BORIS Johnson today begins a do-or-die week for his premiership as the imminent Partygate probe is poised to decide his fate. The PM is also fighting an Islamophobia row, claims of government blackmail and fury at looming tax rises as the cost of living bites. Despite delivering Brexit and the vaccine rollout, the perfect storm […]

THE massive snowstorm currently pounding large parts of the US has killed at least one person and hundreds of car accidents have been reported. Over 60million people are under winter weather alerts as states are deluged by record levels of snow. A driver died at about 7.30am when a car went off Route 140 in […]

APPLE has launched a semi-secret employment programme called Orchard and people are comparing it to a cult recruitment scheme. The tech giant posted a webpage advertising Orchard, but quickly withdrew it after social media lit up with jokes about the strange scheme. On Twitter, one man wrote: "This idea is great, but holy s*** is this page […]

A GIRL of 13 almost died after medics failed to diagnose a brain tumour and even suggested she was faking symptoms. A GP, opticians and hospital docs all missed the growth which had taken over half of Lita Ruskin’s brain. One medic said she might be feigning sickness so she could wear glasses like her […]

NO, I haven’t seen the new Bond film yet. I’m a huge 007 fan and am very much looking forward to it, but these days there just isn’t the time because there are so many other things to watch on TV. Every single time I go to the pub, someone tells me about a great […]

TWO people and a dog have been found dead in a house after a kitchen fire today. Cops were sent to the home after concerns were raised for two people living in a North Ormesby terraced house. People living nearby also smelt smoke and called fire crews to the Teesside home, where the bodies were […]

A MONKEY gave hapless police the slip for more than an hour as it ran across a motorway in Sao Paulo. Traffic was brought to a standstill as the officers half-heartedly wandered around after the mammal. The brown Howler monkey gave Brazilian traffic cops the run around for over an hour along the Imigrantes highway […]

THIS is the terrifying moment a mum-of-two was swept away after leaping into a frozen river in Russia – as her kids watched in horror. The woman, 40, jumped into the Oredezh River to mark the Orthodox Epiphany in the village of Vyra, near to St Petersburg, on Wednesday. But she was quickly dragged under the […]

Could ‘Boris Bridge’ be built in future? Expert who shot down PM’s dream of link between Northern Ireland and Scotland over £335billion cost says self-driving cars and new train tech could make it possible Sir Peter Hendy said a link between Ulster and Britain could be possible in future  Network Rail chairman said ‘autonomous vehicles’ […]

POLICE tried to find a Brit weeks before he was shot dead after taking four people hostage at a Texan synagogue. Two officers visited a rented flat where a brother of Malik Faisal Akram previously lived. But they were told Akram was not there and that his brother had moved to Pakistan in March 2020’s […]