Schoolboy, 14, appears in court charged with murder of 15-year-old lad

A 14-year-old boy has appeared in court charged with murder and possession of a firearm after a schoolboy was killed in a gun and knife attack. Keon Lincoln, 15, was set upon by a group of youths with weapons in broad daylight on Linwood Road in the Handsworth area of Birmingham on January 21. On … Read more

Pictured: ‘Top lad’ whose body was found in Yorkshire flat as woman is arrested for murder

Pictured: ‘Top lad’ whose body was found in Yorkshire flat shortly after he began new relationship as woman is arrested for murder Casey Bellwood was found dead by paramedics in a flat in Yorkshire yesterday Police called and an adult female was arrested with a cordon remaining in place Neighbour and friends have paid tribute … Read more

‘Party lad’, 23, accused of being behind Bolton’s coronavirus case spike was ‘always having parties’

A ‘party lad’ thought to be behind Bolton’s coronavirus case spike ‘always had parties and people round’ after returning from his six-week Ibiza holiday, neighbours say.  Construction worker Layton Migas, 23, spent six weeks sunning himself on the Ibiza island Es Vedra before returning to his home in Bolton on August 20.  His neighbours have … Read more

The troubled lad who dances to heal himself: Christopher Stevens reviews last night’s TV

Soul Boy – Our Lives Rating: Men At The Barre – Inside The Royal Ballet Rating: When it comes to dance, every bloke is either a Baryshnikov or an Ed Balls, an athletic paragon or a Strictly heffalump. At any wedding disco, I resemble a broken Meccano kit with joints spinning in odd directions. That … Read more

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Look who’s lording it with the aristos… Liver Bird Beryl’s lad 

Belgravia Rating: Celebrity Murder Mystery Rating: How outdated it all seems, the emphasis on good breeding and the reverence shown to sons and nephews of earls in the Victorian London of Belgravia (ITV).  It wouldn’t happen now, eh? But the aristocracy of tellyland is just as convoluted and interwoven as the family trees in Burke’s … Read more