#BazakeFactCheck: Did Boris Johnson's mother-in-law appear in the audience of Question Time?

It has been claimed by posts on social media that Josephine McAfee was used as an audience plant on the BBC's flagship political debate show

#BazakeFactCheck Team

14 year old boy told he 'would never walk again' signs for Arsenal's academy

Joe Trent's story is a heartwarming tale of overcoming adversity that will delight all football supporters

Joe Douglas Home

We Meet The People Affected By The Rail Strike

Up and down the country people's daily lives have been turned upside down by the RMT's strike.

Joe Douglas Home

What would Princess Di look like if she was still alive?

Top university boffins have accurately predicted what Diana, Princess of Wales would look like today, and the internet was SHOOK

Elektra Rusbridger

Meet Captain Tom The Cluster Bomb

British arms manufacturer names new weapons system in honour of the late Captain Sir Tom Moore

Elektra Rusbridger

London improv comedy night raided by armed police for using ‘scripted material’

The event held in Streatham had reportedly repeated the same scene featuring an unflattering parody of the prime minister working in a failing sandwich shop for three months.

Joe Douglas Home

April Fool's hoax opinion poll reportedly sparked wild celebrations at Labour HQ

Eyewitness accounts claim the Twitter prank led to drunken dancing, nudity, sex acts and abusive phone calls to staffers' own elderly relatives.

Joe Douglas Home

Man who tried to prove poor people can eat for £5 per week told he has done “irreparable damage to his colon”

Tory activist given grim prognosis after year long diet challenge intended to silence "poverty whingers"

Elektra Rusbridger

London football club manager set to sue Exeter City over motivational hashtag copyright infringement

Taff Goose of non-league side Streatham Rovers is furious about the use of #NeverStopNotGivingUp in a poem printed in another football club’s match programme.

Joe Douglas Home

Stonehenge was built in bid to host ancient Olympics say top archaeologists.

The ancient sight was built as a "giant sundial stopwatch" but ultimately failed in its objective to host ancient games.

Elektra Rusbridger

Mortuary worker sacked for using corpses in comedy TikTok videos

TikTok star defended by free speech campaigners after viral success of his corpse-based comedy sketches.

Elektra Rusbridger

Research reveals that Londoners would only wait 12 hours after a nuclear attack before eating cats and dogs

The average Briton will last almost nine days before desperation leads to them harvesting family pets for meat but, as ever, Londoners are little bit different.

Joe Douglas Home

London street artist VULVA sparks outrage by using pigment from endangered monkey’s scrotum for estate agent mural

The anonymous artist known as VULVA, described as “the new Banksy”, claimed in a now deleted Instagram post that it was the only way to get the perfect blue to realise their vision.

Joe Douglas Home

Beloved family pet put down because it "looks like Putin"

Peter and Alice Alnwick talk of their "heartache" at having their pet dog, Milo, put down.

Elektra Rusbridger

Putin may be terminally ill and only have months left to live, ex-MI6 man says

Former Russia expert at intelligence agency likens Putin's behaviour to estranged wife who experimented with group sex following cancer diagnosis.

Joe Douglas Home

Obituary: Her Majesty The Queen

A tribute to Her Majesty The Queen, who passed away today.

Spencer Knox

"New Captain Tom" to feature at Six Nations

Major Colin Rumbelow to be honoured at Twickenham as he rides to Ukraine warzone on his mobility scooter.

Elektra Rusbridger

Stuffed Eagle Desecrated In Lancashire Museum

Man arrested having broken into a museum in an unusal attempt to resist Russian oppression in Ukraine

Phil Hitchens

Could this man be the new Captain Tom?

Colin Rumbelow, a retired army Major, sets off for the Ukraine on his mobility scooter.

Elektra Rusbridger

Man who blamed Giles Paley-Phillips tweet for "trail of destruction" found guilty of arson and assault

Judge sentences Parker Moules to eight years following “eccentric” self-defence which claimed a kind-hearted tweet inspired the carnage.

Joe Douglas Home

'International Brigade' of western visual satirists help defend Ukraine from Putin's Russia

Photomontage artists and video editors take the fight to the heart of the Kremlin with savage attacks on Vladimir Putin

Joe Douglas Home

Tory MP calls on EA Sports to sanction Russia by removing teams from FIFA

Red Wall member of parliament makes demand but resists calls for financial sanctions of foreign assets

Joe Douglas Home

“School is too late!” Meet the owner of Britain's Strictest Baby and Toddler Group

Oliver Laughdugry sits down to brunch with Sandra Coalville, the controversial disciplinarian owner of Wondertots Rhythm & Rhyme Time.

Oliver Laughdugry

‘Free speech warrior’ and dating guru feared dead after falling off cliff during Storm Eunice

Archie Urquhart is known for his commitment to freedom of speech, campaigning for the return of eugenics and burning feminist literature at a university campus.

Joe Douglas Home

Actor develops incontinence and insomnia after ‘dark, gritty’ pantomime performance

Darren West, known for roles in The Bill and Casualty, held nothing back as he strove for perfection as King Rat in Dick Whittington.

Joe Douglas Home

Top Prof says BTS "Bottom of the Pops"

Scientists at top uni says the K-pop superstars are the worst band in history

Elektra Rusbridger

Margaret Thatcher sought to arm bus conductors after a Tory MP was urinated on by children

National Archive files reveal aides had to stall the prime minister’s security scheme which she “became increasingly obsessed with”.

Joe Douglas Home

Football stadium food vendor hospitalised after 'accidentally slam dunking own head' into deep fat fryer

Chaos was unleashed by misplaced shot during the second-half of an Xtermin8 Rat Poison Football League match in South London

Joe Douglas Home

“World’s Swolest Baby” revealed to be thirty-year-old train conductor from Russia

Anger as viral TikTok star exposed as fraud

Elektra Rusbridger

Ship Saved: the Wordle clue that saved lives

A drowning captain brought to his senses by the viral web based game.

Phil Hitchens

Belfast street art tour guide attacked by British and American tourists

Savage attack was carried out by frustrated customers who wanted to see sites from the city's troubled past.

Damien Greig