Mark Plimmer spent Christmas Eve in 2023 sinking shots in multiple pubs before driving home that night. On his way home, he crashed into a vehicle and killed a man.

IAN BIRRELL meets the battle-weary and traumatised citizens of Kyiv as they face a fourth Christmas at war.

Armed Forces minister Al Carns said the country was on a 'war footing' and warned that the 'shadow of war was at Europe's door'.

The King, 77, was diagnosed with an undisclosed form of the disease in early 2024 and has been receiving weekly treatment ever since.

In a speech in Berlin, Rutte said too many allies of the military alliance did not feel the urgency of Russia's threat in Europe.

Lisa Regan, 53, laundered money made through her cocaine empire through a cafe in Swansea alongside her ex-husband Phillip Jones, 44.

María Corina Machado appeared in public for the first time in 11 months Thursday when she emerged from a hotel balcony in Norway's capital and waved to an emotional crowd.

Furious peers voted down a last-minute change to the Employment Rights Bill that could open the door to unlimited unfair dismissal payouts.

The Labour Government, with Streeting's blessing, is pursuing a dystopian experiment to test puberty-blockers on healthy children who think they were 'born in the wrong body'.

Campaigners say the testing of the controversial drugs on gender-questioning youngsters is unlawful and unethical, as the Tories branded the NHS-backed experiment as 'grotesque'.

Promotional clips of women posted without their consent are being used by criminal gangs to advertise their services providing migration routes to the UK and Europe, Daily Mail has found.

The much-loved Confessions of a Shopaholic writer passed away on Wednesday following a three-year battle with brain cancer.

The victim was walking between Old Run View and West Grange Road at 10.50am on Monday when the incident occurred, West Yorkshire Police said.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have issued a message for Australia.

Carmela has a rare muscle-wasting condition, which affects just one in a million children across the world.

The US and Ukraine will hold talks today on a draft peace plan to end the war with Russia, Volodymyr Zelensky has confirmed.

Rachel Reeves insisted she was 'frustrated' and is now 'doing something about it' by launching an official probe into who was responsible.

A baby boy born in the UK between 2022 and 2024 can expect to live for an average of 79.1 years, compared to 83 for a baby girl.

Bryce Tate, 15, was found dead November 6 after receiving a text message from an unknown number. His father said his son is just one of many teens being targeted in a sickening scheme.

On October 7, 2023, Batsheva Yahalomi faced an impossible decision - one no mother should ever have to make.

Did Nostradamus and Baba Vanga accurately predict the fortunes and tragedies visited upon the Earth's population in 2025?

Former college secretary Rita Wagstaff and her husband bought the Nuneaton, Warwickshire, property in 1984 and set about restoring it to its former grandeur.

That video of a 15-year-old schoolgirl being frogmarched by two Afghan asylum seekers is not only every parent's nightmare, it also exposes a stark reality politicians have tried to conceal.

Donald Trump to Europe: 'You're on your own, losers. Bye!' That's the blunt message at the heart of his administration's new National Security Strategy.

Even by the desperately grim standards that are becoming all too familiar, the case of two teenage migrants jailed for raping a 15-year-old girl marks a new low in depravity.

Sharon Osbourne has revealed her husband Ozzy's poignant final ever words to her as she recounted the heartbreaking details from the day he died for the first time.

Daniel Elkeles, boss of NHS Providers, said Britons should start wearing a face mask on public transport and in offices if they are coughing and sneezing but are well enough to go to work.

Sultani Bakatash, 28, was arrested in the early hours of Sunday following a report of rape. He will appear at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court at 9.45am on Tuesday.

Horrific details of the victim's ordeal were revealed in court as Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niazal, both 17, were jailed for the attack in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.

The BBC has been bombarded with complaints just minutes into the Doctor Who spin-off series, The War Between The Land And The Sea.

With planning down to the last detail, the robbers usually consist of at least three members: A 'spotter', a 'look out' and a snatcher.

Paulius Krilavicius, 45, tried to pull the victim onto his lap and ran his hands up her leg during the flight from Newark, New Jersey, to London Heathrow on January 8, 2025.

With planning down to the last detail, the robbers usually consist of at least three members: A 'spotter', a 'look out' and a snatcher.

I use the word 'trial' but, let's be honest, this is an experiment. A state-sanctioned exercise which, no matter how it is dressed up, risks causing profound and lifelong harm.

The teacher, who chose to remain anonymous, was suspended and sacked after he reprimanded students for washing their feet in the sinks in the boys' toilets, is is reported.