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Sainsbury’s has announced plans to cut 3,000 jobs amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. A large number of the jobs will go from the group’s Argos business, which was bought by the supermarket in 2016. There will be layoffs in Sainsbury’s stores with the closure of delicatessens and fresh fish and meat counters, according to a […]

An ex-Coronation Street actress’ mum was arrested after trying to take her 97-year-old gran out of her care home before lockdown. Leandra Ashton, who played Saskia Larson on the soap, shared agonising footage of her mum being handcuffed, while her dementia-stricken grandmother sat in the car during the incident in East Yorkshire on Tuesday. Retried […]

Helen’s Law has been granted Royal Assent and will come into force within weeks. The legislation is named after Helen McCourt, the 22-year-old murdered by pub landlord Ian Simms in 1988. Her remains have never been found and mother Marie, 77, campaigned to halt the parole of killers who refuse to reveal where their victims’ […]

Couples can continue to get married during the coronavirus pandemic – but only if one of them is dying. From Thursday, just six guests will be permitted to attend limited marriage ceremonies in England where either the husband or wife-to-be is seriously ill and not expected to recover. New regulations will plunge the UK into […]

Christmas shoppers packed high streets and shopping centres just hours before England is plunged into a second lockdown. City centres were heaving as many tried to make the most of shopping before all non-essential shops close for four weeks from tomorrow. Many also flocked to pubs and restaurants before they close at 10pm until December […]

A plane passenger described by a stewardess as “the most obnoxious customer she has ever encountered” called travellers and flight crew “a bunch of c***s”, a court heard. Kujo Frei, 24, flew into a rage when another passenger “left a mess” in the toilets of a Virgin Atlantic flight from Delhi to Heathrow earlier this […]

A woman’s family spent a week searching desperately for her after she went missing – unaware she was dead following a fire. Lucy Wright, 40, was found dead at a derelict building after going missing from her Trentham, Staffordshire home. An inquest heard she had taken stimulant synthetic drug ‘monkey dust,’ which has similar effects […]