UP TO 10 inches of snow is on the cards today – with the Met Office issuing an amber alert as the freezing cold snap continues to bite. Drivers were forced to abandon their cars last night and some communities have been cut off due to the severe wintry weather. Sign up for The Sun…
A DONKEY charity was left more money in wills than the Royal British Legion last year, figures show. There were £37.8million-worth of legacy donations to the Donkey Sanctuary. 2 Royal British Legion will donations lagged behind those made to leading animal charitiesCredit: SWNS:South West News Service The sum exceeds the £27.5million left to Britain’s leading…
THE BOSS of the cash-strapped Police Federation earned £600,000 in salary and bonuses last year. It means the head of the rank and file officers’ “union” Mukund Krishna earned twice as much as Met Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley. Mr Krishna’s vast pay award was revealed to Parliament by Labour MP and former Met Police…
A MASKED man who gassed trams with a highly flammable vapour in a UK city centre has pleaded guilty. Ghalib Saeed, 31, let off butane gas inside Manchester Metrolink tram carriages on three “disturbing” occasions on March 15, 20 and 22. 4 Emergency services responded to the terrifying incidentsCredit: MEN Media 4 Passengers said they…
A SPECIAL forces soldier shot a comrade seven times by accident after using live ammo instead of blanks during a training exercise. Shocking details emerged as the elite serviceman got a suspended jail term at a military court in Wiltshire — which said there were multiple safety failures. 4 A special forces soldier was accidentally…
A NINE-year-old girl has been shot three times in a “racially aggravated” attack, as cops launch an urgent manhunt. Police were called to Chakeshill Drive, in Brentry, Bristol at 1.30pm on Thursday, September 2. Officers discovered a nine-year-old girl had been hit three times with airgun pellets. Avon and Somerset Police have described the attack…
Emergency alert accessibility features The government has confirmed that this year’s emergency alert will be accessible to all. Cabinet minister Abena Oppong-Asare said: “We have ensured that the Emergency Alerts system works with voice reader software. This means that everyone who already has this and all other accessibility settings enabled on their phones should have…
A DRUG smuggler who was deported three times has won the right to stay in the UK after judges ruled it would upset his family life. Fraudster Oduola Toye snuck back into the country using fake names after being booted out repeatedly for smuggling Class A drugs. 3 The serial fraudster was allowed to stay…
PRISON bosses are seizing almost 30 illegal mobile phones from inmates every day. Figures show more than 10,000 were uncovered in jails last year — with the gadgets increasingly smuggled in by drones. 2 Zombie knife thug Robbie Scott, 22, had shared a rap video from his prison cell in HMP ManchesterCredit: TikTok 2 Over…
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL said: “Courage is rightly regarded as the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all the others depend.” The truth of those words is highlighted by the heroics of RAF Flight Lieutenant John Cruickshank, who has died at the age 105. 5 RAF Flight Lieutenant John Cruickshank has died at the age…