Big Brother star Jade Goody's widower Jack Tweed has been charged with drug-driving after he allegedly tested three times over the limit for cannabis.
The 39-year-old is said to have been high behind the wheel of a Volkswagen Golf when he was pulled over by police in December last year near Chelmsford, Essex.
Animal rights campaigners have demanded the World Black Pudding Throwing Championships use vegan alternatives, arguing it was wrong for the 'blood and fat' of pigs to be hurled for 'a bit of fun'.
The annual competition, held in Ramsbottom, Lancashire, sees rivals throw bloody sausages in a bid to knock traditional Yorkshire and Lancashire black puddings off a 20ft high plinth.
Record numbers of police are on long-term sick leave, with critics blaming poor management, rising levels of violence and increasing workloads for the problem.
Home Office figures show that the equivalent of 3,358 full-time officers across 43 forces were absent through sickness, at a cost to the taxpayer of nearly £3 million a week.
An iconic California beach town's frustrated locals have clinched an important legal win after complaining that a noisy Waymo charging station had been keeping them up all night for more than a year.
Waymo was ordered to stop using two charging facilities from 11pm to 6am in Santa Monica on Monday in a preliminary injunction granted by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Bradley S. Phillips.
The mystery surrounding the death of a Scot whose body was found in a suitcase in Greece has deepened after officers confirmed the outside of the bag was clear of DNA and fingerprints.
Elisabeth Jane Ross, from Edinburgh, was found inside a suitcase in a derelict building in Athens on July 18, having travelled to Greece three weeks earlier.
Train operators across Britain have spent more than £13million on hiring taxis for staff because of rail disruptions – including when an alternative rail service was 'too cold'.
Over 395,000 taxi bookings – funded by ticket fares and the Department for Transport – were made by staff by train operators since January 2025, figures gathered from freedom of information requests have revealed.
Two Australian women have been charged after disturbing footage captured an alleged racial attack against three male Chinese students.
The 26-year-old and 33-year-old women were involved in an alleged altercation with the trio at Central Station, in Sydney, in the early hours of the morning on July 25.
It's like a scene from one of those hard-bitten American crime movies of the 1930s. The police and a key prosecution witness are discussing problems with their evidence in a fast-approaching trial.
It turns out that the facts in the case have changed, rather awkwardly. It is a glum scene. And the cops say to the witness: ‘Yeah, we can’t change the data.’ And then they say: ‘But we can change the interpretation of it.’
Foreign Office mandarins serving in Bali, the Maldives and Abu Dhabi get extra holidays and bonus pay for 'hardship', The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Under generous taxpayer-funded deals, staff get 'breathers' for taking up 'hardship posts'. These are supposed to be in places where there are security threats, high levels of crime or air pollution.
An American private equity billionaire is trucking up to 13,000 gallons of water daily to his country estate in Wiltshire – despite a ban on tankers filling up from nearby mains.
Blackstone boss Stephen Schwarzman, 79, who is one of Wall Street's most powerful financiers, has infuriated neighbours of Conholt Park, near Andover, who face hosepipe bans following the warmest spring on record and a drought.
Doing his best to keep cool in the sweltering heat of the capital, Peter Mandelson was spotted taking a dip in the men's pond at Hampstead Heath.
The disgraced former Labour peer, 72, had booked a £5 one-hour swimming session – but was seen deep in conversation with an attendant about annual membership.
It was just a year ago that Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry enjoyed a holiday together with their daughter just weeks after they announced their split.
The pair, along with Daisy Dove, five, and Bloom's 15-year-old son Flynn from his marriage to model Miranda Kerr, went on a sun-soaked trip to Italy as a blended family.
