Monday, September 30, 2013

Ex-international hockey player stole £450 from Sainsbury's in self-service scam by scanning his groceries as loose onions

Nicholas Long, 25, from Chatham, Kent, used the scam 20 times in three months at Sainsbury's to save money on his shopping, the Old Bailey heard.

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Rise of the grumpy grannies: Third of men say old age is best time of their lives... but only a quarter of women agree

A study by Stannah stairlifts questioned whether the archetypal grumpy grandpa like One Foot in the Grave's Victor Meldrew really exists.

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Parents made to feel fee-paying schools are morally wrong and that private schools 'create social lepers', warns leading headteacher

Dr Tim Hands, Master of Magdalen College School in Oxford, said there is a view that being privately educated is damaging to a child.

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Elderly in UK worse off than in Ireland: Nation fails to make top ten in league measuring wellbeing of older people

The table, drawn up by academics for the charity HelpAge International, showed the top three countries were Sweden, Norway and Germany.

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Doubts over verdict, says Karunanidhi

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam president M. Karunanidhi on Monday said legal experts had raised doubts whether a verdict delivered by a judge appointed on contract basis in a sensitive case could be acc...

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Delhi Schools violating RTE norms: Survey

Glaring infrastructural gaps and denial of admission were major issues noted in the study

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Consider extending tenure of special judge, says SC

Taking into consideration the fact that the evidence in the disproportionate assets cases against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and three others runs into 34,000 pages, the Supreme Court...

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Mac on... Osborne's 'Work for the Dole' scheme

'Apart from fish fingers and bacon butties, has one got any other delicacies in one's repertoire?'

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Day in pictures

Images from India and around the world

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News in pictures

Images from news events of the day.

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Sports in pictures

Images from sports events of the day

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Brazen fly-tippers mar picturesque country lane by dumping a BOAT on the roadside

The vessel was dumped in the entrance to a farmer's field in Holtsmere End Lane, just outside Hemel Hempstead.

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Markets hit as US faces shutdown in budget deal battle

Stock markets fell around the world as 800,000 public service staff in America were faced with the prospect of unpaid leave or having to work for free, if a deal between the two parties is not reached.

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Breast cancer: treatments and changes to diet will mean 95% of women are cured by 2050

Academics from 30 universities drew up an action plan to tackle disease and claimed that by 2025 the number of women developing the illness will drop by a fifth.

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Disaster for savers as rates hit 0.4 per cent: Bank of England lending scheme blamed for fall

Although homeowners are benefiting from low interest rates, a Bank of England report yesterday laid bare the pain being inflicted on Britain's savers.

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Stress in middle age raises dementia risk: Scientists' warning after 45-year study of women

They found conditions such as Alzheimer's may be linked to the amount of stress experienced up to four decades earlier.

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Golden age for fashion is 33: Men and women both say this is the year they feel most stylish

People only become comfortable with their personal style at the age of 33, the same age as Kelly Brook and Katherine Jenkins, pictured, research has revealed.

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Please hold the line... the four little worlds that we always hate to hear: Waiting on the phone tops list of biggest bugbears

The survey from Barclays polled 2,000 irritable Brits to find out what every day occurrences rubbed them up the wrong way.

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Italy on the brink: Bonds and shares dive after Berlusconi orders five ministers to quit plunging government into chaos

Italian government bonds and shares dived on Monday after former premier Silvio Berlusconi ordered five ministers to quit destabilizing government.

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£1.7bn spent to stop foreign invaders killing off native British wildlife

BBC1's Countryfile said other major culprits include mink, which were imported from the US by fur farms but escaped to wreak havoc, and American signal crayfish.

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Tripe and Marmite top list of food we vow never to eat again after trying them once

The list of 'once, but never again' items was compiled by internet search engine Ask Jeeves, as they tried to find Britain's worst first impression.

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Theresa May: Tory migration curbs sabotaged by Lib Dems who then boasted about them in handbook

Immigration bonds was a policy in the last Tory manifesto, but the Lib Dems announced it was their idea, May said

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Vote Ukip and you'll put Ed in No 10, Boris tells the Tories: London Mayor warns Cameron to tackle party head on or risk defeat

Boris Johnson warned Tory supporters to end their flirtation with the UK Independence Party or watch Miliband 'sleepwalk' into Downing Street.

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George Osborne to freeze fuel duty until 2015 election

It will cost £750million to cancel the rise next September, which is the last of the annual above-inflation increases pencilled into the public finances by the previous Labour government.

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Do I detect a hint of Prime Ministerial ambition?

QUENTIN LETTS on a Chancellor's speech (minus the squeaky voice): Mostly it was about sticking to the economic plan, ignoring naysayers, staying centre-ground and being 'grown-up'.

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I love my husband but he'll NEVER live up to my father: A frank confession from a loving wife and doting daughter

JULIE COOK admits the comparisons between her beloved Cornel and father Derek extend way beyond tile grouting and assembling flat-pack furniture.

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Mums-to-be told it is safe to eat more oily fish after mercury level concerns

A large-scale British study has found fish accounted for only 7% of the toxic metal in a women's body, while other food and drink were responsible for 17%.

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'My grandfather would have shot me': Black granddaughter of notorious concentration camp 'butcher' seen in Schindler's List reveals horror at her family's Nazi past

Jennifer Teege, a German-Nigerian author, was shocked to discover that her grandfather was Amon Goeth, commandant of the Plaszow concentration camp.

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Julia Gillard: Former Australian PM lashes out at 'violent, ugly sexism' she encountered

Speaking at the Sydney Opera House, Miss Gillard said she felt 'murderous rage' at seeing the sexist cartoons and comments that had been made online about her.

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Start Your Senses Zebra toy recalled for cancer risk

In 1981, a criminal gang in Spain sold huge quantities of olive oil containing the chemical - a yellow dye - in a catastrophic food fraud that left 20,000 sick and 400 dead.

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Seven more years' pain, but tax cuts too: Chancellor voes to put Britain in the black by 2020

The Chancellor told the Tory party conference that Britain will face more austerity, but will reap rewards in the shape of tax cuts after the next election.

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Happiness of state pupils sacrificed in obsessive race for exam results, says leading headteacher

Dr Tim Hands described the reliance on school league tables as 'flawed' and accused the Government of using a 'dead restraining hand' when it came to education policy.

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Morrisons supermarket ask father-of-three aged FIFTY to prove he's over 18 while buying alcohol

Father-of-three Charles Brown (pictured), 50, from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, was asked to provide the ID by a female cashier at his local Morrison's store.

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'My heart attack was the best thing that ever happened to me': Obese mother, 43, drops from 17st to 11st after nearly dying aged 37

Lesley Pritchard, from Cheshire, was a size 24 when she had a heart attack. She was convinced her weight was to blame so requested gastric bypass surgery.

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Retired prison officer keeps 7ft crocodile in his detached bungalow in Kent

Chris Weller, 66, has spent more than £25,000 making his detached bungalow in Rochester, Kent, crocodile-friendly for his seven-year-old reptile Caesar.

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GPs surgeries open until 8pm every day in Tories' answer to out-of-hours care crisis

The Prime Minister will set out plans for the first wave of surgeries which will be open from 8am to 8pm every day, making it easier for patients who struggle to fit in visits with their family and work commitments.

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French Foreign Minister: Romania and Bulgaria should not be allowed into Schengen zone

Laurent Fabius said France was concerned Romanian and Bulgarian would not be able to police their own borders - allowing a massive influx of illegal immigrants unchecked into Europe.

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