All news by author: Tim Hanlon

Decorated Russian war commander Lt-Col Irek Magasumov, 35, who was personally awarded Russia's highest honour by Vladimir Putin is facing jail for shooting an 18-year-old woman dead

Locals living on the Bel Air Chalet Estate in Essex complained last January about Seawick Road, dubbed the worst in the UK, and say it is still in a terrible state a year on

A new study provides a list of 15 factors that can increase your risk of developing early onset dementia including lifestyle influences that can make a significant difference

Lewis Dailly spotted what some social media users think could be a lynx prowling around the British countryside while on holiday with his family in the Lake District

George and Louise Greenaway of the Tamworth Tap, Staffordshire, said it was "beyond incredible" after their boozer won the National Pub of the Year award again

Journalist Alina Manrique of TC Television network in Guayaquil, Ecuador, has told how staff were "hunted down" and how she feared she "wouldn't see her children again" when an armed gang entered

Sean Bryan, from Kilkenny, Ireland, said that he "didn't have a hangover" after his claim to have drunk 81 pints of Guinness over a weekend led to him being blasted online

Electrician Robbie Tomlinson, 29, from Scunthorpe, has been ordered to pay nearly £13,000 in fines and compensation after lying about his qualifications and carrying out shoddy work

WARNING: DISTRESSING IMAGE A puppy believed to have been an XL Bully type was dumped in a tied bin bag behind a Tesco in Birmingham and left to die with broken bones and severely underweight

Donna Maxwell, from Ayrshire, claimed that she was attacked outside a hospital by a stranger but a court heard that she actually stabbed herself in a compensation plan

Mark Ormrod MBE, who lost both legs and his right arm during a bomb blast in Afghanistan and has been praised by Prince Harry as a hero, has now had his stolen prosthetic legs returned

Investigators for the Post Office were paid bonuses for each subpostmaster convicted during the Horizon scandal, it has emerged as blanket legislation to exonerate them is to be introduced

Rival drug lord Fabricio Colon Pico, alias The Savage, has now escaped prison in Ecuador following Fito with President Daniel Noboa saying there is a "terrorist threat" against the country which is in chaos

Three female protestors from the Northants Hunt Saboteurs claim they were dragged through a field and sworn at by a group of masked "stewards" at a meeting of a leading hunt

A nine-foot-long sea creature with razor sharp teeth has been pulled from the water by a fisherman in Australia. The beast has been likened to something from a "horror movie"

Ecuador's most dangerous drug lord Jose Adolfo Macias Villamar, alias Fito, has escaped from the high security Guayaquil prison. He is head of Los Choneros linked to El Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel

The UK is set for a cold spell with sub-zero temperatures to continue for the rest of the week and it could mean people with chronic pain will suffer excruciatingly

People looking to give a boost to their memory and keep it sharp have been told how exercise is an easy way to do this along with the period of time needed to notice a difference

The UK is facing a spell of icy temperatures and snow flurries with more than 100 flood warnings still in place from Storm Henk that battered the country with heavy rain and high winds

Nicholas Papworth can be seen as he stares down police while being quizzed over an attack in Bedfordshire where he and Anthony Bennison stabbed and ran over their victims leaving two dead

Married senior GP Dr Peter Rubin, of Clifton Hampden Surgery, who avoided being struck off in the past for having sex with a patient and then prescribing a morning-after pill, has been suspended again

Morgan Algeri and Tiziana Tozzo had enjoyed a romantic dinner on their first date and had got back into their car parked by Lake Como, in Italy, when it lurched into the water and they both drowned

Jonathan Beron, 26, can be seen collapsing suddenly to the ground after being hit by a bolt of lightning in a park in Argentina where he was sheltering with friends under a tree

People can work out their chances of getting dementia by looking at how they fit into five personality traits, scientists have found, according to a new study

Alex Batty, 17, who was missing for six years with his mother and grandfather, says that it is his "biggest dream" as he starts college today and plans to go on and study at university