Michael Williams, 34, hired Mike Wilson to do some work on his bathroom at his home in Kendal, Cumbria, while he was away with his family in Turkey. Via: Amorous plumber caught on CCTV 'having sex with another man's wife'
Eco-activists forced the fast-food chain to shut its doors by staging a sit-in in Leicester Square while chanting a protest song with a call to ‘shut this system down’. Via: Extinction Rebellion sit-in shuts down a Burger King in London
Fiorenzo Sauro, the director of Enzo Homes, ordered the 176-year-old tree bordering on land he wanted to develop a housing estate on to be cut down despite its protected status. Via: Developer, 49, 'deliberately' sent axemen to fell 176-year-old giant redwood
SCOTCH EGG ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS Via: PAUL THOMAS on…Transport food ban plan
Eyewitnesses reported seeing the two teenagers attacked in front of shocked onlookers in Stratford, east London, on Thursday afternoon, with one of the pair receiving fatal stab wounds. Via: Teenager is knifed to death outside east London McDonald's
Blazes destroy buildings and spur evacuations while high winds fuel fears for San Francisco Bay AreaGusts reaching 70mph raked the San Francisco Bay Area early on Thursday after California’s biggest utility shut off electricity to nearly 2 million people for fear high winds in the forecast could bring down power Read more
Writers including Salman Rushdie, Hari Kunzru and Slavoj Žižek say the 2019 Nobel laureate ‘combines great insight with shocking ethical blindness’Olga Tokarczuk: the dreadlocked feminist winner the Nobel neededTwenty years before Peter Handke would become a Nobel laureate, he won another title. In 1999, Salman Rushdie named him the runner-up Read more
Social Market Foundation says employees at all levels should share in a company’s growthCompanies in Britain should be forced to share rising profits with their workers through a change in the law, a thinktank has said.The Social Market Foundation said the government should tighten corporate governance laws to ramp up Read more
MPs ‘deeply concerned’ about corporation’s finances amid the threat from Netflix and the exodus of younger viewersMPs have warned about the increasingly dire state of the BBC’s finances as competition from Netflix pushes up the cost of making programmes, and called on the government to find a way of ensuring Read more
16-year-old listed local targets including schools, post offices, pubs, council buildings, a passport office and a bus station Via: Teenage neo-Nazi wrote list of venues 'worth attacking' and hoped to follow in footsteps of Hitler, jury hears