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The vice president of British Petroleum hanged himself at his £2million home a week after he was made redundant, a coroner heard today.  Newly-married Nick Spencer, 61, was found dead at his luxury home where he lived with his wife Eve in Buckinghamshire in April. His inquest heard he spent a decade working for the oil giant BP when he was forced to leave the firm on March 31 this year. After he was told of the redundancy the successful father-of-two became depressed and worried about managing his finances, Eve told the coroner. In a statement she said: 'Since he was made redundant he had been depressed.  Newly-married Nick Spencer , 61, was found dead at his luxury home where he lived with his wife Eve in Buckinghamshire in April His inquest heard he spent a decade working for the oil giant BP when he was forced to leave the firm on March 31 this year. Pictured, his home in Buckinghamshire 'He had been looking for a new job and I felt he seemed positive but there was an oil cr

Police officers have been told they can use the coronavirus contact tracing app on their personal smartphones while working- 24 hours after they were told not to download them for 'technical reasons'.  The National Police Chiefs' Council had initially advised officers to hold off downloading the app on both personal and work devices pending a technical assessment. A spokesman denied any suggestion of 'security issues' or a policy reversal, saying such checks are standard procedure for any new software used on work-issued smartphones. Police officers were initially asked not to download the app due to technical issues Guidance distributed to chiefs on Tuesday still recommends that officers do not install the app on work handsets. It comes as officers at Lancashire Constabulary were told on Tuesday they should not carry their personal phones on duty and should ignore self-isolation warnings via the app on their own mobiles and call the force's own Covid-19 helpli

The malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine, that President Donald Trump took to protect himself from getting Covid-19 remains controversial as US scientists found that the drug does not prevent infection - but Australian researchers insist the opposite. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found that hydroxychloroquine, which was once thought to be a potential treatment for coronavirus, offers no protection. Around 6.3 per cent of hospital workers who took the drug regularly caught Covid-19, compared to 6.6 per cent of people who didn't, the team reported Tuesday.  The effect, they said, was 'negligible' and although a slightly higher proportion of people without the drug became sick, it was not a big enough difference to suggest hydroxychloroquine worked. Scientists behind the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute's COVID SHIELD trial in Melbourne, Australia, however, see a lot hope in that small percentage.  'The evidence that shows that the drug doesn’t particular

A flash that lit up the skies over parts of Pennsylvania and Ohio in the wee hours of Wednesday was probably a random meteor, an expert said. Many social media users around the Pittsburgh area reported seeing a streaking fireball shortly after 4 a.m. It remained in the skies for a short time before disappearing from view. A security camera at a property owned by Mark and Rosemary Sasala in New Lyme, Ohio, northwest of Pittsburgh, captured a brief, bright flash partially obscured by clouds around 4:20 a.m. Many social media users around the Pittsburgh area reported seeing a streaking fireball shortly after 4am  The fireball remained in the skies for a short time before disappearing from view Video taken from a dashcam showed the large object flying over Interstate 76 in Pennsylvania. The American Meteor Society, a nonprofit group, said it received more than 320 reports of a bright fireball over Ohio. Robert Lunsford, a society official, said the fireball was most likely a random mete

More Democratic voters than Republican ones in key battleground states have requested and returned their mail-in ballots for the November election - a sign that has GOP strategists worried President Donald Trump's attack on mail-in voting will backfire on their party. Of the more than 9 million voters who requested mail ballots as of Monday in five critical states where the data is available -  Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Maine and Iowa - 52 per cent were Democrats, 28 per cent were Republicans, and 20 per cent were unaffiliated. Additional internal Democratic and Republican Party data obtained by The Washington Post shows a similar trend in Ohio, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Wisconsin, the paper reported.  Republicans are so concerned that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has met with Trump twice on the issue, encouraging him to stop talking about mail balloting 'imprecisely,' a strategist told the paper.  Florida and North Carolina - two states were Trump

Britain today recorded 7,108 more coronavirus cases and another 71 deaths — including a three-month high of seven in Scotland.  Daily infections are up 15 per cent on last Wednesday's 6,178 and almost 80 per cent higher than on Wednesday two weeks ago. But Britain's infections are a far-cry from what they were during the darkest days of the crisis in March and April, when at least 100,000 people were getting struck down every day. The Department of Health data also adds to evidence that the death count is now slowly starting to climb after weeks of surging infections. For comparison, the number of victims announced today is almost double that of last Wednesday (37) and more than triple the figure a fortnight ago (20).  But the average number of victims each day (40) is still massively lower than the daily death tolls seen during the peak of the first wave, when more than 1,000 Britons were succumbing to the life-threatening infection every day.   At a Downing Street Covid-19 co

A Florida man was videoed on his own dashcam as he fired a shotgun through his the windshield of his car at a fellow driver.    The man behind the wheel, Marco Mazzetta, posted the video to YouTube claiming he was trying to defend himself after he believing he was in danger of being shot himself.  Mazzetta, who was driving along a highway in Orange County near Orlando said he only pulled his gun out after another driver, who was also caught on camera, began shooting at him first.    A man was caught on camera shooting through his own windshield at another driver on a busy highway near Orlando, Florida Driver, Marco Mazzetta, posted the video on YouTube claiming he was simply trying to defend himself  Footage shows another driver coming up close behind Mazzetta's truck Dashcam video shows the other driver's car driving aggressively and at one point passing extremely close to Mazzetta's truck.   Mazzetta then tapped his breaks causing the other car to bump into him from behin

Courtney Roznowski was jailed after having sex with a 16-year-old high school student in Green Bay, Wisconsin  A disgraced school worker has been jailed for six months after having sex with a 16-year-old high school student - who allegedly told cops that 'it is every kid's dream to do a teacher'. Courtney Roznowski was branded the 'nightmare of every parent' by a judge as he sentenced her to prison.  Roznowski admitted a charge of exposing herself to a minor under a plea deal which saw more serious sexual assault counts dropped.  The 32-year-old was handed the six-month sentence at a hearing last Friday where she told the court in  Green Bay, Wisconsin, that 'I know what I did was wrong', according to Fox11.  But judge Donald Zuidmulder said he was 'unimpressed' by her pleas for understanding, calling her actions 'appalling'.  'You are, frankly, the nightmare of every parent. Because what a parent assumes is that their child is in safe e

Police have released shocking footage showing the moment two people battered a man to the ground and stole his cash during a violent street robbery.  The victim was approached from behind before being jumped on Hunters Road, in the Lozells area of Birmingham, on May 25.  CCTV footage shows the suspects, both wearing hoods and masks, punching the man to the ground after following him back to his car around 9.15pm.  The victim was approached from behind before being jumped on Hunters Road, in the Lozells area of Birmingham, on May 25 CCTV footage shows the suspects, both wearing hoods and masks, following the victim back to his car around 9.15pm West Midlands Police have released the footage in a bid to catch the pair and urge anyone who recognises them to get in touch The victim can be seen trying to fight back before he is eventually floored by the blows.  Cash falls out of the victim's pockets and spills across the road.  The victim grabs his phone, which was also dropped during