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    Sinead Connett admitted to concealing her baby in a towel and three Marks and Spencer's plastic bags before putting him into a drainage pit at the bottom of her parents' garden. Connett, 29, told officers she had been shocked to discover she was pregnant and was terrified her partner would leave her. The newborn baby boy was hidden away for almost three years without her family's knowledge before a plumber made the devastating discovery. Sentencing Connett to 12 months in prison for concealing the birth of a child, Judge Jeremy Richardson described the act as so dreadful that it almost defies description. The discovery was made after her father called in a plumber after having problems with the drains at his home. Judge Richardson said: I have made the decision that you wi...

    Richard Branson has revealed details of his long-running feud with Donald Trump, publishing a scathing letter he received from the then New York property mogul in 2004. Mr Trump wrote to the Virgin brand founder after he launched a short-lived programme, The Rebel Billionaire: Branson’s Quest for the Best, with a similar format to The Apprentice. Excerpts from the letter are reproduced in Mr Branson’s new book, Finding My Virginity. At least your dismal ratings can now allow you to concentrate on your airline which, I am sure, needs every ounce of your energy,” Mr Trump wrote. It is obviously a terrible business and I can’t imagine, with fuel prices etc, that you can be doing any better in it than anyone else. Like television, you should try to get out the airline business...

    Buckingham Palace was infuriated with Theresa May after she misled the Queen about the progress of negotiations as she sought to form a government, it has been reported. Tensions are said to have arisen between senior courtiers and Downing Street after the Prime Minister said she had secured the support of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), only for it to take another 17 days before a deal was finalised. The palace was further irritated by Ms May breaching protocol as she announced her intention to form a government on the steps of Downing Street, the Sunday Times reported. A Tory peer told the newspaper: She said, I've formed a government, not The Queen has asked me to form a government. The palace was alarmed by her formulation of words. The affair did not prompt a for...

    Apologising for a June election when she lost her Conservative Party's majority, Prime Minister Theresa May responded to her critics on Sunday by saying she had the right strategy to lead Britain and win a Brexit deal. May, who has faced calls from within her party to step down, wants to use the Conservatives annual conference in the northern English city of Manchester this week to try to reset her agenda, offering money to students and those people she once described as "just about managing in Britain. In an interview with BBC television, she played down the rifts among top ministers, saying they were united on their programme and more importantly Brexit. That came a day after foreign minister Boris Johnson, perhaps May's biggest rival, set out four personal red lines in ...

    A kebab shop supplier who used a cement mixer to manufacture chicken doner meat has been jailed and ordered to pay more than £50,000. Sukru Ahmet, 60, who sold meat to takeaways and other food businesses across London and the South-East, was found to be storing six tonnes of frozen poultry which had expired or did not have a use-by date. His company, UK Chicken Doner and Poultry Ltd, also sold German-made doner kebabs falsely labelled as British. When hygiene inspectors raided Ahmet’s processing plant in Swanley, Kent, they found a converted cement mixer being used to process meat. At Maidstone crown court yesterday Ahmet, of Sidcup, was jailed for four months and ordered to pay, with his company, £53,760 in fines and costs. Hygiene inspectors found a converted cement mixe...