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AN ED Sheeran lookalike has said he feels trapped every time he leaves the house, claiming that fans mob him wherever he goes. Ty Jones – who has amassed 123,000 followers online – avoids large public spaces, considering them to be nothing but “trouble” for him. The ginger-haired 30-year-old was…

AN “EXPERIENCED” skydiver who tragically died while taking part in a wingsuit jump has been pictured – as his devastated family pay tribute. Chas McNeil, 49, was sadly pronounced dead at Dunkeswell Aerodrome, in Devon, on Saturday afternoon. Chas was described as highly experienced and had completed 10,000 jumps. Skydive…

DISGUSTED locals claim giant rats “as large as rabbits” roam their streets in one of Britain’s worst fly-tipping hotspots. Residents in Newport, south east Wales, say they are “worse off than the third world” as rubbish is frequently dumped on the streets. Council officials have installed CCTV and operate frequent…

A BOOZE and drug-fuelled thug who used his Mercedes as a “weapon” and ploughed into a crowd of clubbers has been jailed. Mohammed Suffi, 23, mowed down revellers outside The Tunnel Club in Birmingham in a shocking revenge rampage that left a DJ with catastrophic injuries. Harrowing footage showed the…

PRO-PALESTINE activists have defaced a statue of Sir Winston Churchill and branded him a “Zionist war criminal” in graffiti. The red paint scrawled on the Westminster statue also reads “Stop the genocide” and “Never again is now”. Other phrases included “Globalise the Intifada” and “Free Palestine”. The protesters reportedly wrote…

NIGEL FARAGE has blasted “deeply concerning” levels of family voting in a crunch by-election following the release of a volunteer report. Polling stations slammed shut in Gorton and Denton at 10pm on Thursday with the ballot coming down to a tight three-horse race between Reform UK, Labour and the Greens.…

CHURCHES are turning to computerised chimes in a move that threatens the end of traditional bell-ringing. St Sampson’s in South Hill, Cornwall, is the latest to abandon the traditional rope and clappers to ring peels for services, weddings and funerals. Its 17th-century bells were deemed to be too delicate to…

A HUSBAND whose wife killed herself after allegedly suffering a “tsunami of abuse” blames her injuries on rough sex, a court heard. Christopher Trybus is on trial accused of manslaughter after Tarryn Baird was found hanged at home in Swindon, Wiltshire, at the age of 34. The 43-year-old allegedly trapped her in an…

ONE of Britain’s most prolific train fare dodgers has been spared jail after owing more than £30,000 in unpaid tickets. Charles Brohiri, 29, did not pay fares across a two year period and pleaded guilty to 76 charges of failing to pay for a rail ticket. The defendant, originally from…