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What we USED to do to shoplifters: How the courts used to sentence professional thieves to hard labour – or kick them out of the country if they were foreign Reports in the Daily Mail from a century ago show punishments for shoplifting  Woman was given hard labour in 1899 for stealing lace, ribbons and […]

SARA Sharif’s fugitive dad is heading back to Britain tonight after fleeing to Pakistan a month ago – and now faces questions over her alleged murder. Urfan Sharif is believed to be flying back to the UK a month after ten-year-old Sara was found dead at home in Woking, Surrey. Police now have the opportunity […]

THE world's deepest bunker stretches to 6,500 feet underground and can hold up to a million people. China's nuclear command bunker is said to be the "deepest in the world" and has been described as a "small city". Buried up to 2,000 metres down, the Joint Operations Command Centre is the highest level headquarters in […]

Thames Water outage: Full list of places across London left without water All you need to know about which parts of London are affected by water outage  READ MORE: Thames Water status updates LIVE Schools have been forced to close and thousands of homes across London have been left without water or with low pressure […]

A JAPANESE man has spent almost £13,000 transforming himself into a real-life dog – and now wants to find his Lassie. Pooch-wannabe "Toco" gained fame after posting a clip of himself in his ultra-realistic Collie costume as he walked down the streets of Tokyo. Speaking to the New York Post, Toco said after gaining confidence walking […]

Drunk teenage girl, 19, who brutally attacked woman in the street avoids jail and is ordered to pay £50 after court heard she was ‘provoked’ because she was racially abused Student Kareena Ijaz-Woodward, 19, attacked woman following ‘racist abuse’ She was ordered to pay £50 damages to Samantha Hulme by magistrates A teenage girl who […]

Mother, 47, dies after undergoing whole-body liposuction at Russian clinic: Family claim she was pressured into procedure after going in for a facelift Anna Andrea had fat removed from almost every part of her body in procedure  Dr Maria Burlova (Levitskaya), head of Abriell Clinic, carried out the operation Police are investigating how a woman […]

‘Alien’ bodies with three fingered hands and feet are presented by UFO expert at Mexican congress – with the ‘non-humans’ found in Peru said to be 1,000 years old Journalist Jaime Maussan described the event as a ‘watershed’ moment  This is the moment a UFO investigator presented two allegedly ‘non human’ bodies to a congress […]

Nervous, Vladimir? Putin’s odd leg twitching returns as he sits opposite Kim Jong Un ahead of discussions to buy much-needed artillery from North Korea Video shows Putin bizarrely twisting his foot and struggling with twitching leg  He met with Kim Jong Un today at Russian space base to discuss arms deal New footage shows Vladimir […]

The ‘unlikely oil man’ who grew up on a dairy farm and dumped his wife via WhatsApp: How perma-tanned fitness fanatic Bernard Looney climbed the ranks to becoming BP tycoon before quitting in storm of controversy The boss of BP, who quit last night in a storm of controversy, is a perma-tanned fitness fanatic who […]