When the couple bought their three-bedroom home in Swindon in 2007 they borrowed £205,000 from Northern Rock. And they were encouraged to take a loan of £30,000 for home improvements. But after the collapse of Northern Rock their home loan was sold
Three armed drones were shot down in Iraq on Tuesday, near where U.S. and other international forces are stationed, officials said. Iraqi Kurdistan’s counter-terrorism service said its forces intercepted and shot down the drones over Erbil airport in northern Iraq at around
Snow blanketed parts of the country on Monday, as Arctic temperatures sparked warnings of travel and power cut chaos. Seven Met Office snow or ice warnings are in place for Scotland, Northern Ireland, northern England and Wales until Friday morning. Experts fear
Iran announced late Monday that it had launched strikes against a “spy headquarters and the gathering of anti-Iranian terrorist groups” shortly after missiles hit an area near the U.S. consulate in Irbil, the seat of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region. Soon after, a
The Israeli military says it killed four militants attempting to cross Israel’s northern border from Lebanon on Sunday. The incident comes as Israel’s tensions with Hezbollah, the Iran-backed terrorist group operating in Lebanon, continue to spike. IDF soldiers patrolling the border encountered
Authorities in the northern Mexico border state of Sonora said Wednesday that a local Cucapah Indigenous leader, Aronia Wilson, has been found dead. 9 BODIES FOUND IN VEHICLES NEAR MEXICAN FUEL PIPELINE Known in Mexico as Cucapahs, members of the Cocopah Indian
Iraqi forces shot down an armed drone on Tuesday over the Erbil airport in northern Iraq, where U.S. and other international forces are stationed, according to a report. The Kurdistan Counter Terrorism, an Iraqi semi-autonomous regional security agency, said an “illegal militia”
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Three gunmen pulled up to a party early on Friday in northern Mexico and opened fire on partygoers, killing six people and wounding 26 others. Two of the dead were under 18 years old, and five of the
A former British soldier will stand trial in the killing of two civil rights protesters half a century ago on Bloody Sunday, one of the deadliest days of the decades-long conflict in Northern Ireland, a judge said Thursday. The former paratrooper is
A mum has been left horrified after a Northern Rail conductor allegedly threw her 15-year-old son off a train on his way to school. Jennifer Hurrell, the mother of teenager Marley, said he boarded the Wigan train at Appleby Bridge with his