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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.…

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…

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…

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…

PETER Mandelson has been pictured arriving home after the ex-ambassador was released on bail pending further investigation following his arrest. The former minister, 72, was taken into custody on Monday as part of a probe into misconduct in public office just days after Andrew was quizzed by cops. Mandelson was…

A MONSTER has pleaded guilty to murdering his ex-partner after she was stabbed to death in the street. Michele Kennedy, 55, was discovered outside a home in Warrington, Cheshire, on October 13 last year. The mum tragically could not be saved and was declared dead five days later. Her ex…

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…

A SAFETY fence has gone up around what locals say is a “puddle”.  They mocked the 5x5m barrier, installed after a 5in-deep body of water was deemed a potential “drowning hazard”.  It is close to a completely unfenced pond in Rowntree Park, York.  One local said: “When you leave the park there’s a big flippin’…

A MAN has died and a teenage boy is fighting for his life after a horror stabbing. Cops have launched an urgent murder investigation after the attack in Northampton this evening. Emergency services responded to reports of two people being knifed at a skate park in Ringway, Briar Hill. Paramedics…

A POLICE force allegedly ignored warnings from its own officer about a serial rapist after she was assaulted – even suggesting she could be lying. Bruno Sala, 39, was given a life sentence last year after a crime spree of meeting women online before raping them, sometimes repeatedly. Between 2019…