Alyson Wishart was one of 500 residents in Middlesbrough who had their bins left after council officers snooped inside as part of a crackdown on people who weren’t putting the right things inside.

Secondly, opposing the demonisation of a group of extremists as representative of an entire religion as a whole is a pretty shaky bridge for the NUS to walk out on; I can't imagine them refusing to criticise Israel on the basis …

After all, the porn industry has been statistically linked to the sexual violence pandemic. I'm so glad that you are living life well and to the best of your ability; keep telling people that just because your birth father was an evil scumbag doesn't …

The party had expected to cash in on the four million votes it got at the general election with millions of pounds of public money. But its sole MP Douglas Carswell refused the full £650,000-a-year funding.

Bali Nine ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were shot by an Indonesian firing squad 25 minutes after midnight Wednesday local time (3.25AM) AEST.

Seven-year-old Charlotte Briggs was refused a place at Lydgate Junior School in Sheffield even though it can be seen from her window.

Kai Windsor of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, is set to undergo hormone treatment at the age of 10 to halt puberty and stop him developing into a woman.

The parents were originally fined £120 for their son’s absence from Sweyne Park School in Essex. They unsuccessfully appealed the decision but bailiffs were sent round.

The binmen in Farnham, Surrey, said the bag of Walkers prawn cocktail crisps fell foul of the rules – even though it had been dropped there by a litterbug and not by the owner of the bin.

The Department of Work and Pension says people who spend, transfer or give away their pot risk being denied the safety net of benefits if they are found to have deliberately deprived the state of cash.