Heartless’ BBC hounded more than 520,000 over-75s to pay for a TV licence as the pandemic deepened BBC chased more than 520,000 over-75s to pay TV licence by end of November Letters told recipients to ‘arrange payment’ or apply for a free licence if entitled Free TV licences are now restricted to those people receiving … Read more
Heartless dog owner leaves lurcher called Steve tied to lamppost with broken leg – before passer-by rescues the pet and animal charity nurses him back to health Two-year-old Steve was spotted by a passerby on the street in Canterbury, Kent He was then moved to an RSPCA hospital to have his front legs fixed Steve … Read more
Detectives arrest two after heartless crooks stole purse and iPhone from woman, 84, as she lay dying in bed after they lied to her blind husband, 87, that they were calling an ambulance Dorothy Crowther was dying in her bed in Brierfield, Lancashire, on October 16 Blind husband Ronald, 87, was desperately trying to get … Read more
Annastacia Palaszczuk welled up on national television on Friday morning as she fronted the cameras for the first time since refusing to let a 26-year-old nurse attend her father’s funeral. The Queensland premier choked back tears as she refuted allegations she was ‘cold-hearted and nasty’ for keeping grieving families apart with draconian border closures while letting … Read more
Rio Tinto is no stranger to ethical problems. It currently is involved in tussles from the Gobi desert in Mongolia to Guinea in Africa, where it has been embroiled in bribery allegations. Given this torrid recent history one might have expected chairman Simon Thompson to have taken the protests from big Australian and UK investor … Read more
A desperate appeal has been launched after heartless thieves stole flags and pictures from a memorial to a World War II bomber crew who sacrificed their lives in a crash to save children playing in a park. Tributes have been snatched from the Mi Amigo memorial site in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Tony Foulds, who looks after … Read more
The coronavirus lockdown is providing rich pickings for heartless criminals. So far they have cheated victims out of £2 million, using the fear of Covid-19 to launch a wave of scams that experts describe as ‘sick’. TOBY WALNE and RACHEL WAIT advise you on how to thwart the fraudsters. FINES FOR BREAKING FAKE LOCKDOWN RULES … Read more
A masked thief ransacked an NHS office and stole personal protective equipment (PPE) in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. The vital items were stolen by the balaclava-clad thief during a raid on an office in Salford, Greater Manchester. Alongside protective equipment, which is in short supply in medical facilities across the country as doctors … Read more
Heartless trolls have criticised Bindi Irwin and Chandler Powell for getting married amid the coronavirus pandemic. The couple rushed down the aisle on Wednesday just hours after prime minister Scott Morrison enforced restrictions on weddings with more than five people in attendance. The late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin’s daughter, 21, and her wakeboarder husband, 23, … Read more