All news by author: Tim Hanlon

Alan Slattery, 69, from Hastings, has been jailed after going into three banks demanding money in a note passed under the counter and warning that he is "not f***ing about"

Carl O'Keeffe, 49, was crushed at an indoor cave at Kong Adventure Centre in the Lake District and as he was given palliative care in hospital, his daughter read him a poem

Pancreatic cancer has one of the lowest survival rates and is known as a silent killer but there are little known visible symptoms of the disease which are are crucial to spot

Two Brit tourists who attacked a taxi driver in Magaluf, Spain, last year, kicking and punching him before leaving him lying in the street are facing the possibility of jail

Protestors set fire to roads in Paris with containers pictured ablaze as police battled to contain the chaos with dozens of officers injured up and down the country

A 37-year-old woman called 'Sana' went missing in London with an urgent search by police being launched - but on Saturday afternoon the Metropolitan Police said she has been found

Mum-of-two Cassie Locke, 31, from Maidstone, has told how she is at "breaking point" claiming to see up to ten mice a day in her home while having a phobia of the rodents

Helen Allen, a resident at a Wolverhampton care home, has told how she fulfilled a teenage dream of having a tattoo at the age of 77 and said "it wasn't painful at all"

Images have been released of a woman police are looking for after a man was sexually assaulted at Euston Underground station when he refused to link arms with the female

Kathryn Llewellyn, 43, and friend Teresa Morgan-Peters, 45, broke into a woman's home near Swansea wearing Halloween clown masks and doused her in bleach in a terrifying attack

Jemma Zoezee, from Abergele, who had been a nursery worker and suffered four miscarriages as she tried to have a child was found dead by her husband, an inquest heard

Primary school teacher Fiona Beal, 49, is accused of murdering her boyfriend Nicholas Billingham and burying his body in their garden in Northampton

Keely McGrath, 25, was left disappointed at biting into her favourite chocolate bar, a Kit Kat, and finding no wafer, just chocolate, while others claim she won the "food lottery"

The National Lottery has urged Brits to check their tickets from last week as two jackpots have not been claimed from the EuroMillions and the Set For Life draws

Astronomers have detected 25 repeating fast radio bursts coming from space in a new study as they try to understand more about the mysterious phenomenon and what could be causing them

Three teenagers, two boys and a girl, all aged 15 have been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a man in Nuneaton possibly following an "altercation"

The woman went to the hospital as she was suffering from a buzzing sound in her ear and when doctors used an endoscope to look inside they found the "eardrum" wasn't what they thought it was

Marelle Sturrock, 35, a pregnant teacher, was found dead at her home on Tuesday morning just hours after posting a photo of herself smiling with friends at a restaurant

West Yorkshire Police have released the recording of a 999 call where a man was complaining because he had been refused entry to a Primark store by a security guard

Benjamin Jeremy Bourke, 28, pleaded guilty to attempted murder of a teen after he hunted her through the aisles of an Aldi store in Brisbane using a compound bow and arrow, it is reported

Great-grandad Vic Sutton has been named Britain's oldest employee at the age of 90 and he said that he has "no intention of giving up work" as he aims to "hit the big century"

Shopkeeper Billy Maher, 62, told how he went to the rescue of a colleague at Nisa Local in Peterborough who was wrestling with an attempted robber, saying "the adrenalin kicks in and you think of your staff's safety"

Gertrude Barrett has told an inquest in Dublin that she is "forever haunted" over what happened to her son Michael in his final moments after he was one of 48 people to die at the Stardust Ballroom nightclub tragedy

The UK is set for balmy weather ahead with the Met Office saying that temperatures are expected to rise to the high teens and possibly 20C over the May Bank Holiday - making it hotter than Monaco

Colin Lockitt, 64, who was sacked after opting to save a dead woman's necklace rather than having it cremated in a "fast judgement call" has won a £40,000 pay out after being sacked