All news by author: Ryan Merrifield

Frustrated shoppers were reporting contactless payment issues, including Apple Pay, at Tesco and Sainsbury's supermarkets across the UK this evening - but the problem is now said to have been resolved

Shani Louk was attending Nova music festival near Kibbutz Re'im when Hamas terrorists launched their attack - viral footage appeared to show her lifeless body in the back of a pick-up truck

Ex-Tory election agent Alexander Shayler - who has been involved in three general election campaigns - defrauded more than £9,000 from teenager Anton Roche after mum Leila Roy died during Covid

Glenda Winter, 82, fundraised to buy a defibrillator for her Bield sheltered living block in Duns, Scotland, but was gobsmacked when she was charged a whopping amount for VAT

Mohammed Deif, 58, was born in a Gaza refugee camp and commands Hamas's military wing, the al-Qassam brigades. He lives a shadowy existence, hiding in a series of underground tunnels

Mor Bayder's grandmother was murdered by a Hamas militant in her home on Sunday before the killer posted a video of her body on her Facebook profile, she claims

Pro-Palestine protesters chanting "Israel is a terrorist state" gathered near the country's embassy in London - which was subsequently boarded up - this evening

Israel's official account on X posted a selfie of Tamar and Yonatan Kedem, along with their children Shachar, Arbel and Omer, who are said to have died in Kibbutz Nir Oz on Saturday

The families of Brits Bernard Cowan and Dan Darlington say they died on Saturday in the Hamas terror attack in heartbreaking tributes after Corporal Nathanel Young, 20, was also confirmed dead

A horror crash saw a coach crash into a taxi rank in Cadiz in south-west Spain after crossing a bridge, leaving at least three people dead and two more seriously injured

Former Radio 1 DJ Chris Denning - a friend of Jimmy Savile - was serving two 13 year prison sentences after being convicted of sex offences against boys as young as eight

The teenager, 16, was stabbed to death in Kendal Gardens, Edmonton, in North London, on Sunday evening. His uncle has described how he staggered to his home after the attack

The wildfire broke out on Wednesday, with the towns of Santa Ursula and La Orotava in the mountainous northeast of the island affected, as more than 3,000 people have been evacuated

Figures from Diabetes UK show over 4.3million Brits live with the blood sugar condition, with 90 percent of those having type 2 - while an estimated 850 million people don't even realise they have it at all

Strike action due to take place from Wednesday on the London Underground has been called off, the RMT union has confirmed, citing significant progress made in negotiations

Nigel Farage and Priti Patel were filmed dancing and fist pumping to Can't Take My Eyes Off You during a boozy Tory bash at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester

Members of RMT and ASLEF unions are striking this week amid a long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions, with walkouts coinciding with the Conservative Party annual conference

Britain could be basking in temperatures on par with Spanish city Barcelona in the coming days as forecasts predict the mercury will soar well above the average for October

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced XL Bully dogs will be banned in the UK by the end of the year after a spate of deadly attacks, with desperate owners now trying to flog the pets online

A fire spread across three night venues in Spain with at least 13 people having died including a 30-year-old from Nicaragua who was celebrating his birthday and members of his family

Former lumberjack Walter Renwick, 69, has two leaking heart valves and is not fit enough to have cut down the Sycamore Gap in Northumberland, says his daughter-in-law

Weather charts suggest temperatures could remain much higher than the average for October at least into the middle of the month, with the Met Office forecasting a possible 25C peak

Weather charts suggest temperatures could remain much higher than the average for October at least into the middle of the month, with the Met Office forecasting a possible 25C peak

Three teenagers have been arrested after a 16-year-old boy was killed and four others were seriously injured in what police believe to be connected stabbings in Luton, Bedfordshire

The family of dad-of-two Stephen Shrimpton, 40, who died in the horror M53 coach crash on Friday morning have paid tribute to him as a "loving husband and father"