An 83-year-old woman was mugged for £20 on Christmas Day in what police have described as a “callous and violent” attack. The BBC reports that the woman, from Bournemouth on the south coast of England, left her home at 11.30
The missing AirAsia flight is likely to be at the “bottom of the sea”, the head of Indonesia’s search and rescue operation has said. The BBC reports that Bambang Soelistyo said that due to the coordinates of the flight when
The last British resident detained at Guantanamo Bay may leave the detention centre in the new year as part of Barack Obama’s long-delayed plan to close the base. The US president is urging the release of almost half of Guantanamo
Yet another poll has put Labour on course to lose the vast majority of its Scottish MPs at May’s General Election. The ICM poll for the Guardian puts the party down 16 percent on the 2010 election, with the Scottish
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has been named ‘Briton of the Year’ by the Times of London. The paper awarded him the title for what it called his “game-changing” politics in a year in which the party won the European elections
The Conservative party will attempt to repeal the ban on hunting with hounds if it wins next year’s General Election. The party will offer a free vote to repeal the controversial law, passed by Tony Blair’s Labour government, using government
A local newspaper has apologised after incorrectly running a UKIP ad with the phrase ‘Say no to the UK’. The Rotherham Recorder printed an apology, blaming the mistake – which was widely ridiculed – on an “error in the production
A bill affirming the right of local councils in England and Wales to hold prayers at meetings has received the support of the both the government and the main opposition Labour Party. The Local Government (Religious etc. Observances) Bill, which
The BBC’s Director of Television has said that he has “never felt so uncomfortable as a Jew in the UK” due a rising level of anti-Semitism. The Jewish Chronicle reports that Danny Cohen told a conference in Jerusalem about rising
An English Catholic bishop has condemned John Lennon’s song ‘Imagine’ as “heart-chilling” in a Christmas homily. The Catholic Herald reports that Mark Davies, Bishop of Shrewsbury, will use his Christmas Day homily to reflect on the First World War, saying:
Some internet services are back online in North Korea after the country suffered a massive outage. The unprecedented down time came amid a cyber-security row in which Sony was forced to cancel the release of a film depicting the assassination
The Labour party faces being all but wiped out in Scotland at next year’s General Election, a new poll suggests. The Survation poll for the Daily Record puts the party – traditionally dominant north of the border – on just
The Catholic tradition of Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve is under threat in Britain due to interruptions from drunken intruders. According to a survey for Catholic magazine The Tablet, 50 deaneries – local groups of parishes – have had to
Eight siblings have been found stabbed to death in a house in Australia. The children, aged from 18 months to 15 years, were discovered by an older brother, aged 20, who arrived home to find them dead. The mass killing
Thousands of Germans will take to the streets today to protest against what they see as the country’s “Islamification” in what are likely to be the largest in a string of demonstrations in recent weeks. Protests have started taking place
One in every seven people arrested in Britain last year was foreign, new figures have revealed. The figures from the Association of Chief Police Officers show that police officers arrested 173,000 foreign suspects in 2013, with some having lengthy criminal
Three months after the independence referendum, the majority of Scots now support an independent Scotland a YouGov poll has found. The survey says that 52 percent of Scots now want Scotland to break away from the UK, once undecided voters
A former security minister has said that British spies may have been aware of torture carried out by CIA agents. Lord West of Spithead, who served in Gordon Brown’s Labour government, said there may have been the “odd case” where
Britain’s media was shocked today after it emerged that UKIP attempted to win the support of a man described by Margaret Thatcher as “the best parliamentarian I ever knew”. The Telegraph reports that, in the early years of UKIP, Nigel
The 12-day UN climate change summit in Peru has generated more carbon dioxide than an entire African country. The talks, aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, generated more than 50,000 tonnes of CO2, as more than 12,500 politicians, green
An African woman gave evidence to a London court for more than an hour before a clerk noticed she was not speaking English. Lawyers had struggled to understand the woman, who claims she was raped by a Kenyan preacher, but
More than 5,000 people died worldwide last month as a result of jihadi violence, a BBC report claims. The four worst countries were Iraq, Nigeria, Afghanistan and Syria, which account of 80 percent of all deaths in November. The investigation,
All on duty police officers in the West Midlands Police force were ordered back to base last night after the force received anonymous information regarding a threat to kidnap and kill an officer. The force released a statement saying that
A head teacher who ran a school that was investigated by the ‘Trojan Horse’ inquiry has said that he was forced out for “giving children British values”. Balwant Bains, who is Sikh, said he had to leave Saltley School in
Fat commuters should lose weight if they want more space on the train, an MP has said. Anne Milton, a former public health minister, tweeted yesterday that a “very large bottomed man” was making her feel “squashed” as he sat
