1 hour ago AMANDA PLATELL: I'm so ashamed of what I said about you, Coleen... but hell will freeze over before I apologise to your once dear friend

Before Coleen Rooney entered the I'm A Celebrity jungle for a reported fee in excess of £1.5 million, I thought: 'Oh dear, here we go again.' Another WAG trying to coin it in.

Politics

5 hours ago Mikel Arteta returns from visit to owners to ignite Arsenal’s title challenge

‘Only one way to fulfil expectation – win big trophies’Saka and Rice back for Forest visit but Ben White outMikel Arteta returned from a visit to see Arsenal’s owners over the international break determined to turn up the temperature and ignite his side’s stuttering title challenge.The head coach was in an animated mood as he warmed up for a crucial run of fixtures, with the emphasis on playing with fire in the belly in Saturday afternoon’s home game against Nottingham Forest. Continue reading...

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6 hours ago Officer kills pet dog mistaken for a coyote in Massachusetts town. The owner says it was unnecessary

A animal control officer shot and killed a pet dog in a Massachusetts town after mistaking it for a coyote in an incident local police are describing as a sad mix-up

Events

6 hours ago Scots council spends whopping £3.4million to exhume bodies from flooded graves

South Ayrshire Council have confirmed the huge costs they incurred whilst dealing with a major crisis at burial grounds in Ayrshire.

Economics

7 hours ago Colorado funeral home owners plead guilty to 191 counts of corpse abuse

Jon and Carie Hallford are accused of piling bodies in a room-temperature building and giving out fake ashesThe owners of a Colorado funeral home accused of piling 190 bodies inside a room-temperature building and giving the grieving relatives fake ashes pleaded guilty on Friday to corpse abuse as aggrieved families looked on in court.Jon and Carie Hallford, who own the Return to Nature Funeral Home, began storing bodies in a decrepit building near Colorado Springs as far back as 2019 and gave families dry concrete in place of cremated remains, according to the charges. The grim discovery last year upended families’ grieving processes. Continue reading...

Events

8 hours ago Leaseholders will have to wait for reform as law delayed because of ‘flawed’ Tory version

The “flawed” legislation was written in the runup to the last election and would have excluded tens of thousands of flat owners in shared ownership schemes

Politics

8 hours ago Six people are dead after a suspected mass methanol poisoning at a backpacker party town. What went wrong in Laos?

As authorities detain a hostel owner in Vang Vieng, expert says the recent deaths are just the ‘tip of the iceberg’Vang Vieng is an unlikely party hub.Surrounded by striking limestone mountains and caves in central Laos, it morphed from a small farming town to a hedonistic party hub in the early 2000s. Enticed by boozy tubing experiences, throngs of twentysomething backpackers cemented its spot on south-east Asia’s famed backpacker trail. Continue reading...

Events

9 hours ago Little Hulton dead baby: Clue could help uncover identity of baby found in snowy field

The tragic discovery of the 'young baby', referred to as Baby A by officers, was made at the entrance to Ashtons Field, near a lay-by on Cleggs Lane in Little Hulton, just before 12.30pm on Wednesday

Events

9 hours ago Young Wrexham fan battling cancer receives surprise call from Rob McElhenney after player visit

Archie White got to speak to Wrexham co-owner Rob McElhenney during an unexpected visit from striker Ollie Palmer

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