HE may be a 63-year-old “normal” dad these days, but Shaun Ryder has not lost the ability to shock. When the Happy Mondays frontman spoke to host Jack Whitehall at the Brit Awards last month, his t…

THE sleepy town of Nanuet near New York had never experienced a police shooting until masked robbers opened fire on officers while fleeing a mid afternoon bank raid. The district’s first black poli…

WHEN trainer Brendan Ingle took the scrawny 11-year-old Naseem Hamed around boxing events and told everyone he would be a world champion, they thought he was crazy. Yet by 1995, just a decade later…

IN the sunny back garden of a home in North London, Eva Longoria is going full Mexican – dressed as a Day Of The Dead ghost, while a mariachi band plays in the background. Er, why? Whatever happene…

WITH TV cameras rolling, a team of armed officers storm the home of a suspected paedophile – after he was caught in an online sting. But as the SWAT team confronted William Conradt – wh…

ANYONE meeting a member of the Royal Family would normally mind their Ps and Qs. But when John Davidson came face to face with King Charles he called him a “f***ing parasite”, and on the way to see…

THE man sitting in the corner of a pub beer garden being heckled by a couple of well-oiled locals does not look like someone who is easily riled. Softy-spoken Alan Davies, the mainstay of BBC’s QI …

THE first thing Ed Punchard knew about the explosion on the Piper Alpha oil rig was when the roof of his “bomb proof” office collapsed on his head. The diver, who’d already come close to one terrib…

AS Iraqi soldiers dug a huge ditch, one of them broke down in tears and told Clive Earthy that it was for the British Airways crew member being held as a “human shield”. But the young man then told…

WHEN a dog knocked Ray Winn’s last nine pounds from her hands, she desperately scrabbled down a drain trying to salvage the dropped coins. But rather than helping her, the pet’s female owner poked …

WIELDING a red lightsaber, US President Donald Trump threatened to cut Britain’s film industry to shreds. It is ironic then, that all the Star Wars movies were made over here, thanks to the kind of…

THE greatest year for movies? It has to be 1975. Half a century ago, cinema was changed for ever by the release of five films so important that no one would dare remake them. It is impossible to im…

SNOW WHITE (PG) 109mins ★★★☆☆ MIRROR, mirror on the wall, is Snow White the wokest film of them all? On reflection, no. Disney execs must be banging their heads on boardroom tables wondering how a …

TIRED of endless scrolling while looking for something to stream? Relax, we’ve done the hard work for you and picked the best must-see movies currently available on streaming networks. And to…

IF you’ve got any plans for December 22, 2032, you might want to bring them forward. Because the chance of an ­asteroid the size of a football pitch hitting Earth on that date has just doubled. If …

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (15) 125 mins ★★★★☆ WHEN Britain’s new heartthrob actor Leo Woodall was asked if he felt “objectified” he replied that he couldn’t help asking himself: “Am I that g…