All news by author Thomas Brown

Witnesses said the crane "sliced through" a house, after a lorry carrying the crane toppled over in a residential street in Wigan on Saturday - leading to an operation to remove the huge metal lifter

Britain must ramp up its defence and aid spending and bolster its diplomatic and intelligence networks amid “the most dangerous period” since the Cold War, the UK’s formerly top civil servant has warned.

A court heard Darren Laken, 31, took a packet of knives from Poundland before stabbing the scared worker twelve times at the coffee shop in Belper, Derbyshire.

As party reels, new leader Gavin Robinson faces a U.K. election that could cost him his seat.

Lancashire Police were called to the crash in Leyland, Lancashire, in which a woman was injured and two dogs were killed after a teenager allegedly ploughed into them on a motorbike

Greater Manchester Police were called to a road in Moss Side, Manchester, earlier today after a teenager was stabbed on Raby Street, where a cordon remains in place

Making military aid to Kyiv more predictable would send a message to Russia that it won’t win the war, said the alliance chief.

Three former Supreme Court justices have joined more than 600 legal experts in calling for the UK government to end weapons sales to Israel.

Rishi Sunak has offered financial advice to members of the public in a bizarre video posted on Twitter/X.

Following the horrific gang-rape, the three attackers stole from her

The Premier League match between Burnley and Wolves on Tuesday saw security staff forced to move fans away from a section of Turf Moor after a piece of cladding became unstable

The dog’s owner, Phillip Boyer, was prosecuted by the RSPCA and sentenced at Liverpool Magistrates Court last Tuesday - he was jailed for 17 months and banned from keeping all animals for five years

Predator’s ’sordid secret’ revealed when cops searched vile lover’s phone

The 20 Lancashire councillors claimed the national Labour Party no longer represented them

Darts sensation Luke Littler continued his meteoric rise to earn his first Premier League Night win with a victory over Nathan Aspinall in Belfast after an exciting comeback

Doctors blamed the fact the patient was a foreigner which might have caused misunderstandings

James Sheridan and his partner were attacked in their home over an unpaid six-figure debt - now he’s admitted driving dangerously in a 140mph police chase some months before the incident

Referring to a pledge by some EU countries to give F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, the Russian president said other countries could become a legitimate target "wherever they are"

But royal author Robert Jobson claims he will be haunted by the ’ghosts of Easter’s past’

Multiple people have been held hostage at a bar in the Netherlands where armed police surrounded the building amid reports that a man entered with weapons and explosives

You won’t believe how some of your favourite footballers look like now...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak doled out damehoods, knighthoods and CBEs to tech experts, Tory MPs and those in the creative industry as he published a surprise list of gongs

Andrew Magee, from Widnes in Cheshire, was trusted to join a family on a camping holiday, but when the parents fell asleep he lead their 15-year-old daughter to a tent where he raped her