CrossCountry cancels services on key routes after power cut in city centre. Train services across the UK have been cancelled after a power cut at CrossCountry’s control centre in Birmingham disrupted systems used to manage its railway network.According to CrossCountry, the outage has affected several systems at its control centre, with the operator cancelling or…
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham. Tributes are being paid to two police officers who were among seven people killed in a head-on collision on the A66 near Middlesbrough in the early hours of Saturday.Prime Minister Andy Burnham said he was “devastated” by the deaths of PC Matthew Blades, 37, and PC Tom Clough, 38, who…
The family had travelled from London to Shoreham for a day out. A six-year-old British-Palestinian girl has died in hospital days after she and her family got into difficulty in the sea off Shoreham in West Sussex, in a tragedy that claimed the lives of her parents and teenage sister.Saja El-Khawas, from London, was pulled…
When you are a royal, everything is high class. From your clothes to your travelling vehicles, everything associated with you is expected to abide by certain standards. Thus, when the royals travelled from London to Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, they had a special station of their own. Originally known as Wolferton Station, the terminal was…
Born without a uterus, Molly Eagles is raising £20,000 to keep her dream of becoming a mother alive after years of IVF, surrogacy and a heartbreaking miscarriage. A woman born without a uterus has broken down in tears while sharing her emotional fertility journey as she and her fiance raise £20,000 to create embryos that…
Nathan Cofnas (L), who exposed Cambridge professor Jason Arday’s plagiarism, suspended by Ghent University. A day after Ghent University suspended him, US academic Nathan Cofnas has said he was made a “scapegoat” after he brought plagiarism allegations against late former Cambridge professor Jason Arday into the spotlight.Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Cofnas said he…
Nathan Cofnas (L), who exposed Cambridge professor Jason Arday’s plagiarism, suspended by Ghent University. Nathan Cofnas, the American academic who brought plagiarism allegations against Jason Arday into the spotlight, has himself been suspended by Ghent University in Belgium, days after the former Cambridge professor was found dead after intense scrutiny over his academic work.Arday, a…
A bizarre incident at a hospital in North Wales left staff and visitors stunned after a 26-year-old man climbed onto the roof dressed in a black costume resembling the Grim Reaper and carried a long blade-like object. Leon Gillespie climbed above the entrance of Ysbyty Glan Clwyd hospital in St Asaph on June 6, where…
The attack took place at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue. A 49-year-old Iraqi national has been charged in connection with last year’s terror attack at a synagogue in Manchester, in which two men were killed and three others seriously injured.Hekmat Omar Ali Hakim, of St James Road in Higher Broughton, has been charged with…
Travelodge CEO Joanna Boydell resigns/Image: Getty Images A major UK hotel chain’s chief executive has stepped down amid growing scrutiny over security failures.Travelodge CEO Joanna Boydell resigned on August 17, the company confirmed in a statement on Thursday. She has been replaced on an interim basis by chief financial officer Ray Reidy, while the company…
