Cecilia Manduca, 25, who works for London firm GrantTree, recently decided to give herself a pay-rise, taking her salary from £30,000 to £37,000. But there’s a catch; colleagues can’t give themselves a pay raise without discussing it with their colleagues first, and it must reflect what they’d earn at a similar firm. She told BBC…
A veteran republican who helped found the Provisional IRA has said Gerry Adams was a member of the organisation and described his denials as “a lie”. Des Long has given an interview to BBC Spotlight as part of its series on the Troubles. He claimed he attended meetings of the IRA’s ruling executive with Mr…
A 17 year old boy has pleaded guilty to murdering a solicitor with a screwdriver. 52 year old Peter Duncan was attacked with a screwdriver outside of a Greggs in Newcastle city centre’s Eldon Square shopping centre on 14 August. The teenager who cannot be named, appeared at Leeds Crown Court via video link and…
A man from Brighton who almost died from meningitis has revealed how he began to look forward to having his limbs amputated, as his illness progressed. 60 year old Mike Davies spent 70 days in intensive care with meningococcal meningitis and septicaemia, and during this time, he said he knew his hands and feet were…
PewDiePie has cancelled a donation of $50,000 (£40,496) to a charity that campaigns to stop hate speech against Jewish people. Earlier this week, to celebrate 100 million subscribers on Youtubers, he told viewers he would give the money to the Anti Defamation League, a group which has previously criticised the YouTuber. But he has since…
Moate was last seen at Frenier Beach, near Laplace, Louisiana on November 24, 1956. That morning, a hunter and his son saw a blue four-door sedan parked five yards from the shore of Lake Pontchartrain. A man and woman were in the backseat. They were later identified as Moate and Thomas Hotard. Three hours later,…