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Huge fire engulfs mental hospital after a patient is seen fleeing the scene
Emergency crews scrambled to the George Bryan Centre next to the Sir Robert Peel Hospital in Mile Oak, Tamworth
Hatton Garden heist ringleader ‘refused medical treatment day before he died – because he was watching rugby’
Terry Perkins, 69, told prison officers he was feeling unwell less than 24 hours before he was found dead in his cell at maximum security Belmarsh jail in south east London
Woman and man died in car crash while fleeing police 20 minutes after robbing homeowners at knife-point
The pair were killed after their car smashed head on into a coach while driving on the wrong side of the A40 dual carriageway on Sunday night
Murder appeal for killer of ‘doting dad’ stabbed to death over cigarette
Dennis Anderson, 39, pronounced dead at the scene in East Dulwich was the fifth person to be murdered in London in just a fortnight
Latest unearthed historical Eurosceptic Corbyn speech adds to Labour Party tensions
New video show Labour leader's hardline stance
Watch: Leave-voting expats realise an end to free movement also applies to them
A video of a Leave-voting expat who bought his Spanish holiday home after the referendum has been making the rounds on social media after he realised an end to free movement would apply to him too. Dave, who bought a holiday home in Spain after voting to leave, says he would vote to remain if there was a second referendum. Explaining the reasons behind his change of heart, he said freedom of movement in Europe for "proper Europeans" was among...
Nazi pug Ukipper brags he still has not paid fine and taunts cops ‘come and get me’
Markus Meechan, who uses the monicker Count Dankula, insisted he did not regret his actions
First signs of movement on Earth – probably made by “slug-like” creature around 2.1 BILLION years ago – discovered
The previous oldest remnants were dated to 570 million years ago, but the new evidence was uncovered in a fossil deposit in Gabon
Gavin Williamson roasted for Tory defence cuts as he boasts Brexit to ‘enhance UK’s lethality’
Brexit 'can enhance UK's lethality', insisted the Defence Secretary today, before being promptly derided by all sides and reminded of the scale of Tory defence cuts. Brexit, said Gavin Williamson, recently mocked for suggesting Gibraltar could be defended from Spain with paintball guns, was an opportunity for Britain to be a global military leader. The former Tory Chief Whip who used to keep a tarantula named Cronus on his desk gave a customarily belligerent address to a defence thinktank today....