All news by author: Laura Sharman

A picture of the bright blue life form, washed up on Dundee Beach near Darwin, Australia, shows its short tentacles and shiny body comparable to a disco ball

Tina Satchwell was aged 45 when she vanished from her home in Youghal, Ireland. Now, a major search is under way at her former home where remains have been found

Brogan Williams, of Wolverhampton, was initially told she had Covid lungs but doctors later diagnosed her with lung cancer and gave her just two weeks to live

Mckenna Leigh's parents were unaware their son had paid £180 for a stolen Honda 125, which he was not trained to ride, before he crashed it into another vehicle

Martin Jolly, of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, shared a 12-pack of beer with a friend before crashing into an elderly couple driving to see their daughter

Colette Fazackerley, 40, was said to be in high spirits when she was last seen hugging friends outside Bar 15 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Tameside before her death

HMP Coldingley in Surrey has been branded Britain's "no toilet prison" where inmates use bottles amid leaking toilet bases, blockages and a lack of toilet seats

The siblings claimed their "proud" dad Kenneth Grizzle disinherited them by mistake and questioned his understanding of the will since he struggled with reading

Danielle, 38, took her daughter Sophia to the doctor when she noticed an unusual lump protruding from her ribs which was later revealed to be a cancerous tumour

Kayleigh Smee, 33, threw her partner's eight-year-old dog Prince out the window of a third storey flat in Rochester, Kent, causing it to break its neck, a court heard

Stephen Bartle, 36, from Cornwall, woke up in a police cell in Bristol thinking he had been on holiday to Amsterdam -he pleaded guilty to being drunk on an aircraft

The 140-year-old painting shows Scottish poet Robert Burns and Highland Mary meeting on the bank of the River Ayr in 1786 with a rectangular mystery object in their hands

The double decker bus was left with its roof entirely ripped off after it crashed into a bridge in Glasgow on Sunday morning and triggered a huge emergency response

Members of the Animal Rising protest group sat down at tables reserved for other customers at Cail Bruich in Glasgow during the high-end restaurant's evening service

The handwritten note was found by the woman's mother-in-law who is now worried about where to park, despite leaving her car in a "perfectly legal" spot in Manchester

Baffling video footage shows what appears to be a person waving in the clouds surrounded by a rainbow-like halo on top of a mountain in the Sichuan province of China

Lyndsay Hebert, from Scotland, has been working at the Edinburgh Dungeon for 20 years, landing her first role as an actor before being promoted to performance manager

A court heard Paris Mayo asked her brother George to take out a black bin bag left on the front doorstep, which he noticed was "unusually heavy" and left streaks of blood once lifted

The six-month-old baby girl tragically died despite doctors' efforts to save her after she started having breathing difficulties on a family holiday in Antalya, Turkey

The train passenger was travelling on a Southeastern service towards West Dulwich Station in south London when he was attacked by a stranger who repeatedly punched him

Abdulrizak Ali Hersi, 32, from Limehouse London, was banned from "intentionally standing behind or next to any female he doesn't know in a public place" for 10 years

Cameron Richmond hurled anti-English abuse at a fellow partygoer and threw a glass at him, leaving him with his teeth "broken violently" at a family reunion in Perthshire

Dana Mustapha, from Cheshire, was described as having a look of "evil excitement" on one of several occasion when he was spotted pulling down his trousers, a court heard

The man was stabbed in the heart after allegedly commenting on a woman's breasts after she entered a food stall with her boyfriend and bodyguard in Malacca, Malaysia

Elen Thomas, from Wales, was not entitled to a refund when she missed her flight at Heathrow Airport where she was supposed to jet off to Japan with her 11-year-old son