Oliver Price

2 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Oliver Price

Petrol thefts have soared to an all-time high, figures suggest. MailOnline can reveal that 110,000 charges for alleged 'pump and dash' thefts were issued by two major fuel security firms last year. This marks a 20-fold rise in just six years. Industry bigwigs insist there has been genuine increase in drivers fleeing forecourts without paying, or 'bilking', especially in the wake of the cost of living crisis.

3 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Cameron Roy |Oliver Price

Deaths outnumber births in half of neighbourhoods, according to analysis that lays bare the 'alarming' drop in fertility rates. Some of the worst-hit areas across England and Wales are shrinking naturally at a pace of 5 per cent a year, in trends which have spooked experts. Parts of Wales, Merseyside, Devon, Dorset and Sussex are threatened by 'underpopulation', data suggests.

3 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Oliver Price |Elizabeth Haigh

Britain's railways are becoming increasingly unsafe as new data reveals serious offences such as sexual and violent crimes have soared to all-time highs. The country's rail network saw record levels of crime, with a total of 80,000 incidents recorded by British Transport Police in 2023-2024. Violent crimes and sex offences both soared to all-time highs and have more than doubled in the last ten years, with overall crime up 55 percent compared to 2014.

4 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Oliver Price |Annie Scales

The GP surgeries with the most unhelpful receptionists in England are today named and shamed. Find out exactly how yours fares with MailOnline's new search tool, which ranks all 6,200-plus practices across the country. Eight different factors are measured, including how helpful its receptionists are and whether it's easy to book an appointment over the phone. All the scores are judged by patients themselves, with tens of thousands quizzed across the country.

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Cameron Roy |Oliver Price

Three quarters of Britain's councils have seen a 100 per cent explosion in the rate of asylum seekers over the last decade. One has even witnessed a 600-fold increase, MailOnline analysis suggests. For every 10,000 residents in Northumberland, Government statistics show nearly 21 are now asylum seekers. The same authority housed just one in 2014, when modern records began, a rate of 0.03.