A huge police cordon has been erected after a woman died following a stabbing in Tameside. Police were called to reports of a stabbing in the Droylsden area and are reportedly still at the scene. The stabbing is understood to have allegedly occurred on Edge Lane, near the bridge. Reports from the scene indicate there […]

A ‘guilt-stricken’ mum admits she and her partner ‘blame themselves’ after they fell asleep with their baby lying between them – leaving the suffocated child possibly blind and unable to move. Breanna Brown, 22, was woken by cries from baby Karvion Brown on May 3 so took her son out of the crib in her […]

Islamic State fanatic Matthew King, 19, has appeared at the Old Bailey to be sentenced for plotting a terror attack on British police officers or soldiers. King, from Wickford in Essex, has previously pleaded guilty to preparation of terrorist acts between December 22 2021 and May 17 2022. In mitigation, his barrister Hossein Zahir KC […]

Footage shows Bournemouth ferry on day of incident A father who was on a pleasure cruise as two children died at Bournemouth beach on Wednesday has said lifeguards were warnign people not to get too close to the pier before the tragedy occurred. Along with dozens of others, Luke Owen was on the Dorset Belle […]

Prince William appeared to get restless in front of the newly married Crown Prince of Jordan and his wife after Kate became engrossed in conversation. The Prince and Princess of Wales were seen at the wedding of Hussein bin Abdullah, the 28-year-old heir to the Jordanian throne, and Saudi Arabian architect Rajwa Al Saif, 29, […]

Amina Tsoi’s twin babies are healthy girls. They squabble, as siblings do, and they both have a curious appetite for cheese, “like little mice,” their mother says. But they are small for 1-year-olds, a legacy of their premature birth during the first weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. For seven months, Ms. Tsoi had enjoyed […]

All aboard the Mars Express for a ‘live stream’ of the Red Planet. Today, at 5pm BST, the European Space Agency (ESA) will be sharing images sent directly from Mars by its ‘long-lived but still highly productive’ Martian orbiter. With a lag time of around only 18 minutes, viewers will witness the closest thing to […]

A sightseeing boat, the Dorset Belle, had been impounded at Poole Harbour by police following the deaths of two youngsters of a Bournemouth beach this week. A boy, 17, from Southampton and a girl, 12, from Buckinghamshire, died after getting into difficulty in the water at the Dorset resort on Wednesday. Another eight people were […]

An animal charity says it is struggling to explain why it has failed to find a home for a “super friendly” dog it describes as “near to the perfect” pet. The charity says that it cannot wait to see “this special girl all tucked up on her very own sofa in her very own home” […]

Listening to the wail of air-raid sirens, a mother and her 9-year-old daughter raced through the Ukrainian capital’s early morning darkness on Thursday to a clinic, where a bomb shelter promised escape from another Russian missile barrage. But the clinic was locked, the authorities said. After explosions roared, the woman and her daughter were found […]