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In Chancellor Rishi Sunak's Budget today he decided to raise Corporation tax from 20% to 25% from 2023 - froze income tax thresholds and extended the furlough scheme until the end of September. He said the 100% business rates holiday in England will continue from April until June and the stamp duty cut will continue until the end of June,...
Iraqi Kurd Azum Mangori, aka Christopher Mayer, has gone on trial at Exeter Crown Court accused of murdering Lorraine Cox, 32, after meeting her on a night out in Exeter and then cutting her body up into pieces above a Kebab shop. Mangori denies murder but admits preventing a lawful burial. The jury was told they met as she walked home...
Golf great Tiger Woods has been moved to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for "continuing orthopedic care and recovery" after being transferred from Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, where he had emergency surgery on Tuesday for fractures to his right leg. Woods hit a kerb and then a tree before losing control of an SUV and rolled over several times near the border of...
South Wales Police Constable Tasia Stephens, 24, lost her job today for crashing her car into a shop whilst drunk after downing booze at a lockdown-breaching family party. A misconduct hearing which started yesterday at Pencoed in Bridgend sacked her and barred her from working anywhere within a police force after deciding her behaviour undermines public confidence in law enforcement. The...
Celtic fan Joseph Kelly, 35, of Castlemilk, Glasgow, has been charged with sending a "grossly offensive tweet" about Captain Sir Tom Moore. He has been pictured and identified online from social media posts but did not attend a scheduled hearing at Lanark Sheriff Court. Kelly called for the fund-raising war veteran to "burn" on Twitter the day after Sir Tom died...
Pensioner Anthony Williams, 70, was jailed for five years today for killing his wife during the first lockdown in March last year. He snapped and "choked the living daylights" out of wife Ruth after a row about the effect of the lockdown when she told him to deal with it. After his arrest, on the way to the police station, he...
Police Constable Tasia Stephens, 24, of the South Wales Police Force, faces the sack after being convicted of drink-driving which resulted in a crash after allegedly attending a boozy house party during lockdown. She faces a misconduct hearing in Bridgend on Monday morning and is accused of attending a family event in April last year while off duty when the...
Princess Latifa Al Maktoum has sent secret videos to friends accusing her father of imprisoning her and holding her hostage and saying she feared for her life. The Princess, who tried to flee the country in 2018, is the daughter of Dubai's ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who is one of the richest heads of state in...
It's so strange to see but it's great. Real people, a real crowd - socially distanced of course - allowed in to watch India play England in the second test match in Chennai. Being televised live on Channel 4 as I write, with England requiring a test record 482 to win, it doesn't seem to matter that much if we...
Marzena Relowicz, the mother of Polish butcher Pawel Relowicz, who raped and murdered philosophy student Libby Squire, has told The Sun on Sunday this morning that she wept for Libby's heartbroken parents. The Polish fruit picker said from her home in Chelmzaz: “A beautiful girl was killed. It’s heartbreaking. I think of her parents and what they are going through....