39 h. ago Man, 48, battered OAP in street after being told to 'f*** off' in Wetherspoons

Lee Nichols attacked the pensioner as he waited for a bus home from the pub, and has been slammed by a judge for what was called a 'wholly unprovoked, unwarranted attack'

Politics

5 d. ago Coronation Street star's exit confirmed as Lauren Bolton told 'he's gone' weeks after last scene

The ITV soap has seemingly confirmed an exit on-screen as Lauren Bolton was given the news

Politics

8 d. ago Coronation Street star told fellow legend she was leaving in same phone call as they address future

They both bowed out of the ITV soap within months of each other

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8 d. ago ‘Youths everywhere were spitting over tinny beats playing off a Nokia’: great grime photographer Simon Wheatley

He was young and broke when he became grime’s first documentarian. Then his book Don’t Call Me Urban captured the energy of the grittier first wave – and an expanded edition is finally hereIt’s an overcast Thursday morning, and photographer Simon Wheatley is doing a soft-shoe shuffle through Roman Road in Bow, east London, as a market stall blares out exquisite 70s funk. “That’s more like it,” he says, with a grin on his face. “A bit of energy.” This was once grime’s artery, its chaotic central hub, even its muse – a street Wiley once told me was “the nurturer” of local talents like him and Dizzee Rascal. And it was here, in the 2000s, that Wheatley would create a vivid and intimate document of grime in its frenzied flush of youth, and of working-class neighbourhoods like this before they became considerably more sedate. Fourteen years after the release of Don’t Call Me Urban, Wheatley’s long-sold-out photo-book from that era – once described by Vice as “grime’s Old Testament” – it ...

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1 week ago Tougher sentences for criminals who abuse LGBT people ‘vital step forward’ – MP

‘I know what it means to think twice how you walk down the street,’ Labour MP Jacob Collier told the Commons.

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1 week ago Husband who stabbed wife to death in the street as she pushed their baby in a pram told doctor 'he felt like he would kill her' more than a year before attack, court hears

Kulsuma Akter, 27, was killed by her husband Habibur Masum, 26, after he confronted her in the street while she was pushing their seven-month-old son in a pram on April 6 last year.

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2 w. ago Brit tourists 'stolen from' as 'suspicious' trend sweeps holiday hotspot island

Spain has urged Brits to be careful as there are "suspicious" offers of help sweeping the Balearic Islands, with UK holidaymakers told to keep an eye on personal belongings and avoid street scams

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2 w. ago Couple turn detective and steal back their own Jaguar after 'police fail to act'

The pair had fitted their Jaguar E-Pace, worth around £46,000, with an Apple AirTag, allowing them to trace it to a street in London - but after calling 999, they were told police couldn't immediately help

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2 w. ago Inside the high street so bad locals call it 'St Awful': How Cornwall's biggest town has a problem with drugs, homelessness and empty shops

The town's reputation has become so bad that locals have cruelly dubbed it 'St Awful' and this week told MailOnline they now fear to walk down the high street.

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3 w. ago How flight attendants 'punish' passengers who refuse to swap seats on a plane

Orlando-based flight attendant Mitra Amirzadeh told The Wall Street Journal that passengers who refuse to swap seats are 'punished' with this secret trick that cabin crew swear by.

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3 w. ago Flight attendant reveals the secret trick used to 'punish' passengers who refuse to swap seats

Orlando-based flight attendant Mitra Amirzadeh told The Wall Street Journal that passengers who refuse to swap seats are 'punished' with this secret trick that cabin crew swear by.

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3 w. ago Witnesses tell of horror as Scots gangsters shot dead outside Spanish bar

Terrified witnesses have told of the moment chaos erupted on a Spanish street after Ross Monaghan and Eddie Lyons Jnr were shot outside a popular Irish bar on the Costa del Sol.

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