Three sisters who ran an all-female fraud gang have been jailed after using stolen receipts and credit card numbers to scam almost £80,000 in designer clothes, beauty treatments and cash. Lynsey Burdon, 36, and her sisters Emmiline, 29, and Sarah, 40, from Manchester, were sentenced at Chester Crown Court today after admitting conspiracy to commit … Read more
University of Westminster student who ran away to join ISIS ‘is killed trying to escape from jail in Syria’ Ishak Mostefaoui, 27, reportedly died while trying to escape custody in Syria The student originally from east London left the UK to join ISIS in 2014 His father Abderrahmane says the football-loving boy was radicalised in 2013 By … Read more
ALI Wentworth has revealed her dog Cooper has been left “traumatized” after he was attacked by deer following an escape from his home. Blaming her husband, Good Morning America host George Stephanopolous, for leaving open the gate, the author – who has been battling coronavirus – revealed the devastating news and shared that after Cooper … Read more
A bad time to be alive’: More than half of all Earth’s ocean life died off 444 million years ago because it ran out of oxygen, study shows Researchers studied samples of black shale from the Murzuq Basin in Libya They used this and existing data to build a model of ancient ocean oxygen levels It suggested … Read more
It was one of the most hotly contested Daily Mail competitions ever. The 1932 Knitting Contest challenged readers to design their own jumper — and thousands responded. Entries were highly original: one had two tiny dolls attached; another (right) made a virtue of the £200 cash prize. Now, with the country in lockdown, we’re relaunching … Read more
A hospital in London almost ran out of oxygen last weekend because it was treating so many coronavirus patients at the same time. The incident, at a hospital which hasn’t been named, sparked fears that huge numbers of patients needing breathing support could run oxygen pipelines dry. Large numbers of ventilators running at once could … Read more