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Loughborough Junction: 3 people killed when hit by train in London

The three bodies were found close to Loughborough Junction near Brixton shortly after 7.30am today and sources claim paint canisters were found nearby.




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Tube passenger hunted over knife threat to mother and baby revealed

Millicent Barnes, from South London, was said to have launched a furious verbal attack on a family, including a one-year-old child, before implying she had a weapon on a Central Line train.




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Planned 24-hour Tube strike on the Piccadilly Line is called off

Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union on the Piccadilly Line, which links central London to Heathrow Airport, were due to strike from noon tomorrow - but this has been suspended.




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15 fascinating little known London Underground facts revealed 

We put 15 questions about the Tube to its Head of Network Delivery, Richard Jones. Here we reveal his answers – the inside track on the London Underground from a top insider.




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Epileptic father-of-four killed by a London Underground train and lay undiscovered for five hours

Alfonso Sinclair, 29, had just suffered a seizure before he wandered on to the tracks at Warren Street station. A coroner's report found that TfL missed 'potential opportunities to prevent death'.




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Troubled Uber faces crisis talks in a second city as Manchester considers banning the taxi firm

Manchester's leaders accused the US tech firm of 'flooding' the city with sub-standard drivers and even said its licensing standards were being 'undermined'.




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Maria Sharapova launches candy collection in London ahead of Wimbledon

The tennis star, 32, maintained her busy schedule as she launched hew new candy collection Sugarpova at Kingdom of Sweets in London on Thursday evening.




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Young Brit Harriet Dart feels at home in SW19 so Wimbledon should beware

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Harriet Dart met one of her heroes earlier this year. It proved to be one of those encounters that validated an old phrase. After losing to Maria Sharapova, the experience was priceless.




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Maria Sharapova retires from first-round Wimbledon clash against Pauline Parmentier with injury

KIERAN GILL ON COURT NO 2 AT WIMBLEDON: Sharapova was trailing 4-6, 7-6, 5-0 when she decided to call it a day, complaining about a left arm injury.




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Maria Sharapova sizzles in a red bikini while vacationing in Italy after wrist injury at Wimbledon 

Maria Sharapova found a good way to recover as she set off for a Mediterranean vacation on the coast of Italy. The tennis star 32, was seen lounging sea side in a red string bikini on Thursday.




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Serena Williams's husband accused of thinly-veiled doping dig at Maria Sharapova

Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian nwas accused of making a thinly-veiled dig at Maria Sharapova after eagle-eyed Twitter users spotted him wearing an anti drug t-shirt in the stands of the US Open.




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Maria Sharapova's Australian Open match is STOPPED as players choke on smoke-filled air

Novak Djokovic, says the Australian Open in Melbourne may need to be postponed as players continue to struggle to compete due to the smoke-filled air.




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Hillary Clinton has planned a fireworks-filled election victory party in Manhattan

Hillary Clinton has already organised an Election Night celebration party in New York City complete with fireworks which would kick off only 30 minutes after the polls close.




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Hillary Clinton pledges to 'make history together' while Donald Trump blasts 'political establishment' 

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump released their final campaign ads on Monday night ahead of America going to the polls on Tuesday. The videos are remarkably different from one another.




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DEBORAH ROSS: I marvelled. I winced. Now I'm a fashion reality addict

This week, a new thriller and a competitive reality show seeking a hot new fashion designer that, in its first moments, comes over as a cross between The Great British Sewing Bee and The Apprentice




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The Queen's cheeky sense of humour revealed

The Queen's cheeky sense of humour saved her from a potentially awkward moment with the former French president - and his wife, royal author Adam Helliker has claimed.




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The Queen is called 'Sharon' by protection officers, royal aide claims

The Queen's unusual code name has been revealed, according to a royal source who claims that when the royal is working she is given the alternative moniker 'Sharon', or often called just 'S' by aides.




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Marks & Spencer poaches Tesco executive Richard Price to head up its embattled clothing division

Sales at the UK retail giant's clothing and homeware section slumped by over 5 per cent in the past six months, prompting a shake-up at the top of the management.




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Nigerian inmate in Chinese jail who scribbled plea on Tesco Christmas card says he wrote in 10 boxes

The man, named only as Antoine, who got out the prison two months ago, heard one of his notes had been found by Florence Widdicombe in London (pictured) after he returned home to Nigeria.




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Tesco shopper is baffled to find £1.10 chocolate bars on display in locked 'thief-proof' boxes 

A Tesco store in Bristol has stored 100g bars of Aero mint, Dairy Milk and other chocolate bars in 'thief'-proof boxes'. It comes two months after Tesco kept Cathedral City cheese in boxes.




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Shoplifter, 33, banned from every shop in England jailed after she stole £60 of make-up

Anna Burns appeared at Swindon Crown Court, in Wiltshire, for another offence, and when she was bailed she walked 750 yards to a Boots shop and stole £60 of make up.




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Tesco manager jailed for six years after dumping man's body in woodland when he died during chemsex

Hiran Chauhan, 24, went to the home of Neil Cuckson, 32, after they chatted on dating app Grindr and discussed taking drugs, Manchester Crown Court heard.




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UK coronavirus death toll soars by 56 in a day to total of 233 as youngest victim is revealed as 41

The total deaths in England rose by 53 as a 41-year-old is thought to be the youngest victim in Britain since the outbreak began. The total number of confirmed cases in the UK has hit 5,018.




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Paedophile Travelex manager at Tesco Rochdale stole £70,000 on Christmas Eve and fled to the US

A former junior football club secretary abused a 12-year-old boy, then stole £70,000 and fled to America. David Aspden stole from a Travelex in Tesco, Rochdale in December 2018 and spent five months abroad.




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Police break up crowd not following social distancing rules at vigil for father killed in crash 

Mourners gathered in Gorton, Manchester, pictured, to pay their respects to crash victim Clive Pinnock, who died after being hit by a BMW in the city on Wednesday.




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Would-be supermarket queue-jumper tackled to ground and arrested after abusing staff and customers

Police were called to reports of someone 'behaving aggressively' at the shop in Middleton. Officers arrested a 21-year-old man on suspicion of theft in connection with an earlier incident.




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Horrified mother-of-one, 36, finds dirty blue surgical glove inside sealed pack of potatoes

Mother-of-one Biba Kutisova, 36, from Salisbury, set about immediately washing the potatoes to avoid any possible contamination from coronavirus.




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Police called to seize two club cars worth over £100k each from ex-Charlton chairman Matt Southall

SIMON JONES: The ugly row behind Charlton Athletic's ownership has taken another twist after police were called in to recoup two club cars from former chairman Matt Southall.




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Britain's UFO hotspots revealed: Official RAF documents show locations of 626 UK 'sightings'

London tops the list with 54 sightings in a year which have been reported by air traffic control employees, pilots, police officers and journalists. Kent comes in second with 30 sightings.




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'Extreme' speeding soars by 142% in London with 10 people killed in road crashes during lockdown

Officers have issued more than 4,000 enforcement notices in the capital since emergency measures came in on March 23 - a 71 per cent increase on the total of just over 2,300 handed out in 2019.




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Notre Dame fire could not be controlled any quicker, says US fire chief

The fire at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris began around 7pm on Monday and the building was quickly evacuated. A firefighter explained the vast technical difficulties in tackling the blaze.




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Friend of billionaire who pledged €100m to Notre Dame says donations should be 90% tax deductible

French billionaire François-Henri Pinault, who owns firm behind Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent and is married to Salma Hayek, pledged €100m to Notre Dame.




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Rio Olympic winner Laura Trott defends her 'bitter' sister live on TV after she was trolled

Cyclist Laura Trott, 24, has spoken in support of her sister after accusations from the public that Emma Trott was 'jealous' and 'bitter' over her sibling's Olympic win.




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Olympic winner Laura Trott's sister gets called 'bitter' and 'jealous' after TV interview

Speaking on ITV's Good Morning Britain today, Emma Trott, the older sister of four-time Olympic gold medallist Laura seemed underwhelmed by her 24-year-old sibling’s achievements.




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ISIS leader Charaffe al Mouadan linked to Paris attacks mastermind is killed in Syria

Charaffe al Mouadan, a French Syrian-based ISIS leader with 'direct link' to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the man behind the Paris attacks was killed in an air strike on Christmas Eve.




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#Jesuisbruxelles: Social media pays tribute to 34 victims killed in Belgian attacks

In a stirring sign of mass defiance, thousands have posted images that show the boy from Brussels' Manneken Pis statue - who is depicted urinating into a fountain - relieving himself on ISIS jihadists.




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Sheffield bar under fire for selling blue, white and red shots called a PARIS BOMB

The Sheffield bar, called Paris, advertised the drink on their Instagram account (pictured). The bar refused to back down despite a backlash from students speaking out in protest against the name.




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Woman who lied that she had been injured during Paris attacks is JAILED

Laura Ouandjli admitted lying about being in the Carillon bar in Paris, where 15 people were murdered by ISIS terrorists on November 13 last year and has been jailed for a year.




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Mercedes E Class 'damaged by disgruntled worker' in Leeds

An E-Class Mercedes appeared to be damaged by a disgruntled employee who spray painted abusive messages onto the car's bodywork in Leeds City Centre earlier today.




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Leeds schoolboy who killed teacher showed knife to pupils

Pulp Fiction-obsessed Will Cornick, now 19, is serving a minimum 20-year sentence for stabbing Ann Maguire during a Spanish lesson at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds.




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Leeds teacher Ann Maguire's last words revealed

Ann Maguire, 61, was fatally knifed by then 15-year-old Will Cornick on April 28, 2014 after he thrust a 34cm blade into her seven times - one blow slicing her jugular vein.




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Sinead Wooding called police before she was murdered

Sinead Wooding, from Leeds, dialed 999 after her Akshar Ali, 27, had banned her from seeing friends and family, but by the time police arrived, she had been brutally murdered, a court heard.




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Five people are killed in Leeds stolen car crash

Five people are reported to have been killed after a stolen car crashed into a tree in Leeds. The group is said to have included three children and two boys are in custody over the incident.




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Cumbrian 'Far-Right extremist' Googled how to be terrorist

Ethan Stables, 19, did admit to possession of explosives under suspicious circumstances when he appeared for a hearing a Leeds Crown Court yesterday.




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Female paedophile is jailed for seven years

Michaela Sheldrake, 41, was jailed for seven years at Leeds Crown Court after being caught with a huge hoard of child porn. She had also taken hundreds of indecent pictures of a girl under 16.




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Dog killed man a week after police handed it back to owner

Leeds Crown Court heard that David Ellam, 52, died after he was attacked by a the dog called Alex. Pictured is the dog's owner Aaron Joseph, who denies being in control of a dangerous dog.




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Leeds girl, 8, got nine stitches after being mauled by dog

Mia Garforth-Crook, eight, was left terrified with blood pouring from her face after she was mauled by a Husky-type dog in the village of Roberttown, near Leeds in West Yorkshire.




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Body of teenage boy is pulled from River Aire in Leeds

Panicked onlookers called the emergency services at 6.45pm and reported that the teenager had failed to return to shore at the river near Cardigan Fields, Kirkstall (divers pictured on the scene last night).




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Leeds landlord jailed for a year after two children die in inferno

Emma Taylor told a court how she has been left devastated after her sons Logan, 3, and Jake, 2 (pictured together), died in a fire at their home in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.




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Couple jailed after luring daughter to Bangladesh for forced marriage

Leeds Crown Court heard the victim was taken to the south Asian country on the pretence that she and her family would celebrate Eid together, but was then told by her parents that they had set up a wedding.