December 2019

Jolyon Maugham said he was wearing wife’s satin kimono when he beat animal to death with baseball bat Via: RSPCA investigating after prominent lawyer admits clubbing fox to death

PM attempts to hold onto Labour voters who ‘lent’ him their votes to get Brexit done Via: Boris Johnson to tear up rules to boost spending for the north after election landslide

‘We don’t want to be politicised,’ says outgoing Supreme Court president – who also condemns ‘unfortunate’ press attacks on top judges Via: Lady Hale warns government against US-style 'politicisation' of court appointments

Applications peaked in March and October when deadlines for UK leaving EU came and went Via: Brexit: Record number of Irish passports issued as Britons seek to keep EU citizenship

Oscar Hartland, from Machen, Caerphilly, first played Neil the baby, in the third series of the cult BBC show in 2009. Via: Child actor who played Nessa and Smithy's baby in Gavin and Stacey reprised role nearly ten years on

Scientists in Brazil, the world’s biggest producer of coffee, found that the ‘haptic’ – or touching – experience of what people were drinking from made a big difference. Via: Drinking coffee from a 'smooth' cup makes it tastes better, scientists claim 

US researchers who studied almost 100 children found they could predict which would suffer depressive symptoms at the age of 11 by scanning their brains when they were seven. Via: Signs of depression can be detected in children as young as seven, study finds 

TOM UTLEY: You can tell a lot about the way modern families tend to neglect their elderly by the number of car parking spaces available on our road in south London. Via: TOM UTLEY: Annual fight for parking space on Christmas Day makes me wish young cared for the old

Labour MP Stan Orme – code named Manchester – passed on information to Czechoslovak agents who then reported to their bosses in Prague. Via: Labour politicians handed secrets to Czech spies each month during Cold War