All news by author: Tim Hanlon

Ian Huntley’s daughter Samantha Bryan, 25, says she wants to meet the Soham murderer for the first time and find out the full truth about the deaths of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman

The winning numbers from Saturday night's National Lottery's Lotto draw have taken place with the chance for one lucky participant to win a life-changing £7.2 million

The UK is set to face temperatures dropping to -12C overnight with parts of the country seeing up to 15 centimetres of snow says the Met Office who have an amber warning in place

Charlie Cooper, 28, from Warrington, was allowed to get dressed by police after he was arrested because he was acting in a "calm" way, but he then ran off on foot

Army reservist Steven MacLennan, 50, has told how he pulled an injured 43-year-old woman from rubble after a suspected gas explosion in Edinburgh that destroyed a home and killed a pensioner

A massive 7.6-magnitude earthquake has hit the Philippines with the epicentre off the southern coast and metre high tsunamis expected to reach as far as Japan in the coming hours

Paul and Lynda Ben-David saw their historic thatched cottage blitzed in a fire caused by sparks from a neighbour's stove and now they are seeking £415,000 in compensation

An easyJet flight carrying up to 180 passengers from Alicante to Manchester had a near miss by around 20 feet in what has been rated as a Category A incident with serious risk of collision

Jon Venables, one of the killers of toddler James Bulger, will be told in two weeks if he is to be given parole and experts believe that if he is, it may include "the strictest conditions ever"

Dr Tom Back, who was the GP for Ruth Perry, headteacher of Caversham Primary School in Reading, told an inquest that an Ofsted inspection contributed in a more than minimal way” to her death

Claire, from Scunthorpe, has told how she went from "doctor to doctor" begging for help for her six-year-old daughter Evie Maw but was treated as a "paranoid mum" before a brain tumour was found

A German mercenary fighting alongside Ukrainian soldiers on the frontline against Russian forces said that they are forced to trade loo rolls for food as rations are so short

The UK is set to be buried in a 600 mile wall of snow over the coming days in an icy spell where temperatures could drop as low as -10C due to a low pressure moving in from Scandinavia

Residents in Denton, Greater Manchester, have been left baffled by underwhelming Christmas lights in the town centre which "look like they've been launched into a tree"

Shoppers at the Churchill Square shopping centre in Brighton have blasted a "contemporary" piece of artwork that has replaced a traditional Christmas tree with one person calling it an "abomination"

Aaron Ritchie, 49, fell into the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Wigan and it is believed that his carer jumped into the icy water in a bid to save him but they tragically both died

Phil Sutton, who lives in Stockport, was sleeping rough when he was young before his life was turned around by a job advert that set him on the path to an amazing career

Hamas has claimed that 10-month-old baby hostage Kfir Bibas has been killed in Gaza during clashes, with the Israeli authorities saying that they are now investigating

Weather maps show the UK is set to see the deep freeze easing by the end of next week but while the temperatures will be milder, maps show heavy rain and winds driving in from the Atlantic

Emily Hand was held hostage for 50 days by Hamas and now dad Thomas has revealed she only speaks in a "whisper" and is sensitive to loud noise after her long ordeal

Kelvin Ward, 50, was stabbed to death as he left a KFC in Birmingham by a group who were targeting his son and heard shouting "everyone kill him" with two people found guilty of murder

Dad-of-four Ian Godber claims his children's eyes were "popping out of their heads" after they ate chocolate that was allegedly "laced with drugs" at Mansfield Christmas market

Ruth Perry, headteacher of Caversham Primary School, is believed to have taken her own life after getting a poor Ofsted report that colleagues say left her "tearful" and "incoherent"

The UK is set for a deep freeze with temperatures dropping to -8C overnight due to low pressure moving in from Scandinavia, leading to snow and ice warnings from the Met Office and a health alert

Arctic winds are bringing icy temperatures for the "foreseeable future" with the mercury dropping down to -6C this week and flurries of snow as a yellow health alert is issued