All news by author: Michael Moran

Benidorm is the holiday destination that Brits love to hate, with hordes of UK tourists flocking to the Costa Blanca resort every year - but your can find a more authentically Spanish experience just 20 minutes up the road

As fears grow for missing Brit teen Jay Slater, there's increasing focus on international crime groups – including the secretive ‘Ndrangheta – who are channeling drug money into property on Tenerife

Atlantic City once prided itself as being 'America's Playground,' but just as bargain breaks to Europe emptied out Britain's resorts so cheap flights to the Caribbean have killed the Boardwalk Empire

It's a famously laid-back Somerset town where you can see witches, wizards, and barefoot tambourine players – as well as the likes of Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA

Robert Picton inherited a pig farm worth millions after his parents died - but it was his raves in the slaughterhouse that would eventually lead to his downfall

International superstar Michael Jackson – who died 15 years ago today (June 25) – had dreams of a honorary knighthood and even fantasised about marrying Princess Diana, says his former bodyguard

Podcaster Joe Fish has visited some of the UK's most deprived areas, but says the streets of the Danish capital are 'spotless' - even in the worst areas

Robert Maudsley, and Charles Bronson were locked in a bitter war of nerves in so-called 'monster mansion' HMP Wakefield, after former bareknuckle fighter Bronson tried to send Maudsley a gift

Although the roots of the sausage roll can be traced back to Roman times, it is seen as a quintessentially British snack – but where can you find the best one?

Hugely successful Traveller entrepreneur Alfie Best Jr., who caused a stir with his shock conversion to Islam, has explained why – for him – Islam is the perfect religion

A Brit locked up in a Spain jail has told how there was 'no health and safety' in the notorious Spanish jail where he spent three years for drug smuggling

Only the very brave, or the very foolish, would venture into this abandoned 18th-Century mansion with a dark past – and some very dodgy floorboards

Former Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond nearly died back in 2006 when a supercar he was driving for the show crashed and he's now shared a heartbreaking conversation he had with his daughter

In the mid-1960s, the Soho demi-monde was a strange mix of showbiz personalities and ruthless gangsters – and that gave rise to some unpredictable chemistry

Hugh Hefner's widow Crystal Hefner has angrily hit back at claims she 'doped up' the late Playboy founder in his final years, firing off a legal letter to one of his former "girlfriends"

Cheryl McCain, 63, is expecting a baby with her toyboy husband Quran McCain, 26, after the couple employed a surrogate to help them bring their child into the world

Terrance, from Atlanta in the US, has always been attracted to plus-sized women and his romance with girlfriend Nikki is actually his third "mixed-size" relationship

Officer Tyler Beddoes was one of the first at the scene of a fatal car accident where the vehicle had ploughed into a freezing cold river and to this day has never forgotten what he heard

British former inmate Natalie Welsh described life inside Venezuela's notorious San Antonio prison as 'like a war zone' - and revealed how inmates patrolled the walls with shotguns

Croydon is regularly named as having London's highest rate of violent crime by Metropolitan Police data, as residents tell podcaster Wendall their fears about leaving their homes

Blackpool was once the UK's most popular seaside resort, but while locals dub it as a 's***hole' - many are quick to point out it boasts the UK's cheapest pint

Former inmate Jessica Kent has opened up on prison life and claimed that prison guards are having sex with inmates 'all the time' but says that it's often for the wrong reasons

The Korowai people of Papua, Indonesia, are thought to be one of the last known societies to practice cannibalism, eating the bodies of those killed by evil spirits to 'protect them from further harm'

Urban explorer Wendall visited the town of Paignton in Tor Bay, Devon, after seeing it described as having "nothing to for children to do"

If you enjoy searching for UFOs, hunting Bigfoot or being around any other freaky paranormal phenomena, book your flights to Alaska - to visit the small area which has the highest recorded number of paranormal incidents in the world