Author: Darren Smith

A bank cashier who stole thousands of pounds from vulnerable elderly customers — including an 85-year-old stroke victim — to fund luxury holidays to Africa, Dubai, Paris and the Caribbean was exposed after colleagues grew suspicious of her lavish lifestyle on Facebook and has been jailed for 16 months. Kershaw, 54, had worked as a trusted cashier at Nationwide’s Caernarfon branch for 18 years before committing the offences during 2023 and 2024. She targeted a number of vulnerable customers, including an 85-year-old stroke victim and a 49-year-old man with learning difficulties who kept his bank card at the branch having…

A British tourist is fighting for his life in intensive care after falling from a hotel balcony in the Ibizan party resort of San Antonio, suffering multiple traumatic injuries in the late-night incident. The 24-year-old was rushed to Can Misses hospital around midnight following the plunge. Health sources told The Sun the man’s condition is serious but stable. “He is in intensive care. He’s stable but serious. He has multiple traumatic injuries,” a well-placed source said. The hotel where the fall occurred has not been named. Local police are investigating the exact circumstances of the incident, with a source cautioning…

The crisis engulfing Real Madrid has reached a new and farcical low, with parents of first-team players now lobbying club president Florentino Perez directly over their sons’ lack of playing time — as the Spanish giants reel from a string of violent training ground clashes that have left one player hospitalised and the dressing room in open revolt. According to Mundo Deportivo, citing Cadena Cope, Perez has received repeated complaints from the parents of two unnamed international players demanding their sons receive more opportunities under beleaguered manager Alvaro Arbeloa. While the development may appear relatively minor in isolation, it speaks…

Kyle Rittenhouse, the American conservative influencer acquitted of homicide in 2021 after fatally shooting two people during a Black Lives Matter protest, has been hospitalised following a venomous spider bite — and responded to the ordeal with characteristic defiance. The 23-year-old posted a photograph of himself in hospital, hooked up to heart monitors and intravenous drips, with visible red marks on his thigh consistent with a brown recluse spider bite. “The communists couldn’t take me out and I’ll be damned if I let a brown recluse take me out,” he wrote on social media. A brown recluse is a rarely…

Jewish passengers were left terrified after a man claiming to be armed with a knife subjected them to a torrent of antisemitic abuse on a London bus, threatening to kill Jewish children and telling them “shame Hitler didn’t kill you” — the latest in a rapidly escalating wave of attacks targeting the capital’s Jewish community. The incident took place on a number 254 bus travelling along Upper Clapton Road in Hackney on Thursday afternoon, with some passengers travelling to and from Stamford Hill, home to one of the largest ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in Britain. Witnesses said the man shouted that…

Explosions have struck Qeshm Island and the strategic port city of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran overnight, with Iranian state television confirming an active “exchange of fire” as American officials scrambled to insist the attacks did not signal an end to the fragile ceasefire — even as both sides edge closer to a sweeping peace deal. Iranian state TV reported in Farsi that “the explosions at the Bahman pier on Qeshm Island occurred during an exchange of fire between Iranian armed forces and the enemy.” Fox News, citing US officials, reported that airstrikes were also hitting Bandar Abbas, though those…

Explosions have been reported across southern Iran’s strategic coastal region near the Strait of Hormuz, with Iranian state media saying air defences intercepted drones over Qeshm Island and Bandar Abbas — as Iranian outlets began pointing the finger at the United Arab Emirates for the strikes in a development that threatens to dramatically escalate tensions in the region. The Mizan news agency, citing sources, reported that the explosions heard over Qeshm were caused by air defences downing several small and reconnaissance drones. Tasnim news agency also reported, citing sources, that two drones were intercepted by air defences over Bandar Abbas.…

German police have launched a desperate helicopter search for a 91-year-old woman who has been left stranded alone in a car somewhere in a forest, after her husband — who also suffers from severe dementia — wandered away to seek help and was later found 250 kilometres away with no memory of where he had left her. Ursula Obigt, who is almost completely blind, cannot walk, relies on a wheelchair and also has dementia, has been missing since Tuesday 5 May. She is believed to still be inside the grey MG ZS SUV she and her husband set out in…

A British YouTuber and independent journalist has been hospitalised with multiple facial fractures after he says he was ambushed and beaten by a group of militant protesters while filming the annual May Day demonstrations in Paris — an attack he describes as a targeted assault on press freedom. Wesley Winter, who has built a following of more than 200,000 subscribers covering protests and political events across Europe, was filming alone near Place de la Nation on 1 May when he says he was attacked. In a YouTube video titled “They tried to k*ll me… I’m still here” — which had…

A young mother of three from Chechnya is believed to have been murdered in an honour killing by her own father, who allegedly shaved her head, forced her to dig her own grave, and then shot her dead — while her husband was away fighting in Ukraine as part of Russia’s military. Zukhra Muzayeva, 25, disappeared from the Chechen village of Kurchaloy in late April. Her friends reported her missing, prompting an investigation by Novaya Gazeta Europe, which published the allegations and called on law enforcement agencies to investigate. Three independent sources told the outlet that Zukhra had been killed…