All news by author: Tim Hanlon

Holly Hodgart has sold a battered first-edition Harry Potter book featuring a rare error for £20,000, despite its yellowing pages and missing spine

Neighbours on a Middlesbrough street are celebrating a massive £2.6 million jackpot win in the People's Postcode Lottery and are now planning holidays and weddings

Natea May-Griffiths, who is-16 weeks-pregnant, has told how she is worried for her unborn child due to the conditions of her flat in Worcester which she calls a "mouldy cesspit" due to dampness

Meghan Markle has regularly spoken about social issues during interviews and here are four signs that the Duchess of Sussex could be planning a move into the political arena

Motorists in the UK are seeing "pay and display" meters disappear up and down the country with new mobile phone apps replacing them in a move blasted as "appalling" by campaign groups

Mary Ann Clifton, known as Rosina, has celebrated her 108th birthday at a care home in Orpington, Kent, and she has revealed her secret to a long and happy life

The arrival of a Poundland in an exclusive London neighbourhood has led to a fierce debate ranging from residents calling it a "disaster" to one saying "what is the problem with it"

The FBI is offering a reward for information following the kidnapping of US citizen, Maria del Carmen Lopez, who was taken from her retirement home in Mexico and was heard pleading with masked men

A mysterious new illness has broken out in Tanzania which has killed five people so far with symptoms including fever and nosebleeds as doctors race to try and identify it

Fiona Beal is accused of murdering her partner Nicholas Billingham after luring him to bed for sex and afterwards wrote in a diary that she wasn't a "monster", a court heard

Camilla is officially known as the Queen Consort since Charles became King but in a Coronation edition of the bible she has been given a surprise different title

Elderly penguins in Singapore whose vision had been failing are now more "active" and with a bounce in their step after having cataract operations and new lenses fitted in a "world first"

The family of Harrison Palmer, 12, from Camborne, who was hit and killed by a van in Cornwall last Monday have called him a "beautiful" boy and said "no words can describe our pain"

Yasemn Kaptan, from London, has been skipping meals for a year due to spending £60 of her £69 weekly allowance on her pets after illness forced her to leave her job as a personal shopper

A man, whose ex-partner was a friend of Sinead James, the mum of a tragic toddler who died having received 101 injuries, told a court that he saw the two-year-old with a black eye, just weeks before her death

The International Space Station needs to be taken out of orbit after 2030, and NASA is planning to use a £1billion space tug to help it be safely crashed back down to Earth

Shirley Lyons, a consultant for Starplan in Northern Ireland, had her bum touched amid unwanted sexual attention at a Christmas party in 2017 and has now been awarded £19,000 in a harassment case

Laura Gerber has told how she "thought it was the end" after taking a step back in a Watford road and fell into a 10 feet deep sinkhole where her whole body went into the sewage

The family of Theo Emm, aged three, have said they had only just welcomed baby brother Oliver into the world days before the tragedy

Lance Martin, 65, has told how he has lost 40 metres of his back garden to erosion at his home at Hemsby, Norfolk and is having to pull back the property for a second time from the cliff edge

Colder weather has swept in today with widespread yellow weather warnings for snow and ice across the country, and Met Office charts have predicted when flurries will be felt widely

A family found a sapphire ring worth thousands of pounds wrapped in the old possessions as they went through the belongings of a late great gran in Derby

Bizarre CCTV footage from Leicester shows a man walking up to a parked Seat car, pouring petrol over it and setting it on fire before punching a second man when he runs up to him

WARNING MENTIONS SUICIDE: Charlie Eccleston, 19, and Zaiga Gravenieks, 20, were found dead together as one of their mums told an inquest the couple lived, died and were buried together

High roller Lester Hui is being sued by Aspinall's Clubs Ltd for failing to pay up after losing nearly £600,000 at the exclusive Mayfair casino, but he claims staff encouraged him to drink and gamble