A double first in double standards: Cambridge academics want to tear down a memorial to a benefactor who made a tiny portion of his money from investments in slavery. Yet it’s pocketed a fortune from China which enslaves thousands of Uighur Muslims today A short bicycle ride from the River Cam, where tourists go punting […]

A WOMAN sent her ex photos of herself bound and gagged at gunpoint in a fake kidnapping plot. Leah Jumeaux, 20, demanded a ransom of £2,000 from her boyfriend in exchange for her own safe return in October 2020. She appeared at Preston Crown Court on Friday charged with blackmail and fraud by false representation. […]

THE BBC has been forced to apologise today after using Remembrance Day footage of Boris Johnson from three years ago. The Beeb blundered by showing film of the PM holding a wreath at the Cenotaph in London in 2016 on a broadcast about yesterday's ceremony. A spokesman blamed a "production mistake" for the error on […]

A convicted murderer serving life in prison told his wife she was 'the weakest link – goodbye' before killing her for sleeping with another man. Richard Cooper, 60, was jailed in 2002 for the 'wicked' crime which a court at the time heard he committed out of jealousy. The former-rail guard from Kent flew into […]

Walking through Kyiv in recent days, it has been easy to forget the political storm clouds brewing overhead. In the trendy Podil district, the Christmas markets have only just been squared away (winter holidays are celebrated well into January) and the festive mood remains palpable. Cafes were bustling with impossibly chic hipsters and crowds formed […]

A FORMER Royal police officer has claimed he would have knocked Prince Andrew out if he'd asked him to pick up his golf balls. Paul Page, who served the Royal Family for six years as an armed protection officer at Buckingham Palace, described the Duke of York as a "f***ing a***hole and a bully". Last […]

THE West must "prepare for the worst" as conflict with Russia looms, the Defence Secretary gravely warned tonight. Russia has told the US to back off over mounting tensions with Ukraine or "endanger not only its own security but that of Europe" as World War Three fears mount. And in his darkest intervention yet as […]

MORE than a fifth of parents would rather their child earned a decent wage as an adult than grew up to be kind or honest, research has revealed. A new study of parents in the UK found one in 20 want success for their children above happiness. And one sixth of mums and dads already […]

Charlotte Bellis has confirmed she will return to New Zealand at the beginning of March to give birth to her baby girl, after accepting an emergency spot in MIQ. Bellis – who has been stranded and pregnant in Afghanistan – was offered an MIQ voucher earlier today. Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson earlier this afternoon […]

BRIAN Laundrie used to walk around town barefoot and often visited the local Dunkin’ Donuts with no shoes, a neighbor has said. The neighbor, who asked to remain anonymous, told The Sun that they "always thought it was odd" that Brian never wore shoes as he strolled around North Port, Florida. "Brian always had no […]