EACH YEAR, the acting president of the United States delivers a State of the Union address. The tradition dates back to the days of George Washington. What is the State of the Union? The State of the Union address (SOTU) is an annual speech delivered by the president to Congress near the beginning of each […]
How will ‘single-leg’ rail tickets work as return tickets are scrapped – how much will it cost commuters and what does it mean for your journey? The change is expected to be announced at Westminster on Tuesday evening Passengers fear the move will actually be a stealth rise in railway ticket prices The Government is […]
HORRIFIED residents heard "screams" after a woman and three children were found "stabbed" in a Huddersfield home. Officers were called to a house on Walpole Road at 8.02am by the ambulance service and police have since arrested a woman on suspicion of attempted murder. Cops found three children with serious injuries and have confirmed they […]
Watch as drink-driver high on cannabis and double legal limit drinks can of cider while at the wheel minutes before horror crash that killed passenger Ricky Davies, 30, drank cider at the wheel while high on cannabis He caused a crash in which his 18-year-old passenger Dafydd Hughes was killed A killer driver who crashed after […]
Pictured: Burnt out home of French mother and her seven children killed in fire caused by tumble dryer ‘left on overnight to save on energy costs’ as cops launch manslaughter probe ‘Only side walls remain’ at Charly-sur-Marne home, 50 miles east of Paris Harrowing pictures show the remains of the home smothered in thick black […]
Long Island street named after Ku Klux Klan New York leader Paul Lindner is renamed Acorn Way after students pushed for tribute to wealthy white banker to be slashed from the village A street that honored a leader of the Ku Klux Klan in New York has a new name New York has recently removed […]
Teenagers are being sold banned vaping devices containing up to 3,500 puffs, investigation shows It’s illegal to sell vapes containing nicotine to under-18s, but some shops do Sold devices more than five times legal size giving young users up to 3,500 puffs READ MORE: Top-selling vape stripped from shelves over illegal nicotine level Schoolchildren are […]
Key points A Springvale temple belonging to the Bright Moon Buddhist Society temple caught fire about 8pm Sunday. About 150 firefighters were called, and it took them almost three hours to bring the fire under control. Springvale was blanketed in smoke and the flames were reportedly seen up to 15km away. The temple was destroyed. […]
Rugby fan whose ancestor wrote famous Welsh hymn wades into row over banning of Tom Jones’ hit Delilah – saying reading the lyrics is ‘like finding out your favourite uncle has a bit of a dodgy past’ John Wilesmith is related to writer William Williams Pantycleyn The grandad-of-three said he thought the decision to ban […]
The US housewife trained by British intelligence who helped shape the CIA: Spy who went behind enemy lines in WWII helped track down Nazi gold before dying in a plane crash in 1948 Jane Burrell worked for the OSS – the wartime forerunner to the CIA She was one of a cast of women who […]
