All news by author: Tim Hanlon

Michael Beaton, 35, has died after being struck by a light-coloured vehicle and then stabbed with a knife in Greenock with police launching a murder investigation

The World Health Organization has given advice and symptoms of the swine flu strain H1N2, after the first case of the viral infection was detected in the UK by medics

A memorial tree for Jewish refugees who fled Austria at the start of the Second World War has been damaged, with police believing a vehicle drove across a Brighton park to hit it

A tiny beach shack, 18ft by 12ft, with "corrugated sheeting" has gone on the market for an eye-watering £185,000 in Abersoch, north Wales, dubbed 'Cheshire by the Sea'

Superbugs caused by over-use of drugs on factory farms kill nearly 2,000 Brits a year, it's been claimed, and sickness from infections cost the economy more than a billion pounds, a study found

Convicted sex offender Jacky Jhaj, 38, can be seen mixing with around 200 children at a film shooting where he moves along a red carpet in London's Leicester Square

Russian leader Vladimir Putin is using body doubles according to artificial intelligence that has found that some have less than a 50% match, with rumours rife that he is unwell or even dead

Data shows that around 37,500 households around the country will need help with their heating due to boiler problems as they look to warm up their homes due to the arrival of wintry weather

West Midlands Police Chief Constable Craig Guildford has said he "completely disagrees" with a decision to move it into an enhanced level of monitoring due to concerns by a watchdog

Conor McGregor's furious rant that "Ireland is at war" and there is a "grave danger" following stabbings outside a Dublin school, that sparked rioting, has provoked a bitter backlash online

Brazilian Deliveroo rider Caio Benicio, 43, is being hailed as a hero after he intervened as a knifeman attacked a woman and three children in Dublin and hit him with his helmet

The UK is set for temperatures to plummet next week and could fall as low as -7C in some parts of the country with nine days of snow as Arctic winds move in from the north

Ambulances and medics are on standby to help workers who are expected to be freed later today from a collapsed tunnel in India where they have been trapped for nearly two weeks

A mystery pneumonia outbreak has led to hospitals in China becoming "overwhelmed" by ill children with the World Health Organisation now making an urgent request for information

The Tilted Barrel, in the West Midlands, that took on the title of "Britain's wonkiest pub" following the fire and demolition of The Crooked House, has now sold at auction for around £170,000

Gillian Bayford won a massive EuroMillions jackpot of £148 million in 2012 with former husband Adrian but she has told of her misery since then and no longer speaks to her family

Arctic winds from the north are heading down causing temperatures to plummet over the coming days and a 436 mile snowbomb is expected to stretch across the country

Home Secretary James Cleverly was accused of calling Stockton North MP Alex Cunningham's constituency a 'sh**hole' during a heated exchange in the Commons

Evelyn Vásquez Villalobos, from Costa Rica, who was nine months pregnant and due to give birth any day has allegedly died from a scorpion bite in her home after being found by her husband

A cryovolcanic "devil" comet named 12P/Pons-Brooks which is three times bigger than Everest and has its nickname due to distinctive horns is hurtling towards Earth

Influencer Lucía Pombo has shown images of her foot where a parasitic worm was wriggling in her toe while she was on holiday in Tanzania and it led to the skin condition cutaneous larva migrans

A Volkswagen Golf has been pictured parked up on the middle lane of the A38(M) Aston Expressway in Birmingham at rush hour with police asking the driver to "explain why you walked away"

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has warned doctors to be on the lookout for measles in children and check their vaccination status as cases surge

NASA astronauts dropped a tool bag while carrying out maintenance work on the International Space Station and these are the best dates for stargazers in the UK to see it

A couple from Australia have hit the jackpot, scooping £345,000, with their numbers coming up finally after 20 years of buying a ticket from the same shop in the town of Tatura