UK news

• The Prophets of Dumb: Famous predictions that turned out to be spectacularly wrong

  19-01-2016 23:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  From Michael Fish failing to forecast a hurricane in 1987 to Alan Hansen's famous "You can't win anything with kids" gaffe, here are some other toe-curling quotes ...
  
  Read more

• Is this the rudest dessert EVER? This cake looks so dirty its untrue

  19-01-2016 23:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The picture has had nearly 700 views since it was uploaded, but internet users aren't sure what it's supposed to be
  
  Read more

• British sniper investigated 'for shooting dead Iraqi grenade attacker - because he didn't warn him first'

  19-01-2016 23:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Iraqi insurgent had fired at the UK sniper's base twice already - and was seconds away from launching a third potentially deadly grenade, it is reported
  
  Read more

• NHS scientist wins asylum then rapes young girl ‘patient’

  19-01-2016 23:25
  
  A SCIENTIST who worked for the NHS after being granted asylum in Britain faces jail after repeatedly raping and abusing a young girl he pretended he was medically examining.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Weird cannibal frogfish dubbed 'toothless dragon' online found by holidaymakers

  19-01-2016 23:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It's not every day an "alien" frog-like-fish with legs makes an appearance check out this bizarre discovery
  
  Read more

• ISIS use Oliver Reed war film to threaten Italy in chilling new video

  19-01-2016 23:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The terror group uses clips from the 1981 film Lion of the Desert to threaten Italy
  
  Read more

• Eastenders star Dean Gaffney cleared of motoring offence...but it still costs the taxpayer

  19-01-2016 23:16
  
  FORMER Eastenders star Dean Gaffney has been cleared of a motoring offence, and wasted no time in billing taxpayers for his journey to the courtroom.
  
  Read more

• George Osborne accepts £8,000 helicopter ride from property baron as he prepares to slash social housing

  19-01-2016 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Chancellor hopped on the costly flight to the Forest of Dean to schmooze with Tory supporters in November
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Incredible video shows rattlesnake's body still moving after it had its head chopped off

  19-01-2016 23:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING: This video contains images that some may find disturbing or distressing
  
  Read more

• Britain’s got talent: Our young stars leading the way in Europe

  19-01-2016 23:07
  
  BRITISH stars dominate Europe’s top 30 of the most influential young people in entertainment and sport.
  
  Read more

• Lord Janner escaped child sex charges due to 'failures by police and prosecutors'

  19-01-2016 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police and the Crown Prosecution Service also failed to act in 2002 and 2007 when there was a “realistic prospect” of convicting the alleged paedophile
  
  Read more

• It's time for Labour's Eurosceptics to speak up

  19-01-2016 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Labour needs to wake up to the large number of members who want to leave the EU, writes John Mills
  
  Read more

• 'I spent 20 years delivering coal - to discover I'm a sultan's son is a fairytale come true'

  19-01-2016 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Keith Williams spent all his life lugging huge bags of coal but is actually the son of a Malaysian sultan
  
  Read more

• 'I fear child killer Robert Black drove past me with my daughter in his van'

  19-01-2016 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  John Tate is haunted by the possibility that he drove within feet of his daughter Genette while she was trussed up in the back of his vehicle
  
  Read more

• How the Lord Janner investigation unfolded and how the peer escaped charges 3 times

  19-01-2016 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Retired High Court judge Sir Richard Henriques said it was “wrong” the peer, who died before Christmas, was not first charged with child sex abuse in 1991
  
  Read more

• A la carte is off the menu as top restaurants cut down on waste

  19-01-2016 22:58 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Michelin-starred chefs are limiting diners' choice to go green and save money
  
  Read more

• Yeovil's St. Michael's primary school headteacher's blast at parents

  19-01-2016 22:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Parents at St Michael's Academy in Yeovil, Somerset, received a telling off for sending children to class 'in a pretty shocking state'.
  
  Read more

• Sarah Palin endorses Donald Trump as Republican presidential candidate

  19-01-2016 22:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former Alaska governor has thrown her weight behind the Republican frontrunner for the White House
  
  Read more

• Civil servant caught having SEX on CCTV in council office faces losing his job

  19-01-2016 22:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The couple were caught on camera in numerous offices of a local authority leading to their public shaming
  
  Read more

• It is time for Muslim women in Britain to speak up

  19-01-2016 22:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Alison Phillips thinks Muslim women should be encouraged to speak English - to empower them
  
  Read more

• Esmé Weir is knocked down and killed as she played in the street

  19-01-2016 22:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Eyewitnesses said Esmé Weir and her mother were returning home from playgroup when tragedy struck on a narrow road in Neston on the Wirral, Cheshire. The four-year-old girl died in hospital.
  
  Read more

• Vicious thug who beat his girlfriend so badly she lost her memory loses appeal against prison sentence

  19-01-2016 22:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A man who beat a mother-of-two so badly she had to have hypnosis to remember what happened has lost his appeal against the conviction
  
  Read more

• George Osborne accused of demeaning his office with cheap joke about mental health

  19-01-2016 22:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis hit back after Mr Osborne said he and John McDonnell "lost their marbles"
  
  Read more

• 'Loved by many' ISIS pen bizarre tribute to Jihadi John as they FINALLY confirm his death

  19-01-2016 22:24
  
  THE depraved Islamic State have finally confirmed the death of British Jihadi John in a bizarre obituary, which praises him as an "honourable brother" who was "loved and respected by many".
  
  Read more

• Tragic war hero, 25, dies of gullet cancer just six months after being diagnosed

  19-01-2016 22:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lance Corporal Andrew Kirby died in hospital on Saturday surrounded by his family and friends
  
  Read more

• Terror gang plotted to kill cop or soldier and used 'trainers' as code for guns

  19-01-2016 22:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  British Muslims Tarik Hassane, 22, Suhaib Majeed, 21, Nyall Hamlett, 25, and Nathan Cuffy, 26, all plotted terror attacks on the streets of London following a fatwa issued by ISIS, court hears
  
  Read more

• British schoolgirls who fled to depraved ISIS 'may have been KILLED by Russian bombs'

  19-01-2016 22:18
  
  THE three east London schoolgirls who gave up their normal lives to be jihadi wives are feared DEAD after their families lost contact with them.
  
  Read more

• Children’s pastor Timothy Storey ‘raped two teenage girls after grooming them

  19-01-2016 22:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Timothy Storey, 35, allegedly led a 'double life' expounding Christian values of abstinence at St Michael's Church in Victoria, central London, while targeting young girls from the congregation.
  
  Read more

• Four young men film themselves riding through city centre on ONE MOPED chanting 'we do what we want!'

  19-01-2016 22:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police have appealed for information about the men, after the film showed them travelling through Cardiff
  
  Read more

• Waiters in Parliament don't get a penny of tips left on credit cards

  19-01-2016 22:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Westminster's taxpayer-subsidised restaurants give no card tips to temporary staff despite MPs' outcry over firms with a similar policy
  
  Read more

• Poppi Worthington's father may never face justice after it was found he 'did sexually abuse her'

  19-01-2016 22:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Paul Worthington, 48, was arrested after 13 month old Poppi was found with serious injuries at home
  
  Read more

• ISIS confirm Jihadi John was killed by US drone in sickening tribute which also CELEBRATES 7/7 London attacks

  19-01-2016 22:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  An ISIS magazine paid tribute Abu Muharib al-Muhajir who was known throughout the UK as Mohammed Emwazi
  
  Read more

• Airport chaos as 6 planes unable to land because of SHETLAND PONY on the runway

  19-01-2016 22:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The escaped animal caused havoc for about an hour as it galloped around the airstrip of Goucestershire Airport
  
  Read more

• First picture of digger driver found dead and dismembered in bag in canal

  19-01-2016 22:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kenneth O'Brien, 33, was identified from samples given by his family after he was reported missing on Saturday evening
  
  Read more

• Doctor accused of manslaughter after mother dies giving birth by Cesarean section

  19-01-2016 22:01 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Dr Errol Cornish admitted that he should have taken more urgent steps to revive mother-of-two Frances Cappuccini
  
  Read more

• Lib Dems forced to cut short their annual conference in a bid to save cash

  19-01-2016 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The conference will end a day early after lobbyists, campaigners and sponsors like Google abandoned Tim Farron’s party
  
  Read more

• 'I need to know the truth about my sister's murder and her brutal "cannibal" killer'

  19-01-2016 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Cery Yemm was attacked by a "cannibal" killer Matthew Williams in a Welsh hotel room, here her sister reveals her torment
  
  Read more

• EuroMillions results: Winning numbers for tonight's massive £68 million jackpot

  19-01-2016 21:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It's a life-changing amount of money and tonight someone could scoop the massive jackpot
  
  Read more

• Sarah Payne's killer Roy Whiting is battered and scalded in prison attack by fellow inmate

  19-01-2016 21:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Convicted paedophile  Whiting, 56, who  is  serving 40 years for the murder of 8-year-old Sarah in   2000, was reportedly badly hurt in the incident
  
  Read more

• Mother's honest story about the heartbreak of her baby being stillborn

  19-01-2016 21:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Antonia Mitchell, 33, of London,was in Australia when her daughter, Shoshana, was stillborn. Figures released today show 7,200 babies are stillborn every day worldwide.
  
  Read more

• Tim Peake enjoys 'sideways' video chat with son from International Space Station

  19-01-2016 21:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Major Peake has two boys - Thomas, six, and Oliver, four - and jept up to date with events back home via video link from space
  
  Read more

• Firms hiring skilled foreign workers could be billed £1,000 a year by the Tories

  19-01-2016 21:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ministers were also urged to hike the minimum salary threshold by almost £10,000 to £30,000 for non-EU migrants
  
  Read more

• This crazy new McDonald's creation will blow your mind - you'll either love it or hate it

  19-01-2016 21:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The fast food chain has unveiled its latest menu creation containing two items that really shouldn't go together
  
  Read more

• Civil servants are attempting to water down FOI laws, former minister warns

  19-01-2016 21:09 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Lord McNally, who oversaw FOI laws during the Coalition, says 'culture of secrecy is still alive and kicking' in criticism of government FOI review
  
  Read more

• Robin Hollyson, one of Britain's most notorious paedophiles is found hanged in jail 

  19-01-2016 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  IT expert Robin Hollyson, 31, of Luton, Bedfordshire, was previously on suicide watch but was taken off it. He was found hanged in his cell at HMP Bristol, where he was serving a 24-year jail sentence.
  
  Read more

• Tory MP Nusrat Ghani breaks down during Konika Dhar questioning

  19-01-2016 20:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Konika Dhar had told MPs she was struggling to come to terms with the 'persona' her brother Siddhartha had adopted since joining ISIS before Nusrat Ghani, pictured, broke down.
  
  Read more

• Ministers consider stamp duty discounts for home insulation

  19-01-2016 20:42 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Households could be offered discounts on stamp duty or council tax in return for installing energy efficiency measures
  
  Read more

• UK under pressure to investigate possible RAF involvement in Iraq civilian deaths

  19-01-2016 20:38 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The British Government maintains there have been no civilian casualities as a result of its air strikes in Iraq and Syria
  
  Read more

• Heterosexual couple argue they are being discriminated against in civil partnership ban row

  19-01-2016 20:36 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan want to secure legal recognition of their relationship without getting married
  
  Read more

• Is YOUR local Post Office about to close? Up to 42 branches across Britain face the chop

  19-01-2016 20:35
  
  UP TO 42 Post Office branches across the country are facing the chop as part of a cost-cutting exercise by the newly-privatised service, it emerged today.
  
  Read more

Follow @newslock_uknews on Twitter!