A 12-year-old boy who sleeps for three and a half months at a time has celebrated his first Christmas awake in four years. Connor Prince, from Toton, Nottinghamshire, has rare sleep disorder Kleine Levin Syndrome, which has caused him to sleep through the past four Christmases. His mum Dana, 44, said: ‘The last three years have put such a strain on the family, as we haven’t been able to plan any holidays.

Oh! You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout - I'm telling you why: Draconian bulk data collection is coming to Britain. They're making a list, checking it twice, gonna find out who's naughty or nice, because the government is legally mandating ISPs to log your internet activity from today. They see you when you're sleeping, they know when you're awake, they know if you've been bad or good, so surrender your civil liberties for goodness sake!

A man serving 12-months behind bars for leaving a bacon sandwich outside a mosque has been found dead in his prison cell. Kevin Crehan, 35, was jailed along with three others in July this year after the gang left rashers of bacon on door handles of the Jamia Mosque in Totterdown, Bristol. Crehan, Alison Bennett, 46, and Mark Bennett, 48, and Angelina Swales, 31, admitted hurling racial abuse at a member of the mosque and leaving a St George’s flag tied to a fence nearby.

Retailers will struggle in 2017 as rising food price inflation leaves shoppers with less to spend on discretionary items such as clothing and homeware, according to a leading industry thinktank. Prices could rise by between 2.5% and 3% next year, led by an expected 2.4% rise in the price of food and groceries, the highest level since 2013, according to the Retail Thinktank, a group backed by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and analysts at advisory firms KPMG, Verdict, Nielsen and Ipsos Retail Performance.

A close aide to Nigel Farage could be jailed for up to 20 years in America over a plot to rip off drug smugglers. Peer’s nephew George Swinfen Cottrell, 22, said to be worth £250million, admitted posing as a bogus cash ­launderer for dealers. He told prosecutors: “I intended to keep the money.” Aristocratic George Swinfen Cottrell is said to be worth £250million but that did not stop him launching an audacious bid to extort cash from dangerous drug traffickers.

Ofsted inspectors have downgraded an independent Islamic school in Tower Hamlets after finding "grimy" facilities, "inappropriate" books and a camera placed in the school toilets. Inspectors concluded that pupils were not being "prepared for life in modern Britain" after discovering "Inappropriate literature regarding women's role in society". Pupils at the Darul Hadis Latifiah had "no planned opportunities" to "socialise or work with girls" and very few pupils were able to name...

A secondhand bookshop owner who has received more than 20 complaints about his rudeness has admitted he was wrong to call a customer a “pain in the arse”. Steve Bloom, who runs Bloomindales in the Yorkshire Dales, has been criticised for asking visitors for a 50p entry fee, with the chairman of Hawes parish council branding him “the bookseller from hell”. Bloom, who described himself as “not really a people person”, said the council had given the issue more importance than it deserved.

Jeremy Corbyn is demanding Prime Minister Theresa May comes to the Commons on Monday to set out how she plans to "fix her failure on the NHS". It comes after the head of the British Red Cross claimed the National Health Service was facing a "humanitarian crisis" due to Government cuts. Mike Adamson told Sky News he was "not trying to embarrass anyone" but hospitals are "feeling the pressure" amid "increasingly chaotic situations".

A teenager whose death almost led to the permanent closure of one of London’s most popular nightclubs was poisoned by a high dose of the drug MDMA, an inquest has heard. Jack Crossley, 18, had 2.2 micrograms of the drug in every millilitre of his blood – more than enough for a fatal reaction – when he died on 6 August 2016 after visiting Fabric in Farringdon, a toxicology report found. Paramedics took him to Royal London hospital where he died after suffering a fatal cardiac arrest .

Britain's biggest landlord has banned "battered wives" from his properties claiming he does not want to risk ex-husbands or boyfriends returning to destroy his houses. Fergus Wilson, who runs a property empire in Kent, said he will no longer take victims of domestic violence as jealous or angry partners typically cause damage by kicking down front doors and punching holes in the interior.

On 3 January 2017 Sir Ivan Rogers resigned as the UK’s Permanent Representative to the EU. He wrote a widely publicised letter of resignation. Among several incendiary observations directed at the government’s perceived unpreparedness for negotiations on Brexit perhaps the most headline-grabbing was...

An Islamic school has been downgraded by Ofsted after its pupils did not know who Theresa May and Hillary Clinton were when quizzed by inspectors. The independent, all-boys Darul Hadis Latifiah school was branded inadequate across all areas, as the school watchdog concluded pupils were "not prepared for life in modern Britain" and many were unable to name the country's Prime Minister. Inspectors also found CCTV cameras in the school toilets and a book which "promoted inappropriate views" on how girls and women should behave in the Bethnall Green school.

A judge who swore at a defendant when he insulted her during sentencing has been cleared of judicial misconduct, despite a number of complaints from the public. Judge Patricia Lynch QC had a heated exchange with repeat offender John Hennigan at Chelmsford Crown Court in August, as she sentenced him for insulting a black Caribbean mother.

Jeremy Corbyn has said the Government should explore a law limiting the maximum amount anyone in the UK can earn. The Labour Leader said a "high earnings cap" would help prevent growing inequality, fund public services and prevent Britain from becoming a "bargain basement economy". He said the idea, which he has previously mooted, would bring under control the inflated pay of top executives after research showed UK 'fat cats' earned more than the average £28,000 salary after just four days of 2017.

Human rights campaign Liberty is launching a legal challenge against the UK’s recently passed surveillance legislation, and have reached an initial crowdfunding goal to pay for the fight this morning. The group raised £10,000 ($12,200) overnight, and will use it to seek a High Court judicial review of the new laws. The legislation in question, known as the Investigatory Powers Bill, became law last November.

Nigel Farage was forced to deny "duping" the British public over life outside the EU tonight after he was confronted on a radio phone-in. A caller accused the ex-Ukip leader of encouraging poorer voters to make themselves worse off during the first of his nightly LBC radio shows. 'Chris from Manchester' told the ex-Ukip leader: "You've led the working class and the least well off in this country to vote for something that's ultimately going to be very bad for them."

A human rights group is launching a crowd-funded legal challenge to the UK government's so-called "snoopers' charter". Campaign group Liberty says the powers, which are used by intelligence agencies to collect large volumes of data from electronic devices, amount to an "assault on our freedom". The Investigatory Powers Act gained royal assent in November. The government has said it will defend the act.

A Plymouth Argyle fan who was told his son had died unexpectedly during Sunday's FA Cup match with Liverpool has thanked police and staff who eased his distress. Kevin May, 53, from Plymouth, was texted by daughter Stacey during the game that his son Daniel, 25, had died. Daniel was quadriplegic, blind and had cerebral palsy since an operation aged six months. Distraught dad Mr May was taken to a quiet room away from the crowd.

Many defendants in road accident cases did not know they were legally required to stop, university researchers say. Leicester University's Criminology Department found more than 17,000 cases in 2015 involved a hit and run driver. This was 12% of all road accidents in Great Britain involving injury, and the second annual increase in a row. Safety charity Brake said there was an incentive for drivers to flee after killing under the influence of drink or drugs - and face lesser charges.

The EU’s chief negotiator in the Brexit talks has shown the first signs of backing away from his hardline, no-compromise approach after admitting he wants a deal with Britain that will guarantee the other 27 member states continued easy access to the City. Michel Barnier wants a “special” relationship with the City of London after Britain has left the bloc, according to unpublished minutes seen by the Guardian that hint at unease about the costs of Brexit on continental Europe.