All news for 2024-04-19

Charities say high rates of people signed off work are caused by crumbling public services after years of underinvestment

Environmental groups say bosses should ‘hang their heads in shame’ as firm bows to pressure from shareholders to cut costs

Gabriel Marinoaica was found guilty of rape after dragging a 15-year-old girl out to sea and attacking her while telling her not to scream, as thousands of people were on Bournemouth beach

Emergency services and a bomb squad are currently at a flat in Dingle, Liverpool near a Tesco supermarket after a warrant was carried out by Merseyside Police

A house on the site said to be the inspiration for the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme has been put up for sale.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman was found dead at a five-star hotel in Surrey.

As the government seeks to ban tobacco sales to younger generations, parliament’s pipe and cigar enthusiasts are feeling nostalgic.

Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon has described allegations that her husband embezzled funds from the SNP as "incredibly difficult".

A 10-year-old girl ended up in hospital after burning her throat on the ‘world’s sourest sweet’, called Black Death.

The mystery behind why a pink supercar has been parked outside a London hotel for two years may have been solved.

Kent County Council is due to scrap a pedestrian zone of the seafront at Herne Bay following feisty opposition from local motorists who love to drive their cars in that specific bit of town

A man has been filmed yelling racist abuse at people on a train before he allegedly threatened a woman who started filming him. The unidentified male was heard shouting ‘this is England’ and calling passengers ‘f***ing foreign c***s’ on a Thameslink service travelling near Croydon, south London, on Thursday. After a passenger calls his tirade ’embarrassing’, a second man next to the male, appearing to mishear the comment, shouts: ‘It’s not about race, it’s not about race.’ Another passenger then intervenes, telling the first to man to ‘chill out’ before telling him: ‘You’re getting thrown out now.’ Mary Mandefield, a presenter on Hits Radio, said the man threatened her as soon as he saw her filming. She said he and at least one other man had been ‘starting on anyone’, including a woman in her 70s, used racist slurs and threw punches. It’s thought the men were then ejected from the train at the next stop, East Croydon.

A non-league footie boss who took a surprise leave of absence from the touchline is facing cocaine and cannabis supply charges.

Israeli forces have reportedly launched a retaliatory strike against Iran as explosions were heard in Isfahan, a city about 215 miles (350km) south of Tehran. Airspaces were closed amid the chaos