the shocking time it took for festival goes to gain entry into the site. Some revellers were waiting for a staggering seven and a half hours to gain entry into music festival site. This comes after the Winchester based festival ramped up their security searches. Security teams were searching for prohibited equipment and drugs after last year's event, when a car park fire damaged hundreds of cars. There has also...
Watch -13 sets of adorable twins are to start primary school in just one area
A Scottish council has once again become one of the areas with the most twins starting primary school after 13 sets enrolled this year. The children will join a remarkable 151 sets of twins who attend primary schools across Inverclyde. It is thought to be the council area with the highest number of twins in the classroom. For the past 10 years there have been - on average - 775 registered births a year in Inverclyde. Over the same period...
Technical glitch turns Morrisons sign into “Morons, since 1989”
A popular supermarket chain was let down when its sign malfunctioned spectacularly and now reads: 'Morons, since 1899'. Staff at Morrisons in Bridgwater, Somerset, were made aware of the technical glitch after customers posted photographs on social media. Steve Tomaszewski, who captured a photo, said: "I know I should grow up, and I like the store and staff, but this bulb failure made me smile." The photo was circulated on the Bridgwater Matters Facebook page where Julian Gibson said: "I'm...
British businessman boards wrong flight home from Cologne – Ends up in Las Vegas
A British businessman boarded the wrong flight home and landed in Las Vegas - even though he claims airline staff checked his boarding pass THREE times. Finance broker Samuel Jankowsky, 29, a finance broker was supposed to be flying home to Stansted after meetings in Cologne, Germany. It was only after an hour-long nap he woke up and spotted the Eurowings aircraft had flown past the UK on the journey-tracker on the entertainment system. He frantically Whatsapped his pregnant wife...
Empty property numbers at their highest level in 20 years as homelessness soars
Empty property numbers are at their highest level in 20 years, according to new figures, with Grenfell Tower borough Kensington & Chelsea home to the highest number of empty homes. Government figures have today found that empty property numbers have soared over the past two decades with 1.4 million ‘spare’ homes been left empty for at least six months. The Sell House Fast study shows affluent areas such as south west London boroughs have the most unoccupied homes, despite the capital...
Man who was jailed for 21 days for not buying a £2.70 train ticket is freed by a judge
A man was jailed for 21 days for not buying a £2.70 train ticket, it emerged today. Bradley Howsego, 22, was sent down after admitting that he had admitted to a train conductor that he had 'bunked' the fare. However, Howsego was freed by a Crown Court judge who slammed the sentence handed out as 'entirely inappropriate.' Judge Jonathan Seely said fare evasion was not a crime across Europe. Seely dismissed claims by train operator Greater Anglia that Howsego had six...