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The finance director of a company helping on the AstraZeneca vaccine drove miles to his second home to get better WiFi, it has been claimed. Lee Warren, who works for Cobra Biologics, a firm which signed a supply agreement with AstraZeneca to help manufacture the vaccine, was contacted by police in connection with an alleged […]

A banker says he lost his job after confronting a man who allegedly kicked a teenage girl in the face. Kizu Stanford claims he was let go by Lloyds Bank after a video of the bus confrontation went viral online. The 26-year-old was sitting on the bus in West Bromwich on October 1 last year […]

The Met Office has upgraded its severe weather warning for heavy snow as it warns vehicles could become stranded and rural communities become ‘cut off’ from the early hours of tomorrow. The amber alert – more severe than the more frequently issued yellow warnings – states “a band of heavy snow is likely to bring […]

A hands-on dad delivered his own daughter in his lounge in just 30 minutes – before an ambulance could arrive. Jack Dodd, 25, made sure baby Poppy arrived in the world safely when fiancée Katie Carver, 27, went into labour last week. He sprung into action as soon as Katie’s waters broke, dialling 999 but […]

A man suspected of snatching a five-year-old boy in front of his mother while out in a park is wanted by police. The youngster was approached by a man in broad daylight, who picked him up and ran a short distance before being confronted by his mum, police said. The child was then released unharmed […]

We are all, I think it’s safe to say, in some form or another, going through our own kind of personal darkness during this bleak, ­hopeless, protracted period. I cannot imagine, though, waking up each and every day knowing that I am going to be walking through the doors of hell each time I turn […]

A university student has defended a snowball fight which saw hundreds of young people break the national lockdown rules – saying it was “a laugh people needed”. The wintry gathering in Leed’s Hyde Park yesterday afternoon was organised on Facebook, but was widely criticised on social media amid concerns over lack of social distancing. Footage […]