Britain's high streets once boasted a cornucopia of independent shops where you could buy everything from starched white collars to a butchered half pig.These pictures reveal they are long gone.

The terrified man dodges repeated thrusts and jumps through window in Leeds. Attackers then turn on a second man who they batter to the ground before they make off themselves in a second car.

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Joshua Jackson is expecting his first child with wife Jodie Turner-Smith.

Start queuing for the Dacia Sandero - it’s Britain’s cheapest car at less than £6,000. Renault bought the Romanian car-maker in 1999 as its ‘budget’ brand and the UK market is the final piece of the jigsaw.

She's currently enjoying something of a career resurgence, after recently releasing new music for the first time in more than four years.

Vanguard says the new self-invested personal pension scheme is designed to cut the 'cost and complexity' of saving for retirement.

No frills cremations cost around £1,600 on average, and ashes are returned to a family afterwards, allowing them to organise a personal memorial at a time of their choosing.

The Britain's Got Talent judge, 49, and the Pussycat Doll, 38, put on typically playful displays as they larked around their empty office at Global Studios in a bid to cheer up the nation on Tuesday.

Shutting Floyd Mayweather up is not easy. But pop star Rihanna did her best to keep the Money Man quiet as the pair sat next to one another at the BET Awards on Sunday night.

The 20-year-old was caught on camera hosting a house party at his Cheshire apartment despite the coronavirus lockdown - and has also failed to impress on the field.

Martinez has been one of the stars of the season in Serie A, forming a highly effective strike partnership with Romelu Lukaku which has thrust Inter into a title fight.

The 21-year-old defensive midfielder's contract with Ligue 2 outfit Le Havre expires in June, meaning that he has been able to negotiate with other clubs since January.

Cars passing through Melbourne's Domain Tunnel slowed to a crawl on Saturday afternoon as an incident in the underpass blocked one of the lanes. 

Dylan Nacass, 23, managed to escape with only minor lacerations after a shark latched onto his leg while he was surfing at Bell's Beach in regional Victoria on Friday afternoon.

The 43-year-old woman was cycling down Chapel St in St Kilda, Melbourne about 5.20am on March 17.

Last month, former Big Brother star Skye Wheatley announced she's expecting her first child with boyfriend Lachlan Waugh. 

Married At First Sight's Jo McPharlin showcased her staggering weight loss as she promoted Jules Robinson's new shapewear brand Figur on Saturday. 

The accused pinned the man to the car and told him he was a 'cannibal' and would rape, murder and eat him if he told anyone what had happened.

Ryan Donaldson 33, from Tampa, Florida, created the ingenious gin delivery system so he could enjoy a drink with his friends at a safe distance during the coronavirus lockdown.

Anna Chancellor’s partner Redha Debbah was in their kitchen in west London when somebody rang from New York to say she’d been rushed to hospital with viral meningitis.

The actor and director became a household name on the big screen after appearing to huge critical acclaim as Hans Gruber, Bruce Willis’s sardonic adversary, in Die Hard.

In a 2011 interview the actor, who died last week aged 69, said author Rowling had given him a 'tiny, little, left of field' detail to help his portrayal of antihero Professor Severus Snape.

Taking to Twitter on Tuesday - the anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts - she wrote: 'Please don't start flame wars over it, but this year I'd like to apologise for killing (whispers)... Snape.'

The actor, who died in 2016 aged 69 from pancreatic cancer, reveals his misgivings in his archive of personal papers covering more than 40 years on stage and screen.

An Australian who was drugged and raped in Korea said she has felt trapped in a 'never ending nightmare' since having to start an online campaign to push police to take her case seriously.

Joanne Lees has revealed the chilling moment she realised police were treating her as a potential suspect in the case of her murdered boyfriend Peter Falconio, who was killed in 2001 in outback Australia.

A jeweller who started her business at just 21 from the kitchen table of her parents' home in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire has revealed how some of the world's biggest stars now wear her designs.

Daisy Ridley proved that she has the force as she turned heads sweeping down the red carpet for the British Academy Film Awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Speaking on the French show Quotidien the actress and humourist Mimie Mathy, 62, addressed controversy over Roman Polanski and said rape accusations don't 'take away from his talent'.

EXCLUSIVE: Dan Evans will team up with Kieron Vorster, a no-nonsense South African whose clients have included ex-top-10 player Wayne Ferreira and ex-Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech.

The 71-year-old multi-millionaire flew on a private jet to his £3 million villa on the Algarve where he said he would spend 14 days in quarantine although restrictions will actually be lifted in three.

Behold Pico Cao Grande, a 1,200ft-tall snake-infested volcanic plug that rises out of snake-infested jungle on São Tomé off the west coast of Africa.

Once a crucial cog in the wheel of British industry, Britain's 2,200 navigable miles of canals make for a brilliant staycation. Here Joanna Tweedy rounds up the best waterways to explore.

One day in the future we'll be able to enjoy sunny days by the seaside again. Here's our pick of some of the best coastal towns, from bohemian Brighton to marvellous Margate.

The customer had reportedly returned to his local Coles supermarket in Adelaide three times in one day in the hopes of snagging the highly sought-after product.

The 17-year-old girl went to Mount Gambier Hospital, four hours south of Adelaide, on New Year's Eve after she was allegedly raped.

A man posing as a police officer raped two women who were staying in a coronavirus isolation hotel in Adelaide.

The Adelaide grocery store, who wished to remain anonymous, said the man approached them after he hoarded the product amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Adelaide-based Drakes Supermarkets director John-Paul Drake said a customer at one of his stores attempted to get a refund on 150 32-packs of toilet paper and 150 units of hand santitiser.

In a bombshell interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday night, Sainsbury claimed a Brazilian drug lord named 'Angelo' engineered the ill-fated smuggling operation.

The small town of Andamooka, 600km north of Adelaide in far north South Australia. had several properties and plots of land for sale from $20,000 and up to $25,000.

As a multiple victim of the implosion of the Woodford investment funds, facing heavy losses, I can't but think that the response of Bailey and the FCA to early warnings was dilatory and timid.

An astonishing four-minute 'soundscape', compiled from the archives of the Imperial War Museums, will be available for us all to listen to on the VE Day Bank Holiday.

MATTHEW LAMBERT AT WIMBLEDON: The American came into Wimbledon having not played since the French Open, when she was hampered by knee problems.

Fabio Capello has given a frank account of England's 2010 World Cup campaign and has admitted that it pained him to put David James in goal following Robert Green's error against the United States.

There have been calls for players to give up a chunk of their wages in recent days, with the Premier League also suggesting that they should take a pay cut of 30 per cent amid the coronavirus crisis.

Describing itself as 'a Great British institution', the Twitter account Escaped Trolley shares images of dumped shoppers around the country and turns them into works of art.

A new report, from trade magazine The Grocer, found the average cost of a Christmas shop at Asda, was £6.33 less than its nearest rival, making it the cheapest UK supermarket to shop from.

The average UK trolley of 53 branded groceries cost an average £107.01 over the year, according to Which? The trolley cost 64p more at Asda and £2.12 more at Morrisons.

The study by trade magazine The Grocer compared a shopping basket of 33 typical grocery items, such as skimmed milk, sliced bread, baked beans and dried pasta.