DAY 3 of the York Ebor Festival brings together the top five furlong sprinters for the Nunthorpe – and this year’s race is a belter. The Gimcrack and the Londsale Cup are other fantastic contests – and here are some of the best longshots on the card. Getty Images - Getty 1.55 York – Never […]
GEMMA Atkinson and Gorka Marquez have sparked engagement rumours after she was pictured wearing a ring on her wedding finger. The loved up couple met a year ago on Strictly Come Dancing and fans think the dancer may have celebrated the milestone by proposing. Actress Gemma, 33, was pictured in the ring on her Instagram before […]
A FORMER Playboy model has been found dead after being strangled in her bedroom, according to reports. Christina Carlin-Kraft, 36, was found by cops following a welfare check, authorities said. Cops had already been to her home in Pennsylvania on Saturday investigating a possible robbery. It was not immediately clear if that crime had anything to […]
ALI G is back in the house – to mock Donald Trump’s “life of crime” and congratulate him for “bedding pornstars”. Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s fictional character made a comeback on Twitter last night where he branded the US president a “genuine gangsta”. In an open letter, he appeared to take aim at Trump’s ongoing […]
A JEWISH Labour MP has slammed Jeremy Corbyn after a video emerged showing him accusing British Zionists of having “no sense of English irony”. Luciana Berger said the Labour leader’s comments, made in 2013, were “inexcusable”. In the clip the leftie leader said: “[British Zionists] clearly have two problems. One is they don’t want to […]
MALCOLM Turnbull has been ousted as Australian Prime Minister by his party rivals – with Scott Morrison elected to take over his role. The beleaguered leader of the conservative Liberal Party called a leadership meeting on Friday after losing the majority support of the party. Morrison, who will be Australia’s sixth prime minister in less than 10 […]
COPS arrested a man after graphic photos of a car crash that left a woman dead were posted on Facebook. Lizzy Keenan, 30, was a passenger in a Vauxhall Corsa that hit a wall. Distressing images taken at the scene in Chellaston, Derbys, on Monday were posted on the social network. They were shared at […]
A JAPANESE-themed bar is the latest victim of left-wing snowflakes. Labour MP Rosie Duffield accused the Tokyo Tea Rooms of cultural appropriation for dressing white women as geisha girls. And she backed students who are boycotting the new cocktail bar in Canterbury, Kent. Ms Duffield, the local MP, claimed the bar’s opening night costumes were […]
NEW Strictly star Danny John-Jules poses with six of its female dancers — and looks in seventh heaven. The Red Dwarf actor, 57 — holding the Glitterball trophy — posted the racy snap online before heading for a MotoGP event at Silverstone, Northants. He was flanked by, from left, Katya Jones, 24; Oti Mabuse, 27; […]
KATIE Piper’s acid attacker will be out of jail within weeks. The Parole Board confirmed the decision yesterday. They ignored a plea in person by the telly presenter, one of this year’s Strictly hopefuls. She has had 40 face ops since being attacked in 2009 by Stefan Sylvestre, 30, in Golders Green, North London. He […]
COOLER and wetter weather is set to scupper plans for bank holiday barbecues, forecasters say. Weekend temperatures are tipped to reach only 65F (18C) as a cold front brings fresher air from the Atlantic to much of the country. Met Office meteorologist Martin Young said: “The cooler conditions will continue through the weekend and for […]
A FUGITIVE said to have taunted cops after skipping court to go to Africa was remanded in custody by JPs yesterday. Sam Walker, 35, snub-bed an April court date for a road offence — then tweeted videos apparently from Sierra Leone. He added: “Here’s how to get out the UK when you need to get […]
RUSSIAN trolls used Twitter to spread misinformation about vaccinations, a study suggests. The rogue accounts started online debates then suggested vaccines were unsafe, the researchers found. Meanwhile, bots and hacked accounts, known as cyborgs, were also used to spread the false claims. In some cases, the accounts were shown to belong to the same Russian […]
A WETHERSPOONS barman led a £100million cocaine smuggling gang. Alessandro Iembo, 28, used a private jet to bring in the drugs from Colombia. Iembo, who pulled pints at Bournemouth’s Mary Shelley pub, recruited bricklayer pal Martin Neil, 48, Spanish waiter Victor Franco-Lorenzo, 40, and hairdresser Jose Miguelez-Botas, 56. Last December the gang paid £138,000 for […]
A HUNGRY pregnant mum and her partner’s visit to McDonald’s ended up with them getting a seven-pounder – in the shape of a bouncing baby boy. Sarah Meek and Josh Hall, both 21, became proud parents to Alfie Samuel Hall at a fast food restaurant near Goole, East Yorkshire. The couple had pulled in for […]
JEREMY Corbyn was widely mocked last night after he called for a digital “sister” to the BBC to rival Netflix and Facebook. In a speech in Edinburgh laying out his plans for radical media reforms the Labour leader said a British Digital Corporation could “deliver information and entertainment to rival Netflix and Amazon but also […]
HIGH winds and torrential rains from Hurricane Lane have battered Hawaii sparking devastating flash floods after 20 INCHES of rain fell on Thursday. Packing winds of 125 miles per hour, Lane is churning through the Pacific Ocean – and the Big Island and Maui will soon be “in the thick” of the storm. Landslides and raging […]
PECKISH magpie Josie scoffs her regular treat, a roast dinner from the family who reared her. Danny Burgess and Katie Murphy saved the orphaned bird after she toppled from her nest. They helped her recover till she flew off. But she now drops in every day, helping herself to their beer, cigarettes and even Sunday […]
MISSED out on a ticket to your favourite festival? Don’t despair. Your wallet will be better off. We spend more than £400 each time we go to a music festival, including tickets, getting there, food and drink, according to money.com. And you can still have a great weekend by recreating the fun of Reading and […]
SCHOOLS Minister Nick Gibb was awarded a dunce’s cap on Thursday as he failed to explain the new GCSE grades. Mr Gibb struggled for two minutes to make sense of the new 1 to 9 system during a car-crash radio interview. He was reduced to pointing out that a grade 8 is the “midway point […]
MYLEENE Klass glances skywards as it rains yesterday — and still looks heavenly. The star, 40, was hit by bad wetter ahead of hosting her radio show in central London. She was clothed, unlike her I’m A Celeb 2006 scene. Bet she could have done with a drench-coat.
ANGELA Merkel is plotting to strengthen Berlin’s iron grip on the EU by shoehorning in her own man as its new chief official. The Chancellor wants a German to succeed Jean-Claude Juncker as boss of the Commission, increasing her stranglehold on the powerful institution. Such a move could see Berlin claim a clean sweep of […]
BRUSSELS has told Britain it will have to pay if it wants to keep access to EU security databases after Brexit. Michel Barnier laid down the demand, which has reportedly infuriated UK negotiators, at a meeting with Brexit secretary Dominic Raab this week. Britain is a huge contributor to European security and defence and has […]
JOHN Lennon’s killer has been DENIED parole for a 10th time after losing a new bid for freedom. Mark David Chapman, now 63, went up before the parole board in New York yesterday, but members ruled that he must stay behind bars. The American killer was caged for 20 years to life over the December […]
A MAG boss struck a legal deal to tell what Donald Trump knew of payments to silence two alleged ex-lovers. Trump pal David Pecker was given immunity from prosecution to come clean. Court papers reveal a media chief, thought to be him, put Trump lawyer Michael Cohen in touch with one woman — porn star […]
