LET’S get one thing clear — the West Ham fans who invaded the pitch on Saturday were bang out of order. There are no excuses, no strength of feeling can justify that. And the bottom line, the most crucial point, is that it will only damage the team’s chances in the game itself. But while […]
JENNIFER Lopez claims a film director once ordered her to show him her boobs. The singer and actress says the boss of an early film told her to take off her shirt and made her afraid to report the abuse. Jennifer spoke out about the Me Too movement and on her own experience of sexual […]
A CARDBOARD swastika was found on the windowsill at the home of a soldier accused of being a member of a banned neo-Nazi group, a jury heard. Pte Mark Barrett, 25, also had a diary containing racist slogans at his barracks in Cyprus and a photo on his phone of a burning cross taken at […]
SHUTTING British banks out of the Single Market will backfire and “significantly weaken” the EU, Brussels has been warned. Georges Ugeux, a former president of the European Investment Fund, branded eurocrats “naive” over their opposition to a special deal for the City. The Belgian, who was also a bigwig on the New York Stock Exchange, […]
RYANAIR boss Michael O’Leary infuriated customers yesterday by landing £261,000 prize money. Three of his horses won, including Balko Des Flos in the Ryanair Chase. O’Leary, 56, said: “It’s taken me 15 years to win the Ryanair so I’m going to enjoy it. “I’m going to get seriously drunk.” He always presents the trophy to […]
AIRBUS, a key customer of engineer GKN, has delivered a blow to the prospects of the suitor which wants to buy the firm for £8billion. Restructuring firm Melrose would likely hold onto the firm for a limited number of years. This prompted Airbus’ chief operating officer Tom Williams to say: “The industry does not lend […]
A TOTAL of 131 people are being monitored by police for possible exposure to the nerve agent in Russia’s spy attack, it emerged last night. None has developed any symptoms so far, Wiltshire’s Deputy Chief Constable Paul Mills told a public meeting. Det Sgt Nick Bailey, seriously ill from exposure after racing to help the […]
BULLSEYE fans are cashing in on the death of host Jim Bowen by flogging the show’s iconic Bendy Bullies online. A splurge of auctions for the plastic toys where created following the news of his passing on Wednesday, with one being listed for £99.99 on eBay. The toy, a nod to the show’s Bully mascot, […]
RECORD numbers of prescriptions were doled out by the NHS last year, official figures show. Doctors issued 1.1 billion in 2017 — up 39 per cent in a decade. Analysis reveals use of medication for depression, high blood pressure and statins has soared, fuelling fears Britain has become a nation of pill poppers. Data from […]
JEREMY Corbyn was last night blasted by the father-in-law of the cop who was poisoned in the nerve agent attack. William Pomeroy, whose daughter Sarah is married to Det Sgt Nick Bailey, said he felt let down by the Labour leader. He said: “He has been a bit mealy-mouthed about Russia’s involvement. He should be […]
THE West stood on the brink of a new Cold War last night as it united behind Theresa May in condemning Russia for its chemical weapon “assault on UK sovereignty”. Donald Trump for the first time publicly blamed Russia for the Salisbury nerve agent attack as Downing Street engaged in a frantic round of global […]
CORONATION Street boss Kate Oates says “I’m not going anywhere” despite angry backlash over the soap’s dark stroylines. The show chief hit-back amid criticism for bleak stories involving a serial killer, a vicar hooked on heroin, male rape and a sex grooming gang. Ofcom is investigating whether ITV breached guidelines on the pre-watershed show after receiving […]
OUR country faces a very serious threat from extremists – bigoted individuals and groups who want to turn communities against each other for political, religious or ideological causes. Right now they are pushing out poisonous propaganda, exploiting grievances, provoking discrimination and sowing the seeds of violence. Look at the case of London mosque “teacher” Umar […]
FIRE doors in the Grenfell Tower were only capable of holding flames back for HALF the time they were meant to, investigators confirmed yesterday. The shocking revelations revealed the glazed fire doors could only withstand a blaze for 15 minutes – not the 30 minutes advertised – in another damning blow to residents. The Met […]
The heat is on FOR years The Sun warned Labour, coalition and Tory Governments of the folly of leaving our energy supply at the mercy of flaky foreign powers. For years we said fracking had the potential to supply cheap British gas for decades. Those Governments did next to nothing – merely watched our self-sufficiency […]
BROKE Northamptonshire County Council should be scrapped and replaced by two new unitary bodies, a damning government report has ruled. In a humiliating finding for the Tory-run town hall, which just 18-months ago was blowing cash teaching people how to wear a scarf, the report recommended that the Government intervene. Last month Northampton County Council […]
PHIL Neville has issued a second humiliating apology in two months as England women’s boss — this time for using his phone on the motorway. He was seen on Wednesday afternoon overtaking on the M6 with one hand on the wheel of his £70,000 Mercedes 4×4. A video of incident between junctions 16 and 17 […]
PRINCE Harry took Meghan Markle to a secret meeting with traumatised war veterans that he says “shocked us to our core”. The 33-year-old – a helicopter gunner in Afghanistan – told how over the years he has seen his own forces buddies “suffer, struggling to seek out the help they desperately need”. And he took […]
BRITAIN First leader Paul Golding has been brutally attacked in prison – less than a week after he was caged for abusing Muslims. Twisted Golding, 36, was left with a broken nose when he was set on by a pair of inmates at HMP Elmley on Wednesday morning. According to the Daily Mirror, cops are […]
IT was the long, heatwave summer of 1976, disco ruled the airwaves and my crippling fear of rollercoasters began. My eight-year-old self had felt alone and out of control as the theme park ride twisted, lurched and jerked, leaving my stomach churning with fear and nausea. It left me projectile-vomiting Cornish pasty and Cherryade and […]
The world is obsessed with fad diets and weight loss, yet few of us know how a pound of fat actually vanishes off the scales. The most common misconception by far, is that fat is converted to energy. The problem with this theory is that it violates the law of conservation of matter, which all […]
DJ Goldie made legal history yesterday by pleading guilty to a crime via FaceTime. The musician and film star failed to appear at his trial for assaulting a bouncer at last year’s Glastonbury Festival, as he was in Thailand for a detox programme. His solicitor read to the court an email sent by the Bond […]
THERESA May’s “green” energy dash was slammed yesterday as a report claimed wind turbines barely turned for TWO MONTHS last year. The GMB union said that on 65 separate days, turbines supplied less than 10 per cent of their potential for at least half a day – meaning the UK was reliant on gas, nuclear […]
TV’S Helen Skelton says she was groped live on air while pregnant. The Countryfile host said a man “grabbed me on the a**e” while she was interviewing him at a sporting event in 2014. Helen, 34, added: “I felt really awkward about it. I was pregnant as well. I didn’t know what to do. “It’s […]
THE Royal Navy should be bolstered to help protect British fishing waters from the “armada” of EU trawlers post-Brexit, ministers have been told. Tory Philip Hollobone said supporters of Remain and Leave were united in the need for the UK to leave the Common Fisheries Policy, which he labelled the “very worst aspect” of EU […]