Minus 11.8C! Mercury falls to lowest temperature for a year – but at least we were spared the snow chaos forecasters feared Freezing conditions not as bad as first feared as heavy snowfall was predicted People had been warned rural communities could be cut off amid travel delays Snow stopped falling by midday and today … Read more
Public sector pay will be frozen next year – but nurses, doctors and the lowest-paid will still get a rise, Rishi Sunak said yesterday. The Chancellor said he could not justify a ‘significant, across-the-board’ hike for the public sector given the difficulties faced by private firms. Many businesses, particularly in retail and hospitality, have been devastated … Read more
‘I’m glad she did it’: Bachelorette runner-up Joe Woodbury says he is grateful he was spared ‘brutal’ dumping by Elly Miles during finale By Ali Daher and Kristy Johnson For Daily Mail Australia Published: 05:01 GMT, 8 November 2020 | Updated: 05:01 GMT, 8 November 2020 The Bachelorette’s Elly Miles defied producers when she dumped … Read more
£1m lottery winner and his brothers beat car wash boss unconscious with a baseball bat and drove him out of Welsh town over ‘damage to his Audi’ Jacob Hodge stormed the car wash with twin Joshua, 29, and brother Jamie, 31 They attacked the owner Bahroz Saeed at the garage in Caldicot, Gwent All three … Read more
Hit-and-run drunk driver who left victim for dead is spared jail… after offering to pay him £10,000 Engineer Stephen Andrews, 41, crashed into taxi driver Inam Ulhaq at 50mph He had drunk three pints of lager and lemonade plus whisky before driving Andrews then hid at a friend’s house before contacting police 12 hours later He … Read more
British holidaymakers in France could be spared quarantine for now despite a surge in coronavirus cases. A review due to be completed today is expected to keep France on the list of countries that are exempted from the UK’s 14-day isolation rules. However, the Netherlands and Malta are at risk of being taken off the … Read more
Clergyman’s ex-wife is spared jail after waging a vendetta of lies against her former husband The high court ruled locking up Jean Gibbs, 60, would not stop her false claims Ms Gibbs claimed Methodist minister Charles Gibbs, 70, abused their son Mr Gibbs, who now lives on the Isles of Scilly, says she repeatedly accused him … Read more
British 28-stone conman, 74, is spared jail because he is so fat prison staff would struggle to get him out of bed A judge at Southampton Crown Court said jail staff would struggle to get 28-stone Barry Beardall out of bed in the morning Judge Henry said the 74-year-old’s size and ill-health, meant he would … Read more
America is willing to drop the threat of the death penalty in order to put the British ‘ISIS Beatles’ on trial, it was reported last night. El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey are accused of belonging to a four-man execution cell in Syria named after the band by their captives. Elsheikh and Kotey also have admitted their involvement … Read more
A 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard has been spared jail after being found guilty of accessory to 5,230 murders. Bruno Dey was handed a two-year suspended sentence on Thursday by a court in Hamburg. In what could be one of the last such cases involving surviving Nazi guards, Dey was convicted for his role … Read more