36 h. ago Le Mans driver leaps out of car and punches and kicks rival's motor in extraordinary scenes

The Road to Le Mans Race 2 was marred by a violent outburst from one of the drivers, who leaped out of his car and attacked his rival on the first lap of the race after a collision

Transport

4 d. ago Moment man 'posing as an Uber driver to sexually assault vulnerable woman' is stopped by police who found 'rape kit' in his car

Graham Head, 66, of Pevensey, East Sussex, was pulled over and had his vehicle searched after the 25-year-old woman gave police part of a car numberplate.

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4 d. ago Man left fighting for life after crash as lorry driver arrested

The van driver was airlifted to hospital with potentially life-threatening injuries

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4 d. ago Good Samaritans and cops leap into action in dramatic rescue of woman from burning car in New York state

Good Samaritans and cops sprang into action in a dramatic rescue of a woman from her burning car in Chester, New York.

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4 d. ago Ukrainian held by Russia describes torture, sinister threats and Kafkaesque court process

Maksym Butkevych tells of pattern of beatings and threats of execution and sexual violence to extract ‘confession’The first moments in Russian captivity for Maksym Butkevych saw humiliations that would pale in comparison with what would soon follow.Taken prisoner in the early months of the war in Ukraine in 2022, Butkevych and his fellow soldiers – who had been lured into a trap on the eastern frontline – at first were punched and robbed. “There were a few kicks and punches,” recalls Butkevych, who had been a human rights defender and journalist before Russia’s invasion compelled him to volunteer as a soldier. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Killed by a driver who couldn't read top line of Specsavers eye test, 'this needs to stop'

Vernon Law visited the optician a month before the fatal collision in Whitworth

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5 d. ago Platense who? Club World Cup is another step on the road to a global super league | Jonathan Wilson

Fifa’s huge prize money risks making a handful of clubs almost infinitely wealthier than their domestic rivalsLast Sunday, in the northern Argentinian city of Santiago del Estero, Platense beat Huracán 1-0 to win Argentina’s Apertura, the decisive goal a beautiful dipping effort struck at the top of the bounce by Guido Mainero. It was the first title in the club’s 120‑year history and provoked scenes of extraordinary emotion.Platense are one of Argentina’s quirkier clubs. They are nicknamed the Squid because their original ground was built on a marsh and the story grew that they played better in wet conditions when, as the journalist Antonio Palacio Zino put it, “the boys moved like squid in their ink”. The boggy conditions are also supposedly why they wear brown after an early director thought it would help to hide mud stains; the real reason is probably that their first members agreed to wear the colours of a jockey who won a particular race. Continue reading...

Politics

7 d. ago Moment thug shows up at his ex's house to burn it down while she sleeps before killing her dog

Adrian West, 61, had subjected Louise Simpson, 53, to a campaign of violent attacks last year which included strangling, punching and kicking before she kicked him out of her house.

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9 d. ago Gunman's getaway driver jailed after shooter fired 11 times at home of rival 'gang leader' amid 'turf war'

A woman in the house had to 'take cover as the bullets were scattered throughout the downstairs lounge', police said

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1 week ago Driver flees and leaves passenger fighting for life after horror police pursuit crash

Emergency services raced to the horror collision on Drake Street

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1 week ago Dog walker Bhim Kohli's last words to daughter as he lay dying from teen's attack

Bhim Kohli, 80, was walking his dog when he was was racially abused, punched, kicked, and slapped in the face in an attack by a boy, 15, while his 13-year-old female friend filmed

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1 week ago Schoolboy, 15, who beat dog walker to death is jailed for just seven years: Pensioner, 80, was killed just metres from his home

Bhim Kohli, 80, was slapped in the face with a slider shoe and kicked and punched by the balaclava-clad male at a park near Leicester, while the female filmed and laughed.

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1 week ago Schoolboy, 15, who racially abused and killed dog walker metres from his home in 'wicked' attack is locked up for seven years

Bhim Kohli, 80, was slapped in the face with a slider shoe and kicked and punched by the balaclava-clad male at a park near Leicester, while the female filmed and laughed.

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1 week ago I thought it was being gay that made my life so difficult. Then, at 50, I got an eye

I spent far too many years lonely and angry, thanks to schoolmates who called me ‘weird’ and bosses who dismissed me as ‘hysterical’. But was it my sexuality that put their backs up – or the autism I am still coming to terms with?My earliest memory is of feeling different. I’m gay, and grew up in the 1980s, in a tough, working-class town in the north of England at the height of the Aids crisis. My gayness was obvious in the way I walked and talked. I was bullied at school, called a “poof”, “pansy” and “fairy”; other children did impressions of me with their wrists limp. I experienced physical violence, too. I was shoved, kicked, my head was slammed against the wall. I was punched in the face more than once.But it wasn’t just my sexuality that set me apart. I was “weird”. I had a rigid attachment to routine and was terribly shy, sometimes freezing in social situations. I needed to be on my own for long periods; not easy when you’re in a family of five and share a bedroom with your br...

Politics

1 week ago 'I don't like action movies and I've never watched a John Wick film

This is not the film for smaller nuances. This Len Wiseman directorial is after the big punches and Ana de Armas delivers them — one flying kick at a time.

Culture

1 week ago 'Driver paid bridge toll in pennies but I got the last laugh for wasting my time'

A toll booth worker got revenge on a driver who tried to 'stick it to the man' by paying his fee in pennies - but the worker got the last laugh with how he handled the situation

Politics

1 week ago F1 penalty point stock take – Lando Norris and other situations as Max Verstappen nears ban

Max Verstappen is veering dangerously close to a one-race ban thanks to his penalty points total, while we look at how many points each F1 driver has and how close they are to a suspension

Politics

1 week ago Warning after delivery van driver 'touches children's faces' and asks for personal information

The incident was reported in Shaw

Events

1 week ago Taxi driver taken to court after offering £13 fare outside Trafford Centre

The driver pleaded guilty to multiple offences

Economics

2 w. ago A killer driver, a predatory gymnastics coach and Just Stop Oil activists jailed this week in Greater Manchester

Prison terms are handed out to the worst offenders

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