Inspector Ian Hanson, chairman of the Greater Manchester branch of the Police Federation, has claimed police resources were so stretched that officers were not making arrests ‘out of necessity’.

The man, named locally as 27-year-old Daniel Bagnall, was found at a house in Ketley in Telford, Shropshire on New Year’s Day. His death may be linked to three others in Suffolk.

Nikki Sweetman’s handbag was stolen after she got a cab from a Christmas party. A week after her phone was stolen, selfies of a brunette woman (pictured) appeared on her photo stream.

Tanis Bhandari was walking home from the Kings Arms in Tamerton Foliot, Plymouth, when he was attacked alongside a group of ‘innocent’ friends. The 27-year-old later died in hospital.

The deaths of the newborns has thrown the spotlight back on Basildon Hospital, Essex, which has been criticised in the past for the standard of it care and state of its finances

Who thought wriggling around like a fish on the floor could ever be this mesmerising?  When the camera panned around during this wedding, viewers were not expecting to see a kid writhing around like he’d eaten something rotten. Thankfully Harlan didn’t have a killer stomach ache. He was actually showing off his best dance moves at […]

Calvin Lock, 13, from Littleport, Cambridgeshire, has found out he is now going blind in both eyes, after suffering a horrific reaction to ibuprofen in 2012.

David Cameron was criticised last night after launching the Tory election campaign with a controversial poster that claimed Britain’s huge budget deficit had been ‘halved’.

The case is connected to allegations against Jeffrey Epstein, who has been convicted of soliciting sex with an underage girl. Prince Andrew denies any impropriety.

Fire crews were forced to attend to set the toddler’s mum free (Picture: Wikicommons) As far as tales of troublesome tots go, this one is up there with the best. A mother in Devon had to be rescued by fire crews after being locked in a cupboard by her one-year-old daughter. Emergency services were called […]

Phil Coby swears it’s Jesus Christ (Picture: SWNS) If Jesus Christ was proven to be real it would rock the world – so what better way for him to send a message than appearing as, you guessed it, a rock. Phil Coby, 54, from West Kilbride in Ayrshire, Scotland, claimed to have pulled a stone […]

Mike Waterton, 43, of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, posted a series of photos on his website appearing to show him in Cancun, Mexico, less than a week after his temping agency was wound up

In a letter to Tony Blair, Neal Lawson said the record election victories won by New Labour were ‘too big’ and had forced the party to pander to the middle classes while in power.