4 h. ago Young couple stranded in Spain after crooks rob passport and jewellery in £60k car heist

Anna Higginbottom and Peter Lesisz were robbed of around £60,000 as they prepared to return home to Scotland.

Economics

11 h. ago Guatemalan villagers lynch 5 men accused of robbing homes after earthquakes

Residents of a rural Guatemalan community have lynched five men accused of robbing homes damaged by recent earthquakes

Events

23 h. ago High profile luxury crimes such as the mugging of Jenson Button has London's super

Rocked by a series of high-profile robberies, London’s one per cent are turning their homes into fortresses — and they’re too petrified to leave them

Events

40 h. ago Amazon's £240 Alexa robot vacuum reduced to under £90 picks up a 'surprising' amount of dirt

"I love this robot. It’s so good for homes with small kids that’s drop crumbs everywhere and you’re sick of the daily clean that never ends!"

Economics

5 d. ago Butler by Salena Zito review – how Trump won America’s heartland

From the site of the failed assassination comes a sharp-eyed account of Trump’s political gains – and Democrats’ failings The Democrats’ famed blue wall is more the stuff of nostalgia than reality. On election day 2024, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin voted for Donald Trump for the second time in three elections. Barack Obama’s upstairs-downstairs coalition lies in ruins, as Democrats struggle to connect with working-class voters across racial and ethnic lines.Last November, Trump came within just three points of winning a majority of Latino voters. Such Americans walked away from their presumed political home – in droves. A Trump endorsement by Roberto Clemente Jr, son of the late Pittsburgh Pirates baseball star, was a harbinger. Likewise, Trump posted double-digit gains among Catholics and Jews, once core constituencies in the Democratic party of FDR.Butler is published in the US by Hachette Continue reading...

Politics

6 d. ago London leaver: 'It's easy to almost forget there's life outside the M25'

On Friday evenings Tori Halman and her boyfriend Rob Overall would be cosy at home, cooking pasta and enjoying a glass of wine, while listening to the shrieks and shouts of twentysomething revellers beginning their big nights out.

Politics

1 week ago Homes Under The Hammer star Martin Roberts forced to deny he wants to turn renovated pub into a lap

Homes Under The Hammer presenter Martin Roberts has been forced to deny he is turning the dilapidated Hendrewen Hotel in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales into a lap dancing club.

Politics

1 week ago Inside Martin Roberts' huge Welsh pub renovation project as he addresses lap dancing club rumours

Exclusive access to the Homes Under The Hammer presenter's Welsh renovation and what's been holding up the project

Culture

2 w. ago LIVE FOREVER by John Robb: How a hammer to the head and Like a Virgin kicked off Liam Gallagher's career

We all know about their infamous feuds with Blur, the band and between themselves. But in his new book, John Robb lifts the lid on what it is really like being a Gallagher.

Events

2 w. ago Watchdog warning over spray foam insulation as show celebrates 40th year

The programme has been fronted by various presenters since it first aired on BBC One in 1985, perhaps most memorably by Anne Robinson.

Events

2 w. ago Homes Under the Hammer's Martin Roberts 'failed on every level' amid setbacks

Homes Under The Hammer presenter Martin Roberts has been working to transform a rural Welsh pub into a tourist destination, but the building is still in dire need of renovation

Events

2 w. ago Homes Under the Hammer star admits 'I have failed' in sad announcement

Homes Under the Hammer star Martin Roberts has been facing huge setbacks on his new project.

Events

2 w. ago Martin Roberts admits 'I have failed on every level' as pub dealt crushing blows

Homes Under the Hammer star Martin Roberts is attempting to transform a Welsh pub into a major tourist attraction

Economics

2 w. ago Homes Under The Hammer's Martin Roberts 'failed on every level' with £500K pub makeover

Martin Roberts has admitted he drastically underestimated the time and cost of his latest project, with his deadline of two years up and half a million spent on a derelict pub

Economics

2 w. ago Homes Under The Hammer star Martin Roberts, 61, admits he's 'failed on every level' on major refurbishment project

The Homes Under The Hammer presenter, 61, purchased the Hendrewen Hotel in Blaencwm, Rhondda, in 2023 and planned to inject £500,000 to give the boozer a complete makeover.

Events

3 w. ago A woman tried to call her mom in Iran. A robotic voice answered the phone

Some Iranians living abroad are trying to call their families back home, only to have a robotic voice answer

Technology

3 w. ago Grandma facing eviction after her son, who took his own life after robbing a bank, faked the deed to her home

Barbara Arnold, 77, of Texas, discovered her son allegedly forged her name on the deed of her longtime home after he died by suicide.

Events

3 w. ago Berkeley shares drop amid profit fall and boardroom reshuffle

Long standing CEO Rob Perrins will step up to become executive chair in the Autumn

Politics

3 w. ago Homebuilders Berkeley Group announce ‘Rob the Builder’ as new executive chair to lead 10

Group reported pre-tax profits of more than £500m

Society

3 w. ago People horrified after disabled woman claims NHS sent her to be weighed at a pet shop

Shropshire-based Sarah Rennie, who documents her life as a 'proud' disabled person, was told to visit Pets at Home to be weighed by The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital.

Politics