Новости за 21.07.2015

A man who was trying to give up smoking was caught lighting up a cigarette on Google Street View by his "fuming" wife.

Sinn Féin holds "very forthright" talks with Prime Minister David Cameron over welfare reform - the issue that has been threatening Stormont's future for months.

Durham's police and crime commissioner offers cannabis users the chance to avoid prosecution in a bid to stop a "cycle of reoffending".

Why a throwback subculture is today’s biggest trend

It is 90 years since Sir Malcolm Campbell set a world land speed record of 150mph and his grandson has marked the occasion by driving the very same car in the same location.

Changes to the way motorists pay the toll on the Severn Bridge are being considered for when it is back in public ownership, a minster says.

Victims of female genital mutilation are likely to be living in every area of England and Wales, a report says.

Surgeons in Manchester have performed the world's first bionic eye implant in a patient with the most common cause of sight loss in the developed world.

The government is defeated in the House of Lords over English votes for English laws, with peers calling for a joint committee to study its plans.

Is it true ‘they don’t make ‘em like they used to’?

The country's top civil servant warns of ministers being "hobbled" ahead of the EU referendum unless so-called "purdah" rules are relaxed.

The chair of the Iraq Inquiry has repeatedly refused offers of extra assistance to help speed up the report, the head of the Civil Service tells MPs.

A rocket-powered punt fuelled by Chelsea buns has made its maiden voyage in Cambridge.

A five-day-old seal pup which was separated from its mum in a Lincolnshire creek and ended up in a field of cows is rescued.

The death of a baby girl just hours after being born is being investigated by a health board.

The father of a young man from Newtownabbey whose body was found in a hotel room in Ibiza says he is still trying to find out how his son died.

An 80-year-old athlete is awaiting verification of a possible new British hammer record after returning to the sport.

A driver spotted towing a car with a van strapped into the boot is stopped by police in Gloucester.

A Luton man, 24, is charged over an alleged plan to attack US military personnel in the UK, and attempting to join IS militants in Syria.

The RMT union suspends talks aimed at averting another Tube strike after highlighting an "emergency" safety issue.

Geraint Thomas crashes, deals with roadside abuse and helps keep Chris Froome in yellow in another routine Tour de France week.

A second body is found in the search for workers missing after a fire at a Cheshire wood flour mill.

Labour MPs who defied the leadership to vote against the government's Welfare Bill are accused of undermining attempts to regain power.

Chancellor George Osborne launches his spending review with a call for £20bn cuts to Whitehall budgets.

Eurotunnel say protestors have set fire to tyres and blocked a motorway exit leading to the Channel Tunnel.