A teenage boy has been jailed for life for murdering his 16-year-old friend in a row over a Playstation. Conor Black (left) and Shane Boyd were said to be ‘good’ friends Shane Boyd, also 16, stabbed Conor Black to death outside a house party in August last year. Black was with a group of [...]
Gossip” that US top brass are unhappy with the performance of UK armed forces in Afghanistan has been dismissed by Defence Secretary John Hutton. British Army soldiers in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan A flurry of reports suggested that US military commanders were unimpressed by aspects of the British effort in the country. They allegedly singled [...]
Police are hunting for a murderer who went on the run after escaping from a secure mental hospital. Paul Caesar fled Springfield Hospital yesterday morning Paul Caesar was being held at Springfield Hospital in Tooting, south London, after being convicted of murder in 1996. Police described him as dangerous and urged members of the [...]
Jade Goody’s high-profile fight for life will inspire thousands of women across Britain to get screened for cervical cancer, one of the country’s leading charities has said. Jade is preparing to marry after finding out her cancer is terminal The 27-year-old reality TV star has been told by doctors that she has six weeks [...]
A Royal Navy nuclear submarine collided with a French one in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, it has been reported. HMS Vanguard, Royal Navy nuclear submarine The crash between HMS Vanguard and France’s Le Triomphant – both carrying atomic weapons – is believed to have occurred on February 3 or 4, The Sun [...]
Lloyds Banking Group sent the markets into a frenzy by issuing a shock warning that HBOS is likely to record a loss of as much as £11bn for 2008. Lloyds’ takeover of bank was rushed through to help stabilise banking system Lloyds shares went plummeting by 40% upon the news, which comes two weeks before [...]
Almost one in five car insurance claims is now fraudulent, Sky News has learnt, and the increase is being linked to the recession. Insurers predict that as the recession gets worse, so will fraud Absolute Fraud Management says the number of claims they investigated for the car insurance industry where fraud was detected rose from [...]
Tom Parmenter, North of England correspondent Up to 50,000 British teenagers are involved in gangs, according to a new report. Merseyside has a major problem with teenage gang violence Its authors, from the Centre for Social Justice, say it is time for a comprehensive approach to tackling the problem. Report author Simon Antrobus told Sky [...]
Murder detectives hunting a man dubbed the “Facebook fugitive” have recovered his car. George Appleton, seen in CCTV captured at his residence in Salford George Appleton, who is described as a serious threat to women, is wanted by police after the body of his ex-girlfriend Clare Wood, 36, was found badly burned in her Salford [...]
A policewoman has been charged with assisting an offender after the murder of teenage model Amy Leigh Barnes, Greater Manchester Police has said. Melda Wilks, 49, who been suspended from West Midlands Police, is due to appear at Bolton Magistrates’ Court later today. Amy, 19, died of knife wounds in a Bolton hospital on November [...]