Month: September 2024

Rachel Reeves has ignored calls to reverse her decision to cut winter fuel payments, amid warnings pensioners are “frightened” about how they will keep warm. The Chancellor defended the move as she repeatedly told MPs that increases to the basic state pension mean that people will be “£900 better off” than a year ago, adding the Labour Government is committed to increasing it further in the coming years. But she […]

A “shadow” version of a new public sector body to oversee Britain’s railways has been launched by Transport Secretary Louise Haigh. The Cabinet minister said establishing Shadow Great British Railways (Shadow GBR) will pave the way for the creation of an organisation to manage rail infrastructure and train operation. This is expected to start industry collaboration ahead of the formation of GBR, which will require legislation. The announcement was made […]

Five children, including three aged 12, have been arrested on suspicion of murder after an 80-year-old man died following a “serious” assault in a park. Leicestershire Police have launched a murder investigation after the elderly man died in hospital from injuries sustained in Franklin Park in Braunstone Town, Leicestershire, on Sunday evening at around 6.30pm. Officers have arrested five people, a boy and a girl aged 14 and one boy and two […]

TV show guest Steve Dymond spoke of Jeremy Kyle egging on the audience to “boo him” and was “very upset” after the show’s recording, his son told an inquest into his death. Mr Dymond, from Portsmouth, Hampshire, is suspected to have taken his own life seven days after filming for the Jeremy Kyle Show in May 2019. He had taken a lie detector test for the ITV show after being […]

Britain is in line for nine new offshore wind farms after the Government’s latest renewables auction, but campaigners fear it may still fall short of clean power targets. The nine new projects compare to none last year, and include what will be Europe’s largest and second largest wind farm projects – Hornsea 3 and Hornsea 4 off the Yorkshire coast. They are part of a new wave of green power […]

A bereaved mother has been spreading smiles across the country by giving over 700 Lego sets to people with cancer following the death of her son from complications linked with a brain tumour. Jane Carpenter’s son James was diagnosed with a glioma, a type of primary tumour that starts in the glial cells of the brain or spinal cord, in 2013 and died on September 2 2022, at the age […]

The boy who died in Oldbury, near Birmingham, has been named as Jahziah Coke West Midlands Police have charged two teenage boys with the murder of 13-year-old Jahziah Coke. Jahziah died at his home in Oldbury, near Birmingham, last Thursday despite the efforts of paramedics to save him. A statement confirming charges have been brought against two teenage boys also confirmed that a man aged in his forties has been […]

Around 78,000 people had phones or bags snatched in the year to March 2024 The Government has pledged to crack down on phone thefts after the number of incidents soared by more than 150% last year. An estimated 78,000 people had phones or bags snatched from them on British streets in year to March 2024, according to data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales. This represented a 153% rise when compared to the […]

A plaque paying tribute to writer, actor and musician Benjamin Zephaniah has been unveiled by Brunel University London. The dub poet, who appeared in hit BBC show Peaky Blinders as Jeremiah Jesus, died at the age of 65 in December 2023, shortly after being diagnosed with a brain tumour. The newly unveiled plaque has been placed in the university’s redeveloped outdoor community space, the Quad, now renamed Benjamin Zephaniah Square. At the unveiling, […]