Plans to support households facing a sharp rise in the cost of heating oil are to be announced by the government. Prices have surged since the outbreak of the US-Israeli war with Iran, pushing crude oil above one hundred dollars, around seventy five pounds, a barrel compared with seventy one before the conflict began. Support worth about fifty million pounds A mother has been charged with murder after her baby […]

London’s Burning actor John Alford has died in prison two months after being jailed for sexual assault. In January, Alford, whose real name was John Shannon, was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years after being found guilty of sexually assaulting two teenage girls in 2022. He rose to fame playing Billy Ray in the ITV drama London’s Burning and also appeared in BBC’s Grange Hill. A Prison Service spokesperson confirmed his death […]