UK

The Royal College of Surgeons say that growing numbers of obese people and smokers are being denied operations as they become “soft targets” for an NHS  which has become desperate to save money. According to […]

Lawyers for Elton John and David Furnish have pleaded with the Supreme Court to extend a Court of Appeal decision to ban the British press from publishing details about the celebrity threesome scandal the pair are currently […]

A replica of a two thousand year old Syrian arch which was destroyed by ISIS in the ancient city of Palmyra, has been erected in London’s Trafalgar Square. The arch represents the entrance to the […]

Paedophiles could be spared jail and  given counseling instead due to the massive volume of online child abuse images and scant resources, according to Britain’s National Crime Agency NCA chief Lynne Owens said the scale […]

Choppers who was the last of the original PG Tips chimpanzees has died at Twycross Zoo. She was 48 years old and famous for her role as Ada in adverts for a popular tea brand […]

A court in Truro, Cornwall has sentenced a fake student to jail for defrauding her parents out of £250,000 for a pretend degree course at an elite UK university. Nicola Boardman spent the money her […]

A UK teenager managed to pass his driving test and get a full license despite killing a deer during the exam.  The Independent reports: Tom Lo, 17, was driving around 40mph when the deer ran […]

The tax affairs of British Prime Minister David Cameron will not be investigated by the parliamentary standards watchdog, after it emerged he had profited from an offshore trust. The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Kathryn Hudson, […]

Thousands converged on Hyde park throughout Wednesday to celebrate World Weed Day. Police made 23 arrests for cannabis related offences. The day went by peacefully as protesters against the criminalization of marijuana enjoyed a day […]