General news

• 'Exhausted' donkey rescued from storm drain in Cambridgeshire

  18-08-2015 23:50
  
  A donkey has been lifted to safety after it was trapped in a seven-foot storm drain in Cambridge for over five hours.
  
  Read more

• Two Georgia police officers charged with murder after using stun guns on unarmed black man in handcuffs

  18-08-2015 23:33
  
  A grand jury has filed murder charges against two former Atlanta, Georgia police officers on Tuesday.
  
  Read more

• Iain Duncan Smith criticised over made up quotes on benefits leaflet

  18-08-2015 23:31
  
  Iain Duncan Smith has been accused of misleading the public after welfare officials were forced to delete a series of made up quotes from a benefits leaflet.
  
  Read more

• VIDEO: Drone footage of rubbish mountain

  18-08-2015 23:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Drone footage captures an abandoned mountain of waste in Bromley which weighs an incredible 18,000 tonnes and is infuriating local residents.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Harriet Harman considered halting Labour leadership campaign - Telegraph.co.uk

  18-08-2015 23:03 via
  Telegraph.co.uk
  Harriet Harman considered halting Labour leadership campaign
  Telegraph.co.uk
  Harriet Harman considered attempting to halt the Labour leadership contest amid concerns that controversy around the voting process could leave the result open to a challenge in court. Sources close to the acting party leader said she is so alarmed by ...
  Hard-left unions weigh return to Corbyn-led LabourFinancial Times
  Why Jeremy Corbyn's campaign is a rational response to 30 years of failureIrish Inde
  

• School Swap – The Class Divide, TV review: It does little to dispel the public versus private stereotypes

  18-08-2015 23:00
  Education. It’s a notoriously divisive issue. There are those who believe that the only way to ensure a first-rate education is to pay for it. And there are those who don’t. Comprehensive headteacher Jo Ward falls firmly into the latter category. “If you paid me £500,000 a week, I wouldn’t teach in a private school,” she said in ITV’s new two-part documentary School Swap – The Class Divide.
  
  Read more

• New Tricks, TV review: Predictable fun held together by a relatively predictable cast

  18-08-2015 23:00
  
  A mystery that proved easier to solve, was the one facing the detectives in BBC1’s New Tricks. Tasked with discovering who killed a vicar in 2006, the team had to delve deep inside a family with no intention of giving up its secrets. And all while contending with the indignity of being supervised by new “acting head” Ted Case, played by Larry Lamb.
  
  Read more

• Manchester United 3 Club Brugge 1 player ratings: Memphis Depay impresses, but who else?

  18-08-2015 22:51
  
  Memphis Depay was the undisputed star of the show at Old Trafford as Manchester United came from behind to beat Club Brugge 3-1 in the first leg of their Champions League play-off against Club Brugge.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Quit alcohol altogether if you have a family history of cancer, experts warn

  18-08-2015 22:45
  
  People with a family history of cancer should seriously consider stopping drinking alcohol altogether experts have warned in response to new research which shows a link between light drinking and the disease, particularly breast cancer.
  
  Read more

• Prue Leith is wrong, lavishly illustrated cook books are not 'food porn'

  18-08-2015 22:12
  
  One of my favourite cookbooks, French Provincial Cooking by Elizabeth David, does not contain a single photograph. First published in 1962, it is embellished with gorgeous drawings by the Italian artist Renato Guttuso. These do not depict the finished dishes but evoke the ingredients – piles of vegetables, fish on the slab and so on. The result is an exquisite volume that delights the eye and entertains the mind, but it probably would not be published today – at least in that form.
  
  Read more

• How an intensive ten-day meditation retreat could transform your life for the better

  18-08-2015 21:51
  
  It was 5:30 in the morning on my third day of silent meditation when I noticed something in me take a sharp turn left. I was groggy, frustrated by my inability to sit still and hungry for the breakfast that was still an hour off. I got up from the spot on the floor of my bedroom where I’d been attempting to meditate and walked outside, to the new-growth woods behind the residential quarters at the Vipassana Meditation Centre in Shelburne, Massachusetts. It was springtime, and the outdoors
  
  Read more

• Rape victims remember key details even after drinking, new study says

  18-08-2015 21:42
  
  Women who have been raped after a night of drinking are just as likely to remember key details about their attackers as victims who were sober, a study has found.
  
  Read more

• Make e-cigarettes available on the NHS, say government health officials

  18-08-2015 21:37
  
  E-cigarettes should be available on NHS prescription, according to government health officials who have published a review saying that vaping is 95 per cent less harmful than tobacco.
  
  Read more

• Raffi Freedman-Gurspan: White House hires first transgender member of staff

  18-08-2015 21:35
  
  In the White House’s latest move to promote LGBT equality, the Obama administration has hired its first openly transgender staff member.
  
  Read more

• Andy Burnham accuses senior Labour figures of creating 'bad blood' amid Jeremy Corbyn attacks

  18-08-2015 21:28
  
  Senior Labour figures were accused by Andy Burnham of “circling the wagons” against the leadership frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn and creating “bad blood” which would make it harder to unite the fractured party.
  
  Read more

• Jury begins deliberating Charlotte police officer's manslaughter trial

  18-08-2015 21:06
  
  A jury began deliberating a Charlotte-Mecklenburg cop's voluntary manslaughter trial on Tuesday afternoon.
  
  Read more

• Government accused of protecting Tory-voting South as every one of the 27 newly-awarded fracking sites is in the North and Midlands

  18-08-2015 21:05
  The Government has been accused of protecting Conservative-voting southern constituencies from fracking, announcing that the next wave of shale-gas sites would all be in the North and Midlands.
  
  Read more

• 'Brain' grown in laboratory dish will help research for Alzheimer's

  18-08-2015 21:00
  
  A near-complete human brain comparable with that of a five-week-old foetus has been grown in a laboratory dish.
  
  Read more

• Harold Beeforth: 102-year-old veteran waits over four hours for an ambulance after falling during VJ Day anniversary celebrations

  18-08-2015 20:48
  A 102-year-old Second World War veteran waited for more than four hours for an ambulance after he fell and injured his head at a nursing home during the VJ Day anniversary celebrations on 15 August.
  
  Read more

• War with Isis: Iran seeks to join international coalition battling militants as part of significant shift in its foreign policy

  18-08-2015 20:38
  Iran is seeking to join the international coalition’s war with Isis in a move with huge repercussions for Syria’s civil war.
  
  Read more

• Man visiting Abu Dhabi takes taxi driver to Ferrari World theme park to 'make his dreams come true'

  18-08-2015 20:26
  
  An Irish man visiting the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been cast into the limelight after he took his taxi driver out for a day at a theme park, to make "his dreams come true.” 
  
  Read more

• Prison Worker Makes Ted Heath Allegation

  18-08-2015 20:23
  
  A prison worker in North Yorkshire has made an allegation against former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath, say Sky sources. The alleged offence is said to have occurred outside North Yorkshire and is being dealt with by Wiltshire Police, the force leading the investigation. Sir Edward visited Scarborough in the 1970s and met prominent local politician Peter Jaconelli, who died in 1999 and has since been accused of sexual offences against boys.
  
  Read more

• Sri Lanka election: Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa suffers narrow defeat in his bid to become PM

  18-08-2015 20:22
  
  After a bitterly fought comeback bid to become Prime Minister in Monday’s general election in Sri Lanka, the former President Mahinda Rajapaksa was defeated by his rival, the sitting PM, Ranil Wickremesinghe.
  
  Read more

• Theresa May set to sign new deal with French government to tackle migrant crisis

  18-08-2015 20:19
  
  Theresa May will travel to Calais on 20 August to sign a new deal with the French government to tackle the migrant crisis.
  
  Read more

• April Jones murder: Café defends sign featuring kidnap joke in town where 5-year-old was abducted and murdered

  18-08-2015 20:03
  
  A café owner in the town where 5-year-old April Jones was abducted and murdered has defended putting up a sign featuring a joke about kidnapping.
  
  Read more

• Mother's height linked to length of pregnancy and baby size

  18-08-2015 20:00
  
  Shorter mothers have genes that increase their chances of giving birth to smaller or prematurely born babies, research has shown.
  
  Read more

• Jeremy Corbyn blasts Iain Duncan Smith for 'truly shameful' fake quotes promoting his benefit sanctions regime

  18-08-2015 19:55
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has described the Government's admission that it used fake quotes to promote its benefit sanctions regime as "truly shameful".
  
  Read more

• Migrant Crisis: Britain And France To Agree Deal

  18-08-2015 19:50
  
  Home Secretary Theresa May is to visit Calais to sign an agreement aimed at alleviating the migrants crisis there. The French Interior Ministry said Ms May will travel to Calais on Thursday to sign the agreement with her counterpart Bernard Cazeneuve. The deal will focus on improving security at the port where thousands of migrants are trying to get to Britain on boats and through the Eurotunnel.
  
  Read more

• Voting for Jeremy Corbyn is deluded. For the love of Labour, pick Yvette Cooper

  18-08-2015 19:44
  
  If you love Labour, you need to vote for Yvette Cooper to lead the party to power. If winning elections and forming governments don’t matter to you, by all means vote for Jeremy Corbyn. If you hadn’t heard of him before the contest, it was probably because he never sat in a Cabinet meeting, he never informed policy, he never authored change on a national scale and he lacked the charisma of backbenchers like Tony Benn to become a known entity in his own right. He seems like a decent e
  
  Read more

• Rosie O'Donnell's 17-year-old daughter Chelsea missing for a week and being searched for by cops

  18-08-2015 19:43
  
  Police are searching for Rosie O'Donnell's 17-year-old daughter Chelsea, who has not been seen since leaving the family's home north of New York City last Tuesday
  
  Read more

• Calais migrants crisis deal to be agreed between Britain and France

  18-08-2015 19:35
  
  Britain and France are set to sign an agreement aimed at alleviating the Calais migrants crisis which will include measures to strengthen security at the port.
  
  Read more

• Syria civil war: Civilians in Damascus pay the price for those in the provinces in conflict's balance of horror

  18-08-2015 19:30
  
  It’s a balance of horror. Bombard Douma in the suburbs of Damascus to protect the civilians of Kifraya and Foaa in Idlib province. Teach the rebels that the Syrian government is as ruthless as ever, that it will not tolerate a threat to the capital’s water supply or rebel mortar explosions in the centre of the city. And Douma pays the price.
  
  Read more

• Man Arrested After Aston Martin Keyed On CCTV

  18-08-2015 19:26
  
  A man has been arrested after an Aston Martin was allegedly scratched with keys, causing £9,000 of damage to the luxury car. The 48-year-old suspect was taken to a police station for questioning and was held on suspicion of criminal damage, Scotland Yard said. Police released CCTV footage on Monday of a man pushing a pram who allegedly scraped keys down the passenger side of the V8 Vantage.
  
  Read more

• Ed Sheeran tops Spotify list of most influential under-25s

  18-08-2015 19:26
  
  British singer Ed Sheeran has scored yet another number one - on Spotify's list of the top 25 most influential artists under the age of 25.
  
  Read more

• Missing Emu: Police Appeal For Runaway Bird

  18-08-2015 19:21
  
  Police have launched an appeal for a runaway emu. According to the tweet, the bird has gone missing from the Wheatley area of the county, about five miles east of Oxford. The tweet reads: "EMU Missing from the Wheatley Area, any sightings please call 101 #RodHull PCSO Dollery".
  
  Read more

• New Era housing estate saved by Russell Brand becomes first to introduce 'means-tested rent'

  18-08-2015 19:14
  
  Residents of a London housing estate who fought off plans by its American investment fund owner to impose swingeing rent rises will instead pay means-tested rent in a scheme that could be copied across the country.
  
  Read more

• Iain Duncan Smith accused of misleading the public with fake quotes promoting the Government's benefit sanctions system

  18-08-2015 19:12
  The Government has been accused of misleading the public over its benefit sanctions programme after it admitted using fake quotes in a bid to promote its sanctions regime.
  
  Read more

• Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani: Peru's hardline archbishop of Lima plagiarised Popes Benedict XVI and Paul VI in his newspaper column

  18-08-2015 19:10
  As an outspoken critic of modern “decadence”, Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, the hardline archbishop of Lima, might be expected to set a spotless moral example.
  
  Read more

• Coffins Of Obese Scots Are Getting Too Big To Fit Into Crematorium Ovens

  18-08-2015 19:03
  
  While there are a few extra large ovens in operation, family members have chosen to bury their loved ones rather than travel long distances to an appropriate crematorium, reports the Sunday Times
  
  Read more

• Italian sex workers facing €500 fines if they refuse to swap miniskirts for high-vis jackets under new law

  18-08-2015 18:51
  
  Prostitutes congregating on a main road into the city of Milan will be fined €500 (£360) under a new local law if they fail to swap their standard issue miniskirts for the reflective jackets and trousers worn by road workers.
  
  Read more

• Police dashcam footage captures the moment a baby is delivered in a car after being pulled over for running a red light

  18-08-2015 18:48
  “Sorry officer but my girlfriend is in labour…” is the clichéd excuse for a guilty driving offence; but it was reality during a traffic stop in Seattle, Washington recently when officers pulled over a car for running a red light.
  
  Read more

• Co-op Close To Ending Pursuit Of Flowers Cash

  18-08-2015 18:48
  
  The Co-operative Group is close to abandoning an attempt to reclaim a severance payment worth more than £30,000 paid two years ago to the disgraced former chairman of its banking arm. Sky News has learnt that some directors of the Co-op believe that continuing to pursue Paul Flowers for the sum is counter-productive because of the legal costs involved. The disclosure comes just days after the Co-op Bank's board during Mr Flowers' tenure was savaged by the banking and City regulators for a
  
  Read more

• Spitfires and Hurricanes roar overhead to mark Battle of Britain anniversary

  18-08-2015 18:45
  
  The skies above southern Britain echoed to the sound of massed Spitfire and Hurricane fighters today, 75 years after they defended the country in the Battle of Britain.
  
  Read more

• Sir Edward Heath intelligence passed on to Wiltshire Police

  18-08-2015 18:45
  
  A police force has found no evidence to link Sir Edward Heath to a crime in its area.
  
  Read more

• Little Mix hope to give wings to Peta campaign against circus cruelty

  18-08-2015 18:45
  
  Little Mix have joined forces with animal rights group Peta in a bid to end the suffering of animals in circuses.
  
  Read more

• David Oyelowo: Brad Pitt was so angry I didn't receive an Oscar for Selma he ended up championing me in his new show Nightingale

  18-08-2015 18:43
  It was probably the biggest shock of the Oscar season. When the nominations for the 2015 Academy Awards were announced at the beginning of this year the omission of David Oyelowo for his superb, measured turn as civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jnr in Selma was greeted with a chorus of disbelief.
  
  Read more

• Labour leadership race: Corbyn win is 'done deal' predicts Paddy Power, as it pays out on bets

  18-08-2015 18:31
  
  Jeremy Corbyn’s victory in the Labour race can already be considered a “done deal” almost a month before the winner is announced – at least according to a bookmaker who has started paying out on bets.
  
  Read more

• Advert asks for actors to promote millionaire footballer Steven Gerrard’s autobiography book - for no pay

  18-08-2015 18:31
  
  Two actors were sought to appear in an advert for millionaire footballer Steven Gerrard's new autobiography – for no pay.
  
  Read more

• Stories In Welfare Advice Leaflet Were Made Up

  18-08-2015 18:26
  
  Welfare officials have admitted that stories in a Government leaflet offering advice for benefits claimants were made up. The document contained pictures of a man and a woman next to what was purported to be their positive personal accounts of the sanctions regime. But the two claimants, "Sarah" and "Zac", were fictional and their quotes were invented.
  
  Read more

• High street fashion chief at the centre of murder investigation after an intruder dies in his home

  18-08-2015 18:25
  
  Richard Glanville, 60, was arrested at his Essex farmhouse last month after Ricci Gallagher, was found there with head injuries.
  
  Read more

Follow @GeneralnewsUK on Twitter!