Michael Carrick sack decision twist as Manchester United delay decision again

Despite widespread reports on Monday night claiming a decision has been made to sack the under-pressure manager, Carrick arrived at the club’s Carrington training ground on Tuesday and oversaw training with a depleted…

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David Walliams: A timeline of controversies involving the TV star

Read our privacy notice . Former Britain’s Got Talent judge and Little Britain star David Walliams is facing claims from multiple women of sexually inappropriate behaviour when they were teenagers. Here is a timeline of…

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How David Walliams failed to keep identity secret amid sex claims

Read our privacy notice . David Walliams was named as the celebrity facing allegations of sexual misconduct after losing his bid for a High Court injunction to keep his identity secret. The children’s author and comedian…

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The dangerous rape myth that Russell Brand’s barrister brought to his sentencing

During his sentencing, Brand’s defence barrister relied on an array of rape myths and stereotypes about how women should respond to sexual abuse , and responding to the prosecution, described one of the women as “not…

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Paula Radcliffe praises Princess Charlotte for inspiring girls to get into sport

The three-time London Marathon winner was awarded her medal by the Prince of Wales at an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle on Tuesday as she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to…

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Russell Brand: Inside the 'squalid, unsafe and overcrowded' London jail where he faces years locked up

Read our privacy notice . Convicted rapist Russell Brand is facing up to 10 years behind bars in a London prison condemned as “unsafe, squalid and overcrowded”. The 51-year-old is understood to have been locked up at…

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Man who stole ambulance with patient inside jailed

Had it crashed, the patient would have died, the court heard. Leese eventually stopped at a petrol station on the A34 in Newcastle-under-Lyme and fled but was found hiding nearby by a police sniffer dog. The 32-year-old…

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Edinburgh Academy ignored decades of ‘dreadful abuse’ to protect reputation, inquiry finds

Join today Already a member? Log in Pupils at Edinburgh Academy suffered “dreadful abuse” over 40 years while the school ignored numerous complaints and focused on protecting its reputation, the Scottish Child Abuse…

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Iran rejects French claims it was behind supermarket fridge hacking

On Monday, the French authorities blamed Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for the string of hacks, which foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot said were "unprecedented" in terms of their scale and "level of…

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New regulation for heating oil market, but no price controls

However it will not include the sort of price controls applied to the gas and electricity markets. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) investigated the heating oil market in Northern Ireland and other parts of…

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