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Jan 10, 2025 | 
thescottishsun.co.uk | Andy Robinson
A FOOTBALLER saved his side’s fairytale cup run — by fixing a broken floodlight. Liam Smith, who works as an electrician, used his tool kit to help Sittingbourne FC get to the fifth round of the FA Trophy for the first time in their 140-year history. They were drawing 0-0 at home with favourites Salisbury when a corner of The Staxson Stadium in Kent was plunged into darkness at half-time. With the match in danger of being abandoned, Liam, 24, was urged by team-mates to fix the faulty floodlight.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
saferinternet.org.uk | Andy Robinson
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
thesun.ie | Arthur Edwards |Andy Robinson
THE late Queen sounded increasingly Cockney through her 70-year reign, according to research. Experts say certain words evolved more of an East End twang than her traditional “received pronunciation”. Now Essex University linguist Dr Amanda Cole has linked the gradual changes to the accent migrating from its traditional London roots to the surrounding Home Counties. She said: “It was less Queen’s English and a little bit more Cockney.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
the-sun.com | Andy Robinson
THE late Queen sounded increasingly Cockney through her 70-year reign, according to research. Experts say certain words evolved more of an East End twang than her traditional “received pronunciation”. Now Essex University linguist Dr Amanda Cole has linked the gradual changes to the accent migrating from its traditional London roots to the surrounding Home Counties. She said: “It was less Queen’s English and a little bit more Cockney.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
thescottishsun.co.uk | Andy Robinson
THE HOUSE of horrors where an evil teacher murdered her boyfriend before burying him in the garden has been put up for sale. Fiona Beal, 50, stabbed Nick Billingham, 42, in October or November 2021 after detailing her gruesome plans in a confession journal. Detectives found the Man U fan hidden under building materials and compost at their terraced home in Kingsley, Northampton, in March 2022.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
thesun.ie | Andy Robinson
ExclusiveThe latest total figure of 328 injury crashes is more than double the 156 recorded in 2013, of which five resulted in deathMORE mobility scooter users were killed in crashes last year than ever before — prompting calls for tougher safety rules. A record 16 died in fatal collisions in 2023 while 90 others were left seriously injured. Figures from the Department for Transport show there were another 222 prangs where riders suffered minor injuries.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
thescottishsun.co.uk | Andy Robinson
ExclusiveThe married dad-of-two is also separately accused of breaching the Met’s social media and online rulesA SINGING detective quit his job amid claims he played a pub gig impersonating Frank Sinatra and Michael Bublé while on duty. Met Police sergeant John Sessions, 50, was allegedly paid for the Christmas-themed performance held in a bar on December 23, 2022. But he did not ask for permission or tell colleagues he was on stage while supposedly working, which the force claims was “dishonest”.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
thesun.ie | Andy Robinson
ExclusiveCouzens, 52, worked with the force before he joined the Met Police and later murdered and raped Sarah Everard, in 2021FIVE officers from the special police force which murderer Wayne Couzens used to work for are being investigated over sharing offensive material on WhatsApp. A chief inspector, an inspector, a sergeant and two constables with the Civil Nuclear Constabulary are suspected of being in the online chat.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
thesun.ie | Andy Robinson |Rob Pattinson
WOKE killjoys have scrapped the bonfire at a fireworks show. Council chiefs axed it from this Saturday’s event claiming it is too smoky. The move by Labour-run Erewash Borough Council for the Starry Skies Spectacular in Long Eaton, Derbys, has been slammed by residents. Nicholas Gaunt, 37, described it as “wokery gone mad”. He added: “What kind of bonfire night is it without a bonfire?
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
the-sun.com | Andy Robinson
SPECIALIST security is set to guard Mike Lynch’s sunken superyacht over fears rogue governments may want to plunder it for sensitive secrets. Italian prosecutors reckon there could be classified information locked inside the £30million Bayesian which sunk during a storm off Sicily on August 22. Salvage experts believe passcodes could be among data held on two super-encrypted hard drives stored in on-board watertight safes.
