THE most famous face in Downing Street, who now has Boris Johnson as his new flatmate, is Larry the Cat. But what is the Whitehall moggy’s role? We take a look at the feline, ahead of International Cat Day on August 8, who has seen off two Prime Ministers. Who is Larry the Cat and […]
INTER MILAN have upped their bid for Manchester United outcast Romelu Lukaku to £75million – and will pay it all in full. Old Trafford chiefs were keen to do a deal for the striker so they can spend the money before Thursday’s deadline. Meanwhile, United have fined the Belgium striker for attending a training session […]
DEAR DEIDRE: I CHEATED on my girlfriend with a customer when I went to fix a leaking pipe and she won’t forgive me. We’ve been together for eight years and have a five-year-old son together. I’m 33 and my girlfriend is 31. We’ve been having a few problems, nothing major but sometimes I get the […]
PILOTS at Ryanair are to stage a series of strikes in a dispute over pay and conditions, their union has said. Strikes will be held from 00.01am on August 22 until 11.59pm on August 23 and from 00.01am on September 2 until 11.59pm on September 4. Members of the British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) voted […]
DEAR DEIDRE: I CANNOT keep up with my partner’s appetite for sex. If he had his way we would be making love all the time. I keep wondering whether he is a sex addict. We’ve been together for 15 years. I’m 39 and he is 41. He wasn’t as bad in the beginning. We’ve talked […]
DEAR DEIDRE: MY boyfriend falls asleep on the sofa as soon as he comes home from work. He gets verbally aggressive and turns nasty when I try to wake him up. He refuses to go to the bedroom, saying he “doesn’t want to go to sleep yet”. But then he falls asleep mid-sentence. I am […]
DEAR DEIDRE: AN American guy I met online a year ago has booked flights and accommodation and we’re going to meet in London. We are going to spend a few days getting to know one another then go back to my home town for a few days. Basically it is a week with a near-stranger. […]
COLEEEN Rooney has shared a cute picture of Wayne reuniting with their son Kit. The 33-year-old posted the pic as Wayne’s move back to the UK is announced. She captioned the snap with two love heart emojis – and fans loved what they saw. One wrote: “Happy that you have Wayne and all the boys […]
DEAR DEIDRE: I FANTASISE about what life could be like with my personal trainer even though I’m happily married. I’m a 33-year-old guy. I wanted to get fit for a school reunion later this year so hired a personal trainer. I didn’t know at the time but he is gay. He’s 26. We chatted during […]
THE body of Dr Natalie Christopher was discovered today after she went missing on Monday in the Greek island of Ikaria. She had gone out for a jog but never returned, here is what we know so far. Who was Dr Natalie Christopher? The 34-year-old was an astrophysicist from London and lived in Nicosia, Cyprus, […]
LOVE Island fans are convinced that Anna Vakili has a “suspicious white powder” on her table during a night out – but it is just ash from a shisha pipe. The 28-year-old pharmacist came under fire when followers spotted the substance in her latest Instagram post. In the photo, Anna is posing alongside her lookalike […]
A MUM whose toddler is battling stage-four cancer was horrified to receive a vile note from a neighbour telling her to tidy her ‘messy’ garden. Randa Ragland’s world was turned upside down when her three-year-old son, Jaxen, was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma stage 4 cancer. Just days before his third birthday, doctors had delivered the devastating […]
SEVERE turbulence that’s “invisible to pilots” will be three times as common in the near future, scientists have warned. This could put passengers at risk of injury – and even make some flights take longer. This “invisible turbulence” is caused by a phenomenon called wind shear. Wind shear is when the speed of the wind […]
FORMER X Factor star Danny Tetley has been arrested for soliciting sexual images of a child through a social media platform. The singer voluntarily turned himself in to police in Bradford after they called his mum’s house trying to track him down – and was then arrested for the serious sex offence. Since the arrest […]
THOUSANDS of British Airways passengers face a wait of up to a week before they can book replacement flights after an IT glitch hit the airline. Around 300 flights were affected today with the plans of 15,000 holidaymakers thrown into chaos by the systems failure, which has now been fixed. British Airways said it was […]
PENSIONERS are being urged to check if they’ve got a missing state pension after one retiree found he had a pot worth a whopping £132,800. Currently, pensions of up to £168.60 a week are paid by the state to men born on or after April 6 1951 and to women born on or after April […]
EASTENDERS’ Max Branning has so many notches on his bedpost there can’t be much bedpost left after he slept his way round Albert Square. So, in tribute to Walford’s legendary swordsman, we figured out the ginger Lothario’s body count – and it’s so high he could be one of the Love Island lads. Max has […]
IF you want to wish upon a shooting star then this is the month to do it as the Perseid meteor shower will be around for most of August but will be most visible next week. The evening of August 12 should be your best time to spot the meteors at their brightest as this […]
FURIOUS families have branded £70-a-ticket Big Jam Sandwich kids festival as “shambolic,” saying the queues for the event were “visible from space”. The event, aimed at kids aged one to 11, drew complaints for extra charges and lengthy queues on Sunday. Organisers Jam Sandwich Ltd defended the event but accepted there were “teething problems”. The […]
MANCHESTER UNITED are still desperate to get their transfer business done with only days remaining before the close of the summer transfer window. Romelu Lukaku appears set for the exit and Christian Eriksen will not be heading north from Tottenham – while fans have come out claiming they want Wilfried Zaha back at the club […]
JADE Goody was just 27 when she died of cervical cancer – just seven months after being diagnosed. The mum-of-two feared something wasn’t right for four years but by the time doctors realised it was too late. It had spread to the outside of her uterus and reduced her chances of survival from 50 per […]
THE bitter trade war between the US and China could spark a Lehman Brothers-style “earthquake” that triggered the 2008 credit crunch as stock markets continued to tumble, a financial analyst has warned. Macro and quantitative strategist Masanari Takada at investment bank Nomura issued the warning about a financial collapse after the Dow Jones plummeted 767 […]
THIS is the heart stopping moment a drowning boy was saved by his dad in a swimming pool – just before he lost consciousness. The four-year-old was crouching beside the swimming pool in the city of Maa’anshan, eastern China, when he toppled over and fell in. Other swimmers can be seen walking up and down […]
A ROYAL avy patrol ship has been deployed to intercept and shadow a Russian ship through the English Channel. Portsmouth-based HMS Forth had just returned to UK waters from her first foreign port visit when it was scrambled to monitor the Russian patrol ship Vasily Bykov. A Navy spokesman said: “Forth had departed Gibraltar on […]
A WOMAN has revealed how a “wicked” carer sent her twisted love letters and raped in her motels when she was just 11 after preying on her at a children’s home. Evil Paul Setchfield lavished gifts on terrified Roxanne and told her he wanted to marry her in a sickening five year campaign of abuse. […]