‘Something just happened’: Lionesses on women’s football
The manager, captain and first-choice goalkeeper of the England women’s team talk about how far the sport has come and how far it has to go.
Russians are snapping up Western fashion and furniture this week as H&M and IKEA sell off the last of their inventory in Russia
Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer reassure Melissa Nathoo it's okay to be confused when you've watched NOPE. They also discuss annoying sibling behaviour and a weird peeing story....
An inside source called Skelton’s rumoured sign-up ‘the perfect way to bounce back’
HUNDREDS of striking Amazon warehouse workers are furious after being told by their boss that they will not get a pay rise.
Team GB Olympic hero Eve Muirhead has announced her retirement from curling. Muirhead skippered Britain to gold at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, adding to bronze from Sochi 2014, and also claimed world and European titles during her career. “After 15 years of international curling and 21 international titles I have made the hardest decision of my life to hang up my curling shoes and retire," Muirhead said in a post on social media.
Liz Truss will not repeat a Rishi Sunak-style universal payout to help all households with their energy bills if she becomes prime minister, according to an MP involved in her campaign.
The actor and filmmaker played Remy "Thirteen" Hadley on the medical-drama television series House
Polio is transmitting between people in parts of London and mutated strains of the virus that can cause paralysis have been detected in sewage, a leading immunisation expert warned on Thursday. Professor Sir Andrew Pollard urged parents in the capital to bring their children forward to get a polio booster jab. All children aged one to nine living in Greater London will be offered a polio vaccine after the virus was detected in waste water.
The body of 52-year-old Dawn Walker was discovered in a field four days after she married Thomas Nutt in October last year.
Jacinda Ardern’s tourism minister said the country should be targeting wealthy holidaymakers to New Zealand at the expense of “dried noodle” eating backpackers.
Former 'EastEnders' actor Cliff Parisi lost half a stone in a week after filming 'Celebrity MasterChef'.
Extradition proceedings for an alleged US fugitive who is said to have faked his own death to escape sex charges have been delayed for another week after he instructed a new solicitor.
The pair died just hours before the band were set to perform at a festival.
The Advocate General for Scotland, Lord Stewart QC, has said the decision does not fall within the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.
<p>A retired bank worker is the last person living on 'Britain's loneliest street' which is all due to be knocked down - but he's refusing to move.</p><p>Nick Wisniewski, 66, has no neighbours living beside him in 128 flats after the last of around 200 residents moved out in December.</p><p>The eight blocks of flats and other homes on Stanhope Place are all scheduled for demolition.</p><p>But Nick refuses to leave - despite the council's attempts to buy him out.</p><p>Nick says council officials have offered him £35,000 plus two years' rent somewhere else if he moves.</p><p>They want to flatten Stanhope Place, in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, and redevelop the area - but he is refusing to go.</p><p>He said the area made up of eight blocks used to be buzzing with 200 people.</p><p>But it now lies abandoned and overgrown with empty properties boarded up.</p><p>Nick claims North Lanarkshire Council's offer would not be enough to buy somewhere else.</p><p>Retired TSB bank worker Nick said he is not in a position to buy anywhere else and is too old to get a mortgage. </p><p>Nick said: “The last person left in December, it’s like a ghost town now.</p><p>"It’s so quiet and strange being the only person living here. </p><p>“I’m used to it now, but it can get lonely, there is no one to speak to.</p><p>“There are eight blocks each with 16 flats in them - there used to roughly be 200 people here and you would struggle to get a parking space.</p><p>“Now I am the only one left.”</p><p>Nick bought his flat in 2017 under the Right to Buy scheme which helped council tenants buy their homes at a discounted price.</p><p>Council chiefs offered Nick alternative accommodation in a terraced house for two years rent free which he turned down.</p><p>He said he is worried he doesn’t know where he will end up living – but doesn’t want to leave his home. </p><p>Nick, who retired last year, said: “When people left they just dumped old cookers, mattresses, washing machine outside, it was a mess.</p><p>“The council just left the flats lying empty after people moved out.</p><p>“There is no security and people could get into the empty flats and lots of windows have been broken.</p><p>“Thankfully I haven’t had any trouble.</p><p>“The grass is badly overgrown, it’s ridiculous.</p><p>“I think the council are leaving it unkept to annoy me or in the hope I get fed up and leave.</p><p>“They offered me £35,000 for my flat and two years' rent free somewhere else.</p><p>“But I am not prepared to start paying rent again and £35,000 is not enough to buy somewhere new.</p><p>“You’re talking £80,000 to £100,000 to get somewhere new.</p><p>“I’m worried that I don’t know where I am going to end up living.</p><p>“I didn’t work all my life to have my home taken from me when I am too old to get a mortgage on something else.</p><p>“It would be so hard to leave my home."</p><p>A spokesperson for North Lanarkshire Council said: “We fully understand this is a sensitive issue and are working closely with the resident. </p><p>"It would not be appropriate to discuss the specific financial details, but we are working in accordance with our policies to ensure the resident receives a fair deal and to support him so that he finds suitable alternative accommodation.”</p>
CONGRATULATIONS to same sex couple Alessandro & Ryan Merchant-Russo who have tied the knot at the Principal hotel in York - photos
Restaurants in the affected area have been ordered to close
The County Press set a challenge to Ollie Hawthorn, of Brading, who spent a week on work experience with us.
Parents said they told she ‘wouldn’t be able to go to school there any more because of our lifestyle choices’
Karen Dunbar teamed up with Glasgow Girls Club to create a ‘Good in Glasgow’ platform that will “shine the spotlight” on heart-warming projects.