After Owen Paterson’s suspension was blocked by Tory MPs, the House of Commons’ standards watchdog is in chaos. This raises serious questions about its future. Yesterday afternoon, the Commons voted…
A new study shows that a creepy parasitic fungus transforms necrophiles into ‘zombies’ by emitting a powerful chemical. Researchers in Denmark discovered that the Entomophthora species of fungus, Entomophthora mucae,…
Father-of-five army veteran, 52, is killed on his motorbike in a crash involving a £29,000 Mercedes motorist, who is arrested at the scene on suspicion of causing death by dangerous…
Boris Johnson’s extraordinary decision to intervene in Parliament’s anticorruption system and attack a standards watchdog that had previously been targeted by him for his lavish lifestyle has caused outrage. Kathryn…
The October sales of new cars fell to their lowest level since 1991. Registrations were down by a quarter in October, primarily due to a lack of semiconductor chips that…
A police officer has been jailed for defrauding his force out of £150,000 – after an app on his mobile phone showed he had been taking 10,000 steps a day…
Is this the largest potato ever? 17½lb mega-spud is grown in New Zealand (and owners say they will turn it into VODKA instead of making monster mash) Monster spud has…
A couple whose home had been destroyed by floods twice in the past 15 months is now planning to remove it and move it 100 yards up to their garden…
A woman who became ‘very unwell’ with salmonella after eating five bags of pork scratchings has launched legal action to see if the illness triggered her subsequent heart failure. After…
James Middleton, Kate Middleton’s brother, has shared a cute dog selfie after taking an unintentional post-wedding Instagram break to ‘enjoy these first few months with my new wife’ James, the…
