ENGLAND manager Gareth Southgate has paid tribute to a teenager who died in Thailand. Anthony Ryan, 17, met Southgate in 2014 when the-then under-21 football boss coached at his former school in Bradford. Anthony was killed last month when his motorbike hit a van in Phuket — and a letter from Southgate was read out […]
MUSIC fans have slammed the Brit Awards as a “fix” after adverts proclaiming that The 1975 had won two awards aired – HOURS before the band was announced as winners. One UKTV Play viewer noticed that the rockers were being proclaimed as double champions long before the prestigious music ceremony even started. Kieran Thomson tweeted: […]
MANCHESTER CITY were the victims of a complete and utter VAR farce. If I was refereeing and I saw the first penalty incident after City’s 3-2 win at Schalke, I would be furious about that decision. Firstly, because the pitchside monitor was not working and, secondly, my colleague in the VAR room deemed that a […]
THE breakaway new Independent Group would win one in seven of the nation’s votes in a general election. The first opinion poll on the fledgling new alliance of centrist MPs put them on a shock 14 per cent yesterday. The figure is already double the support for the Lib Dems, who have sunk to 7 […]
A MAINTENANCE man blacked up at a works party then sang songs from the Black And White Minstrel Show to a black co-worker, a court heard. Brian Davies, 62, was filmed looking like 1920s blackface star Al Jolson as he pranced around in front of Loretta Doyley and other colleagues. Yesterday he was fined £120 […]
AN ex-Olympic athlete and pal of the Middletons ripped off a car’s wing mirror and threatened the driver. Bernie Shrosbree, 60, ex-member of the elite Special Boat Service, was cycling with a pal when a motorist beeped his horn. Shrosbree ripped off his Mercedes’ mirror and kicked the bodywork after “swear words were exchanged” in […]
IT’LL be another fine day with bright conditions for most central, eastern and southern areas of the UK. There’ll be the occasional drizzle in western areas but temperatures will feel very mild for most. UK weather forecast for 6am on Thursday February 21 UK weather forecast for 3pm on Thursday February 21 UK outlook for […]
MORNING cloud will eventually clear to give way to dry and sunny spells over the afternoon. It’ll be a pleasant afternoon and temperatures will hit a maximum of 14C. London weather forecast for 6am on Thursday February 21 London weather forecast for 12pm on Thursday February 21 UK outlook for Friday February 22 to Sunday […]
ARIES March 21 to April 20 Your romance profile is high-achieving. Set some new goals for a partnership – then exceed them. If you are looking for love, at first you think a Capricorn is not your type, yet you could make a brilliant couple. Work-wise, a small compromise helps a stop-start project move on. […]
CALVIN Harris forked out almost £80,000 on dancing animals for his Brits performance. The Scottish DJ, 35, insisted on having a dancing crab and dragon made in time for the show, to echo those in his One Kiss video, despite only being on screen for a matter of minutes. The creatures featured in his medley, […]
THIS year’s London Fashion Week drew all the industry’s star names – Beckham, Burberry, Big Bird… Yes, it seems Sesame Street was the event’s biggest design influence by far this year. Or by fur. Oh, and feathers too. CLEMMIE FIELDSEND picks out the furry best outfits by designer Jimmy Paul and On/Off, which start at […]
A SERIAL killer was on the loose, and one letter-writer to The Times was very pleased about it. After the murder of a second “prostitute” by Jack the Ripper in 1888, Edward Fairfield set pen to paper to declare: “It was on the whole a good thing that they fell in with this unknown surgical […]
A STUDENT has been accused of making guns with a 3D printer — the first case of its kind in the UK. Tendai Muswere, 25, was allegedly caught with two computer-generated weapons when cops searched his flat over a separate matter. Muswere claimed he was doing a university project after being raided twice in October […]
PINK amazed viewers with her impressive BRIT Awards 2019 performance tonight, after she picked up the Outstanding Contribution To Music gong. The 39-year-old singer was hailed an “absolute class act” with her medley of hit tracks to end the annual music bash. Pink’s 10-minute set saw her belt out her hit tracks, including Walk Me Home, […]
SPANISH police hit Celtic fans with batons and reportedly fired rubber bullets in nasty scenes on the streets of Valencia. The Scottish side are in Spain for the second leg of their Europa League last 32 clash on Thursday night. But the mood turned nasty on the eve of the game with videos circulating on […]
THE death of a female pensioner at a Blackpool hospital is being treated as murder by cops. A post-mortem carried out on Valerie Kneale, 75, found what police are calling a suspicious injury. An investigation into Blackpool Victoria Hospital’s stroke unit was carried out last November after allegations of mistreatment and neglect. Two women and […]
Tory turncoats IN some parallel universe the Tory party may have been “captured” by the hard right, as the three turncoats alleged yesterday. It sure as hell hasn’t in this one. So forget their paranoid and baseless fantasies about Ukip infiltrators. Or about the Tories, under their most left-wing leader in a generation, in fact […]
SAMI KHEDIRA revealed he underwent successful heart treatment this morning and hopes to back in a Juventus shirt soon. The midfielder was diagnosed with arrhythmia after tests on Tuesday showed he had an irregular heartbeat. I've had a successful interventional therapy today in the morning with an ablation of an arrhythmogenic atrial focus. Everything went […]
NO one in my circle of friends and family thinks Shamima Begum should be allowed back into Britain. She made her bed and now, however uncomfortable it is, she must lie in it. But you must know one thing. None of the widespread condemnation of her actions is a patch on the revulsion that comes […]
A GROUP of paddle-boarders were stunned when three humpback whales launched themselves out of the water just yards from them. The spectacular display was caught on film by Kathy Daly as the huge mammals rose out of the water in Hawaii before diving back down to the depths. The amateur videographer can be heard in […]
SO now we know what the so-called Independent Group is really all about. It is about stopping Brexit. It is about preventing the enactment of the largest democratic vote in British history and frustrating the British people’s vote for independence from the European Union. Yes, taking Orwellianism to dizzy new heights, this new political group […]
COPS are warning about an “extremely dangerous” drug craze that sees youngsters sniffing the fumes of burning WHEELIE BINS. The bizarre trend sees teens setting fire to the plastic bins then inhaling the highly toxic fumes to get high. It is thought certain dyes used in the manufacturing of waste bins – depending on the […]
REBEL Heidi Allen claims a THIRD of her former colleagues are fed up with the way the Tories are being run while vowing to destroy her old party. The MP for South Cambridgeshire sensationally quit the Conservatives on Wednesday along with fellow Remainers Sarah Wollaston and Anna Soubry. Their shock defection boosted the new Independent Group of […]
JASON ROY produced something so spectacular that he upstaged even Chris Gayle. The Surrey slugger plundered 123 from just 85 balls, while Joe Root amassed 102, as England recorded their highest successful chase in one-day international history. They swept past the Windies’ 360-8 with eight balls to spare – making it the third best pursuit […]
ACTOR Jussie Smollett is officially suspected of filing a false police report after claiming he was beaten by two white Trump supporters, police announced tonight. The Empire TV star claimed to have been set upon by racist homophobic thugs who put a noose around his neck and threw bleach in his face in Chicago last […]
