Advertisement London is the third-most monitored city in the world and the only one in the top 10 outside China, a new study says. The UK capital has nearly 630,000 surveillance cameras, or 67 cameras for every 1,000 people - a higher level of monitoring than in Beijing, Shanghai or …...Read More

Outbreaks of Covid-like illnesses in care homes are at their highest levels in a month, data from Public Health England show. In the week from July 13 to 19 there were 145 outbreaks of 'acute respiratory infections' in homes around the country, up from 128 the week before. An outbreak …...Read More

Jenny Yoksha, 24, waived her anonymity to reveal her ordeal at the hands of a paedophile A furious grooming victim who was duped into having sex with a man when she was aged just 13 has spoken of her disgust after he was given a suspended jail sentence. Bravely waiving …...Read More

'Baby of the House' Labour MP Nadia Whittome, 24, has launched an attack on free speech by saying the 'very act of debate is a rollback of equality' in an article about trans rights. The MP for Nottingham East wrote a column for The Independent which was published yesterday, titled: …...Read More

A married police officer who took a picture of his genitals while dressed in uniform and sent it to a woman he met on duty at a road accident has been sacked. PC Toby Rideout, who was accused of 'abusing his position' by embarking on a relationship with the woman, …...Read More

Struggling small business owners are begging NHS workers to stop asking for discounts because they can no longer afford to provide them. Some food retailers claim to have received up to 100 requests for deductions on bills throughout lockdown, reports the BBC. And one marketing consultant claims she has been …...Read More

Advertisement Striding along, hopeful of Olympics success, this newly colourised picture of Team GB in 1908 has been released to coincide with the first day of what should have been the Tokyo 2020 Games. The image is one of a series of iconic photos from former Olympics transformed into colour …...Read More

Around 50 inmates have escaped from a prison in South Africa and reportedly hijacked nearby cars. The prisoners, who reportedly broke out of Malmesbury Prison in Western Cape, South Africa, were filmed running around near a Toyota dealership. An alert was issued to warn people about the escaped inmates but …...Read More

Masks are now compulsory in shops up and down the country, but one man made a mockery of the new rules today by fashioning one into a G-string and strutting along Oxford Street in the nude. Passersby in the capital looked on bemused as the naked man confidently made his …...Read More

On the day of our micro staycation, six of us began walking along the Hudson River Greenway with our masks and strollers: Myself, my wife, our daughter, our friends and their 3-year-old son. We were thrilled to be going somewhere beyond the confines of our immediate surroundings, even though it …...Read More