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KFC transformed its latest London restaurant into a nightclub for its grand opening this weekend. The brand new Mornington Crescent KFC launched with blacked-out windows and high-tech lighting as it became a hip hop club for the night. And given that you're probably going to end up there anyway, this came as a godsend to clubbers who managed to feast away while strutting their stuff. Top DJ Bradley Johnson and BURST spent the evening spinning tunes behind the counter for...

Thieves have been branded as “sick and cynical” after raiding a store and making off with charity cash being raised in support dementia research. The break-in in the early hours of Monday is the latest in a string of burglaries at retail outlets in Hawick, Roxburghshire. An estimated £600 in coins stacked up in a gallon whisky bottle were snatched. The manager of the Iceland store, Bill Innes, told of his outrage at the raid. He is convinced the culprits...

A woman had a cocaine-themed birthday cake made for her boyfriend - decorated with fake lines of coke, ecstasy tablets and rolled up £50 notes. Stacey Morris, 22, wanted to surprise her boyfriend Ollie, 23, with a cake he would remember at his party. The decorated Victoria sponge was "just a joke" and Stacey was inundated with thousands of messages after she posted pics on Facebook. A number of people commenting on the viral photos joked it had "Jeremy Kyle...

A convicted murderer has received tens of thousands of pounds from a police force following a botched investigation into the killing of a promising football star. Levi Walker was one of four men originally found guilty of the "execution-style" murder of Kevin Nunes. Nunes, who had been on the books of Tottenham Hotspur, was found dead in a country lane in Pattingham, Staffs., on September 19, 2002. Narel Sharpe, a soldier on leave from Iraq, who was killed on Oldbury...

A suspected fraudster denied trying to swindle nearly £10,000 of pounds and goods by falsely claiming he lost his wife and son in the Grenfell Tower fire, a court heard. Anh Nhu Nguyen, 52, tried to scam a council and charities out of cash, clothing, food and electronic goods by pretending he had lost his home and "worldly possessions", it is claimed. He posed as a victim for nearly two weeks, and was put up in a Holiday Inn, Southwark...

A devastated mother has expressed sympathy with the families of the two men convicted of killing her son, saying their lives were ruined too. Russell Robertson, 27, died after falling into the Forth and Clyde Canal following an altercation with two men on May 29 last year. Mark Munro, 31, and James Robertson, 27, were on trial accused of murdering Russell, but were convicted of the reduced charge of culpable homicide. Russell's mum, Margaret Girvan, told of her grief after...

A violent bully broke into his ex girlfriend's house and held her hostage in an ordeal of "uncontrolled viciousness" during which he forced an angry dog to BITE her. He used the growling and irate dog as a weapon during the horrendous attack and later kept his victim prisoner in her own home for 57 hours. A court was told that he was "completely off his head" and threatened to kill his ex girlfriend with scissors. The traumatised victim described...

A daughter who emigrated to Florida had the shock of her life - after spotting her dead mum watering the plants outside the family's old home on Google Earth. Denise Underhill was doing housework when she started thinking about her late mum Beryl Turton, who had died 18 months earlier aged 86. While browsing her mum's old street in Polesworth, Tamworth, Staffs., on Google she was stunned when she saw a picture of her mum tending to the flower beds....

A pensioner is living in fear of a flock of seagulls who are attacking her every time she goes in and out of her home. Linda Boylen, 61, says up to 15 birds have bombarded her during 'five weeks of hell'. The problem began when three chicks fell from a nest on a neighbour's property onto her patio. The parents of the young see Linda as a threat and have been fiercely protecting them - aided by other birds who...