All news by author: Martin Fricker

The Government has launched a consultation on licensing the booming but largely unregulated industry, as many people offering the treatments are not qualified to carry them out

The 16-year-old's family have accused Crime Minister Chris Philp of going back on a face-to-face promise to outlaw sales of the deadly weapons after Ronan was killed

Zovita Moon and Liz Simmons have been a duo for only two weeks and have played just six games together, but they are heading to the All England Club for the over-85s final

The mother of a stabbing victim is campaigning against knife crime, and she wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister at the launch of the petition

The men were pictured being escorted by police in handcuffs into a building after the alleged victim was taken to hospital - local media reported grip marks were found on her arms

Ruth and husband Rob scooped a fortune in a Euromillions draw last year, and since then, they have taken their son and daughter on their first flights and visited several hotspots

There was a greater chance of Donna Creed winning the National Lottery than being a suitable organ donor for her husband Darren – but amazingly she has successfully given him her kidney

Katniss Selezneva's distraught mum Tsvetelina ran from her home in Walsall after hearing the motorcycle crash and watched as neighbours performed CPR on her daughter

Ronan Kanda was stabbed to death as he walked home from a pal’s house, and now his mother has written an open letter to Rishi Sunak demanding action

Greg Hoar inherited the classic Morris Minor from his gran, who bought it brand new in 1967 for £628 – £10,000 in today’s money

A post on the Croppie website, for crop circle enthusiasts, described the new pictogram as a 'reproduction, remaster, even, of the most iconic crop circle of all time'

Post Office staff failed to check Prabjeet Veadhesa’s ID when he collected the deadly parcel - and apparently assessed the 16-year-old to be over 25 simply by looking at him

Ronan Kanda, 16, was murdered by two fellow pupils with a sword they bought online - and now his mother says the grisly weapons should be outlawed as they are only used 'for killing other humans'

The idea came up after Edna Colton, 93, told staff she always wanted a ­granddaughter as she only has grandsons - and a new breed of visitors was arranged

Ben Woodroffe became enamored with the wacky sport after his parents took to him watch a competition when he was a teenager - he's been obsessed ever since

Ronan Kanda was simply walking home from a friend's house when he was set upon and stabbed by two teens. His killers were looking for another youngster at the time of the murder

Kevin Topham, 95, had been desperate to return to Club X on Newark, Nottinghamshire, one last time when it reopened after a decade as he had met his late wife there in 1949

HMP Fosse Way is a state-of-the-art 'resettlement' jail for prisoners nearing the end of their sentences, and is one of the world’s first ultra low-carbon prisons

The former England skipper also has plans for kitchen garden at his nine-bed property in the Oxfordshire countryside

Joanie’s left arm did not fully develop before birth, meaning she struggled to throw the ball up to serve before British start-up company Koalaa set about engineering a solution

Andrew has set his sights on Singapore - the longest trip you can make on land - after the success of his cheap excursion to Krakow last time round, despite it taking nine bus changes

The Tap and Run in Upper Broughton, Notts, was gutted in a blaze caused by a faulty tumble dryer in June last year

Parents have fumed after pupils at a school in Coventry were given a brutally insensitive message after they were unable to afford an end-of-year theme park trip

Terrified locals living in Worcester have said they can no longer enjoy their gardens, or simply venture out to hang their washing to dry due to violent seagulls that dive-bomb them

The sons of Ian Coates, a 65-year-old school caretaker who was killed on his way to work, attended Nottingham Crown Court today to see his alleged killer appear before a judge for the first time