49 h. ago Four injured after drunk clubber mounts pavement and ploughs into pedestrians

Christopher Parry was more than three times over the drink driving limit when he struck pedestrians with his car and he has now been jailed

Events

3 d. ago School bus driver twice over limit as police video shames booziest drink

Bodycam footage shows the most brazen drink drivers being arrested in Durham, England, as part of a police campaign to highlight the dangers of driving under the influence

Events

3 d. ago Heathrow Airport to hit drivers dropping off loved ones with an £80 fine 'if you stay for 11 minutes'

The change comes alongside an inflation-busting rise in the drop-off fee, jumping from £6 to £7, and marks the first time Britain's busiest airport has enforced a time limit on farewells.

Society

4 d. ago Are these Britain's most shameless drunk drivers? Bodycam footage shows the jaw

The drivers, recorded through police bodycam footage, all saw roadside alcohol readings ranging from the 50s to 177 micrograms per 100ml - five times the legal limit of 35.

Culture

4 d. ago In the pink? Cricket bosses and players still not seeing benefit of day

The Ashes pink-ball Test at the Gabba may once again leave many in the sport wondering of the format has a futureIn October 2012 the International Cricket Council formally green-lit the idea of day-night Tests, offering a new, potentially lucrative spin on the oldest format. “This is all about new audiences and doing all we could to make the game more accessible at every level,” said the ECB’s then chief executive, Tom Harrison, when he announced England’s first pink-ball game a few years later. James Sutherland, Cricket Australia’s chief executive, welcomed the change from a status quo in which “Test cricket is played at times when most people are at work or school. We limit ourselves by staging cricket’s premium format at times when fans often cannot watch.”But since the day that decision was made just 24 of 554 Tests have been day-night games. Outside Australia, their most enthusiastic adopters, there have only been 11, out of a possible 486. Instead of turning on a new demograph...

Sport

4 d. ago Ban for driver who was caught behind the wheel 16 times over the cocaine limit

A sheriff told him the reading was “very, very high” and it was lucky for him that this was just over 10 years after his first conviction.

Events

5 d. ago Teacher was 'glassy eyed and slurring' when police stopped him driving home from Christmas party

Matthew Paul Porch was nearly three times over the legal limit when police stopped him after they saw him swerving his car and nearly hitting a kerb

Society

6 d. ago Moment drunk driver three times the limit crashes his van into a house, narrowly missing three children

Mike Turner drove his van through Gloucester despite being three times the drink-drive limit, before hitting and destroying a home with a family inside.

Events

7 d. ago South Londoners jailed this month including paedo priest and killer drink driver

South Londoners jailed this month including paedo priest and killer drink driver  News Shopper

Events

8 d. ago Range Rover driver caught downing 11 pints on pub crawl with friends before killing teenage biker in crash

A Range Rover driver was caught downing 11 pints on a pub crawl with friends, before getting behind the wheel of the car and killing a teenager in a crash.

Events

8 d. ago Drink driver ploughed into a caravan, then had to be pulled out of her BMW

Heather Allmond has been banned from driving for a year

Transport

1 week ago The Beatles Anthology: the flammed together ‘new episode’ feels totally pointless

The TV equivalent of raiding a bare cupboard, the supposed extra hour here is cobbled together from previous DVD extras – but you can’t miss the tension between Harrison and McCartneyThere’s no doubt that the arrival of The Beatles Anthology in 1995 was a big deal. The TV series was broadcast at prime time on both sides of the Atlantic, and ABC in the US even changed its name to ABeatlesC in its honour. The three accompanying albums (the first time the Beatles had allowed outtakes from their recording sessions to be officially released) sold in their millions. Its success helped kickstart the latterday Beatles industry, a steady stream of officially sanctioned documentaries, reissues, remixes, compilations and expanded editions, predicated on two ideas: that the Beatles’ archive contains fathomless bounty; and that the band’s story is so rich there’s no limit to the number of times it can fruitfully be retold in fresh light.For a while, those ideas seemed to hold true, but recently,...

Politics

1 week ago Drug dealer 'kills gran, daughter, and grandkids' after posting 7am drunk pic

Axel Adrián Araneda allegedly hit the family's Ford EcoSport at over 100mph while driving drunk, a court heard. All four inside the car were killed instantly or shortly afterwards

Events

2 w. ago Reeves to launch crackdown on benefit fraud alongside lifting two

Move aims to bring in extra £1.2bn of savings as government seeks to head off criticism over welfare spendingYou be the chancellor: play our budget gameRachel Reeves will launch a fresh crackdown on benefit fraud at the same time as lifting the two-child limit for universal credit at a cost of £3bn, as ministers seek to head off criticism over rising welfare spending in the budget.The chancellor has made the decision to scrap the two-child limit in full, a move that will be welcomed by Labour MPs who have long highlighted its effect on increasing child poverty.Freezing income tax thresholds for an extra two years to 2030, bringing more people into higher tax bands as wages rise.Making salary sacrifice schemes less generous, including those for pension contributions.A pay-per-mile scheme on electric cars to help fill the tax gap from petrol duty as more people opt for green vehicles.Bringing in higher tax on the most expensive properties, including a surcharge on the highest-value ho...

Politics

2 w. ago Amazing pictures as woman 3 times over limit crashes Range Rover into bushes

A drunk driver will be off the road for 30 months after taking her Range Roader spectacularly off the road into bushes while three times over the alcohol limit, she was also hit with a strict curfew

Events

2 w. ago Drunk driver crashes Range Rover into bushes after careering off road

Andrea Williams, 53, was more than three times the legal limit after the crash on September 9 this year.

Transport

2 w. ago Football manager Alan Pardew, 64, is handed driving ban after speeding in his £80,000 Porsche

The 64-year-old has apologised and issued a warning to drivers after being caught speeding four times, three of which were going over a 20mph limit.

Economics

3 w. ago Can methane cuts pull us back from the brink of climate breakdown?

With temperatures breaching the Paris limit, experts say tackling the powerful gas could buy crucial time as the clean-energy shift stallsCop30: click here for full Guardian coverage of the climate talks in BrazilFor two years, global temperatures have exceeded the 1.5C heating limit laid out in the Paris climate agreement. This overshooting will have “devastating consequences”, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, has warned.The biggest worry for scientists is that further heating could trigger irreversible tipping points, such as the widespread drying out and dying off of the Amazon, or the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, beyond which climate breakdown could spiral out of control. Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago Drink driver found four times over the limit has sentencing delayed after turning up to court drunk

Neil Horner, 49, was due to be sentenced at the Isle of Wight Magistrates' Court for getting behind the wheel while nearly four times the drink drive limit - but it was delayed after he turned up intoxicated.

Events

3 w. ago United Airlines stewardess ten times the alcohol limit after downing mini bottles of vodka on flight to Heathrow

The air stewardess was said to be going through a hard time

Society