Steve Hopkins

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Steve is the deputy director of editorial at Joe. He manages Joe.co.uk and oversees the trending news team, where he helps cover the most talked about news, politics, sports and entertainment stories. Steve joined Joe in May 2021 from HuffPost UK.

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  • Shocking video shows runner getting punched in the head during high school race

    Shocking video shows runner getting punched in the head during high school race

    The runner had reportedly earlier asked his attacker to move off the track A wild sucker-punch has been caught on camera that knocked a high school runner over and shocked onlookers. The punch occurred at the Tohopekaliga Tiger Invitational in Kissimmee, Florida on Saturday, which saw athletes from 27 schools competing. According to Canadian Running […]

    4 years ago

  • British Airways hit again by ‘technical’ failure that has delayed flights

    British Airways hit again by ‘technical’ failure that has delayed flights

    This is the second time the airline has experienced IT problems in recent weeks British Airways flights are being affected by a “technical issue”, the airline announced on Wednesday afternoon, in the latest in a series of damaging IT problems. BA said in a statement: “We’re investigating and working hard to resolve a technical issue and […]

    4 years ago

  • Record-breaking Nasa astronaut returns to Earth on Russian craft after year-long stay

    Record-breaking Nasa astronaut returns to Earth on Russian craft after year-long stay

    Mark Vande Hei set a new record for the longest stay aboard the International Space Station A Nasa astronaut returned to Earth aboard a Russian craft on Wednesday, breaking the record for the longest single spaceflight by an astronaut at 355 days. Mark Vande Hei broke the previous record for the longest stay aboard the […]

    4 years ago

  • Over 200 babies could have survived with proper care, damning NHS report finds

    Over 200 babies could have survived with proper care, damning NHS report finds

    The report by Donna Ockenden is thought to be largest of its kind in NHS history Hundreds of babies died or were left disabled due to poor care during birth, a damning report released on Wednesday has revealed. The report into baby deaths and maternity failings at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust (SaTH) […]

    4 years ago

  • Drunk man falls 100ft off cliff – gets up and runs away

    Drunk man falls 100ft off cliff – gets up and runs away

    The man was said to have ‘self-recovered and departed the scene’ A drunk man fell off a 100ft cliff in Dorset but then got up and ran away and couldn’t be found – not even by a police helicopter. The man took a tumble off Hengistbury Head cliff, Dorset, at 4:16pm on Monday, Southbourne Coastguard […]

    4 years ago

  • CCTV shows man throw up outside pub before hilariously slipping over in it

    CCTV shows man throw up outside pub before hilariously slipping over in it

    ‘That’s how we roll in Adelaide’ A video has gone viral showing a man leaving a bar in Australia in the most disgraceful way possible. The man, who has not been publicly identified, is caught on CCTV projectile vomiting as he leaves Adelaide’s Woolshed on Hindley Street, as two people enjoy a more civilised beverage at […]

    4 years ago

  • UK Covid cases soar by around a million in a week, new data shows

    UK Covid cases soar by around a million in a week, new data shows

    Covid hasn’t gone away Covid cases in the UK jumped by around a million in a week, data by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows. There were 4,261,100 infections in the seven days to 19 March, according to the data – an almost 30 per cent jump on the previous week, Sky News reports. […]

    4 years ago

  • Urgent warning as killer escapes from prison for second time

    Urgent warning as killer escapes from prison for second time

    Shane Farrington killed a prisoner in his cell at HMP Peterborough Police are warning the public not to approach a convicted killer who has escaped prison for the second time. Shane Farrington was last seen at HMP Thorn Cross in Appleton, Warrington, at 6.45pm on Thursday. Police are currently carrying out a number of inquiries […]

    4 years ago

  • Parents turned pornstars make £35k a month filming ‘realistic’ sex life

    Parents turned pornstars make £35k a month filming ‘realistic’ sex life

    ‘My friend messaged me asking if I was a pornstar and my heart sank as I didn’t know how she knew’ A British couple with two children who started selling videos of them having “realistic” sex to help cover their mortgage payments, now make £35k a month. Jess Miller and her husband Mike started producing […]

    4 years ago

  • Terrified neighbours call police over tiger in back garden – it was a cuddly toy

    Terrified neighbours call police over tiger in back garden – it was a cuddly toy

    Officers really earned their stripes on this callout A terrified neighbour who reported seeing a tiger in a nearby back garden was left red-faced after police discovered that it was actually a cuddly toy. An unnamed resident, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, called the emergency services on Tuesday evening after spotting the huge predator “pawing in […]

    4 years ago

  • CCTV shows moment champion darts player batters neighbour with brick

    CCTV shows moment champion darts player batters neighbour with brick

    Paul ‘Cookie’ Cook won the News of the World Championship in 1990 and the Plymouth Open in 2015 CCTV has captured the moment a champion darts player battered his neighbour with a brick over an ongoing parking feud. Paul ‘Cookie’ Cook injured pensioner Stephen Leonard, who he had known for 30 years, outside his home […]

    4 years ago

  • London Aquatics Centre: Emergency services respond to ‘major incident’ in Stratford

    London Aquatics Centre: Emergency services respond to ‘major incident’ in Stratford

    The London Fire Brigade said they are dealing with reports of a ‘chemical incident’ A “major incident” has been declared at London Aquatics Centre in Stratford with emergency services treating “a number of patients” suffering from “breathing difficulties”. The London Ambulance Service (LAS),  London Fire Brigade, and the Metropolitan Police were at the centre on Queen […]

    4 years ago

  • Builder get 51 driving fines in single day leaving him with £6k bill

    Builder get 51 driving fines in single day leaving him with £6k bill

    And he had an exemption to use the road! A builder received 51 driving fines in a single day after he repeatedly drove down a residents-only road – leaving him with a £6,000 bill. John Barrett says he accrued the charges over a five-month period – but they were all delivered to his door at […]

    4 years ago

  • Viral video divides internet after basketball player appears to touch cheerleader’s chest

    Viral video divides internet after basketball player appears to touch cheerleader’s chest

    Bennedict Mathurin appeared to be gesturing to the crowd when the incident happened A video of a star university basketball player has gone viral amid suggestions it shows him touching a cheerleader’s chest as he exits the court. Officials at the University of Arizona and TCU have reportedly been in communication following Sunday’s game when […]

    4 years ago

  • Dog attack death: Toddler killed in St Helens named as Bella-Rae Birch

    Dog attack death: Toddler killed in St Helens named as Bella-Rae Birch

    The family had only had the dog for a week The baby girl who died after a dog attack in St Helens on Monday has been named as Bella-Rae Birch. The 17-month-old was attacked at an address on Bidston Avenue, Blackbrook at around 3.50pm. Emergency services attended the scene and Bella-Rae was taken to hospital […]

    4 years ago

  • Woman paid $25,000 to clone her soulmate cat that died

    Woman paid $25,000 to clone her soulmate cat that died

    Kelly Anderson said she was ‘heartbroken’ after Chai passed away A woman paid almost £19,000 ($25,000) to clone her soulmate cat after it died at the age of five leaving her “heartbroken”. Professional dog trainer Kelly Anderson decided to clone her beloved pet Chai in 2017 after she died from post-op complications, but it took several […]

    4 years ago

  • The most boring person in the world revealed – according to experts

    The most boring person in the world revealed – according to experts

    Boring people are also perceived to be incompetent The most boring person in the world has apparently been identified, through a peer-reviewed study, that also found that people that aren’t very interesting are also perceived to be “incompetent”. According to the University of Essex, the unfortunate person is a data analyst, who is religious, lives […]

    4 years ago

  • Sarah Everard killer Wayne Couzens faces four new charges

    Sarah Everard killer Wayne Couzens faces four new charges

    Wayne Couzens is due to appear in court next month Former Met Police officer Wayne Couzens has been charged with four counts of indecent exposure which allegedly took place in the weeks before he murdered Sarah Everard in March 2021. The Crown Prosecution Service announced the charges on Friday, saying the alleged offences took place […]

    4 years ago

  • Kanye West has finally been suspended from Instagram

    Kanye West has finally been suspended from Instagram

    Ye has been abusing Pete Davidson via Instagram for several months Kanye West has been temporarily suspended from Instagram after he attacked ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, and her new boyfriend, Pete Davidson, in posts the platform said violated their policies on “hate speech, harassment and bullying”. A spokesperson for the platform’s parent company, Meta, confirmed the […]

    4 years ago

  • CCTV shows heroic moment woman steps in front of knife attacker to stop assault

    CCTV shows heroic moment woman steps in front of knife attacker to stop assault

    Footage of the attack shows Glen Woolford punching the victim to the ground and striking him with the knife handle CCTV footage shows the heroic moment a woman steps in to stop a knife attack after he beats a man to the ground in a shocking attack in broad daylight. Glen Woolford was caught on […]

    4 years ago

  • Leonardo DiCaprio makes donation to Ukraine after incorrect reports published

    Leonardo DiCaprio makes donation to Ukraine after incorrect reports published

    The actor has made donations to several humanitarian groups Leonardo DiCaprio is said to have made donations to humanitarian organisations supporting Ukraine after earlier reports falsely suggested he had contributed £7.6m to the country. On March 8, Polish News published a now-deleted story saying that DiCaprio donated $10m (£7.6m) to his grandmother’s native country of […]

    4 years ago

  • Mates crowd fund to buy island and start own country

    Mates crowd fund to buy island and start own country

    Here we were dreaming of owning a house It is something we’ve all probably dreamed of – owning our own island. But normally it is something reserved for only the very rich and famous. But, that’s not the case for two mates, Gareth Johnson and Marshall Mayer, who launched a project in 2018 to crowdsource […]

    4 years ago

  • Chilling moment triple-killer walks 5-months-pregnant victim to her death

    Chilling moment triple-killer walks 5-months-pregnant victim to her death

    Anthony Russell is expected to be jailed for life for the crimes on Friday A man who murdered three people during a six-day killing spree has been convicted of raping his final victim – who was five months pregnant – before strangling her with her own legging and dumping her by a river with twigs, […]

    4 years ago

  • This Morning live show pulled from ITV after ‘suspicious item’ found

    This Morning live show pulled from ITV after ‘suspicious item’ found

    Police were called to Television Centre in west London and White City and Wood Lane stations were closed This Morning was pulled from air on Thursday and emergency footage was shown instead after ITV staff were evacuated from Television Centre in west London following a “security alert”. Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby were presenting the […]

    4 years ago

  • Father shoots dead ‘seven-day-old baby girl because he wanted a boy’

    Father shoots dead ‘seven-day-old baby girl because he wanted a boy’

    Hundreds of infants are reportedly found dumped each year –  most are girls A Pakistani dad has been arrested on suspicion of shooting dead his seven-day-old baby girl because he reportedly wanted his firstborn to be a boy. The baby named Jannat – meaning ‘heaven’ in Urdu – was shot four times on Monday at […]

    4 years ago

  • Drunk man jailed for attacking another man with a seagull

    Drunk man jailed for attacking another man with a seagull

    Paul Elcombe picked up the injured bird then used it as a weapon A drunk thug has been jailed after he attacked a man – with a seagull. Paul Elcombe threw the bird at the stranger before kicking and punching him during an unprovoked attack. The 29-year-old’s victim suffered a broken jaw, Plymouth Crown Court […]

    4 years ago

  • Man given genetically modified pig heart in world-first operation dies

    Man given genetically modified pig heart in world-first operation dies

    David Bennett survived for two months following the surgery David Bennett, the first person in the world to get a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig, has died. The 57-year-old, who had terminal heart disease, survived for two months following the surgery in the US, but passed away on Tuesday after his condition began to […]

    4 years ago

  • Ben Nevis: Man dies and two people injured after large-scale rescue operation

    Ben Nevis: Man dies and two people injured after large-scale rescue operation

    The group got into difficulty on Tuesday and one man died at the scene A man has died and two people were injured after 17 people had to be rescued in a large-scale operation on Ben Nevis, Police Scotland have confirmed. Police said a 28-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene after authorities were […]

    4 years ago

  • Lorry crashes through gates of Russian embassy in Dublin

    Lorry crashes through gates of Russian embassy in Dublin

    Police are investigating an incident of criminal damage A man has been arrested after a lorry crashed through the gates of the Russian embassy in Dublin on Monday. Irish police said the vehicle hit the gates of the embassy on Orwell Road about 1.30pm. Video circulating on Twitter shows a lorry, branded with Desmond Wisley Ecclesiastical […]

    4 years ago

  • UFC champion charged with attempting to murder man accused of molesting relative

    UFC champion charged with attempting to murder man accused of molesting relative

    Cain Velasquez faces up to 20 years in jail if convicted Former UFC champion Cain Velasquez has been charged with attempted premeditated murder after allegedly shooting at a man accused of molesting one of his relatives. The 39-year-old, a former two-time UFC champion regarded as one of the best heavyweight fighters of all time, also […]

    4 years ago

  • Ukraine invites Russian mums to pick up their captured sons in Kyiv

    Ukraine invites Russian mums to pick up their captured sons in Kyiv

    The Ukrainian defence ministry is said to have set up a hotline Ukraine has reportedly invited mums to come and “collect” captured Russian fighters as reports continue to emerge of demoralised and disillusioned troops as the battle continues into its seventh day. In what seems like an obvious attempt to embarrass Moscow, Metro reported that […]

    4 years ago