By NICK PISA, SENIOR REPORTER Published: 13:04 BST, 18 July 2026 | Updated: 13:06 BST, 18 July 2026 This is the mystery England World Cup team bus driver who penned a poem to Three Lions legend Jude Bellingham. Michael Chandler wrote the four-page ode to the England squad after they…
Paedophile scoutmaster who spent decades on the run after fleeing to Thailand gets nine years taken off his jail sentence
A paedophile scoutmaster who spent decades on the run from authorities after fleeing to Thailand has had nine years lopped off his prison sentence following a judge’s ‘error’. Former boarding school housemaster and scout leader Richard Burrows, 83, was jailed for 46 years in April for a series of sexual…
Dozens of Brits ‘duped into purchasing illegal Spanish properties’ are evicted, assaulted and lose everything: The story you MUST read if you’re thinking of buying a home abroad
*Some names have been changed to protect the identities of the homeowners In 2003, 24 British families bought homes on a newly built development in the picturesque area of Gea y Truyols in Spain’s Murcia region. Many of them had sold their homes in the UK, invested their life savings…
Beyond the Perseids — 6 meteor showers worth watching this summer
The Perseids may be the summer meteor shower everyone marks on the calendar, but they are not the only reason to look up this season. From mid-July through late August, Earth plows through several other streams of comet and asteroid debris, triggering a series of lesser-known meteor showers across Northern…
Toe-curling moment Sinn Fein politician complains she’s not allowed to speak in Gaelic in European Parliament – only to backtrack in English when she’s told she can
A Sinn Fein politician who accused the European Parliament of stopping her from speaking Gaelic made an embarrassing climbdown in English after officials pointed out that she was, in fact, allowed to do so. Dublin MEP Lynn Boylan was addressing a committee on EU Foreign Affairs when she found herself in…
Parkour star with 11 million YouTube followers avoids prison even though he was caught with nearly 3,000 sex abuse images showing very young children
A member of an internationally famous parkour supergroup was spared prison after pleading guilty to making and possessing nearly 3,000 images of sex abuse involving children as young as six years old. Callum Powell, 34, spent more than a decade as a member of Storror, a team of seven professional…
What changed Sadiq? London Mayor Khan is caught on camera saying the House of Lords should be abolished just four years ago – now he is happily its latest member
By JOSHUA HAINING, NEWS REPORTER Published: 10:41 BST, 18 July 2026 | Updated: 10:46 BST, 18 July 2026 Sadiq Khan was caught on camera saying the House of Lords should be abolished just four years ago, despite becoming its latest member. The London Mayor is one of 15 new Labour…
Revealed: The ‘quiet and shy’ 28-year-old suspect held over the murder of Ann Widdecombe
Smiling for the camera, this is the man suspected of killing Ann Widdecombe. Pictured here for the first time, Joshua Kerry is accused of targeting the 78-year-old former Tory minister in her Devon home in a suspected terrorist attack. The 28-year-old has lived alone in a council house in Rotherham,…
‘The Starry Night’ in space: Dark Energy Camera channels a cosmic Van Gogh (video)
Reboots and remakes may be all the rage in Hollywood with mixed degrees of success (we don’t talk about the Nightmare on Elm Street reboot … ever), but they aren’t so popular in other forms of art such as painting. However, a recent cosmic rework of one of art’s most…
Our fortnight from hell: Young teenagers having sex on the beach, luxury homes trashed by drunk teens and parents who couldn’t care less. Locals from this seaside village reveal their nightmare
Set against the curve of the craggy cliffs that punctuate Cornwall’s northern coastline, Polzeath is a glorious sweep of sand that stretches in a golden arc down to the shore. During the day it’s a surfer’s paradise. Families also love to descend on the Blue Flag beach with their buckets,…