A young mother claims that she was subjected to a vicious assault by an Uber driver who called her a ‘black c***’, dragged her from the car and punched her so hard that she ‘flew down the road’. Paramedic Taleka White, 27, from Kensington in London says that a driver who was ‘quite polite’ at the start of a journey from Croydon in the early hours of Sunday morning, became aggressive after being accused of taking a wrong turn.
A hero sports teacher helped a 15-year-old who was stabbed after a gang of youths rushed the school, his sister said. The teacher was first on the scene after the boy was knifed in an attack at Southfields Academy in south-west London last night. His sister, who didn't want to be named, said on Twitter: "Thank God my brother was there."
AN enormous sinkhole has appeared in a quiet residential street — leaving one blind 80-year-old traumatised at the prospect of being forced to move into a care home. As families in the St Albans cul-de-sac were evacuated by emergency services, Frank Kalcozi was reduced to tears when social workers told him he may lose his independence.
A Turkish man whose body was found wrapped in an Ikea bag in Epping Forest was a former gangster who was acquitted of murder , it was revealed today. Hidir Aksakal, 53, stood trial at the Old Bailey in connection with the gangland hit on victim Bulent Giritli, who was shot twice in the head at point-blank range in the backyard of a Turkish cafe in Tottenham.
A Kurdish mother successfully reunited with her husband and teenage son has hailed the Islington legal charity which assisted her for giving her a “new life”. The 56-year-old mum of four, known only as Mrs B, fled to Islington because she faced a possible death sentence for her political beliefs in her native Iran.
A massive blunder has seen the sensitive personal details of 15,000 Hackney residents – including address, sexuality and rent accounts – leaked online.
Many students face financial concerns at university but for student mum-to-be, Isobel Dixon, money worries became serious. Fiona Parker finds out why. Any university student can face financial worries while studying, but for student mum-to-be, Isobel Dixon, her greatest concern was "slipping through the net" of the student loan system.
Anybody who sits down with a pack of cards around a pint glass is well aware of what they are letting themselves in for. However, an unsuspecting Facebook user who is “tagged” in a nomination on their friend’s status may feel a little less prepared. Anna, a student from Sheffield shared from her Twitter account a picture of a pint of beer mixed with wine, cocoa powder and topped with marshmallows.
We are obsessed with sex. Through printed and online media, fiction, documentary and pornography, almost every taboo has been broken. The message is clear, in order to fully understand the act and subsequently to perform to the best of our abilities we must see, touch and shag everything as frequently as our busy lives will allow.
Cervical Cancer Awareness Week: One in four York women not attending life-saving screenings. 12:50pm Monday 20th January 2014 in Health, Beauty & Wellbeing. As Cervical Cancer Awareness Week begins, Fiona Parker speaks to a doctor and cancer survivor to find out why a simple screening test might just save your life.
£370m spent on fixed-odds betting terminals across the region. PEOPLE in our region are gambling more than £370 million a year on instant betting machines, shocking figures reveal. York Central MP Hugh Bayley called the fixed-odds betting terminals, or FOBTs, the “crack cocaine of gambling”, as MPs prepared to today debate their use in the House of Commons.
Raised by Wolves, Caitlin Moran's semi-autobiographical series, is due to air this Christmas; so how did undergraduate, Helen Monks, get to play her idol? Fiona Parker finds out.
The NUS and Students’ Unions from across the UK have spoken out against a new site which uses Facebook profiles to rank students’ attractiveness, without their approval.
