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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  • Sajid Javid forced to admit Daily Mail does not run the NHS

    Sajid Javid forced to admit Daily Mail does not run the NHS

    An interview on Sky News took an interesting turn Thursday, when the health secretary was asked if the Daily Mail runs the NHS. Burley: Who runs the NHS, you or the daily mail? Javid: Well, the NHS is run, everyone knows how the NHS is run#Skynews It wasn't meant to be a trick question pic.twitter.com/kz9o3VBmbK — […]

    5 years ago

  • Deontay Wilder handed six-month suspension after Tyson Fury defeat

    Deontay Wilder handed six-month suspension after Tyson Fury defeat

    Wilder has been suspended until April 8 Deontay Wilder has been handed a six-month suspension after his knockout defeat to Tyson Fury on Saturday. Wilder was taken to hospital to be checked over after the fight and it has been reported that he is set to undergo surgery on a broken hand. According to reports, […]

    5 years ago

  • Police offer £20k reward for info on homophobic murder in Tower Hamlets graveyard

    Police offer £20k reward for info on homophobic murder in Tower Hamlets graveyard

    Ranjith Kankanamalage was killed in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park A £20,000 reward has been offered for information on a suspected homophobic murder at an east London cemetery, as national hate crime figures on Tuesday painted a disturbing picture of violence across the UK. Ranjith Kankanamalage, known as ‘Roy’, was killed in the Tower Hamlets Cemetery […]

    5 years ago

  • Stepson admits killing one of UK’s richest men

    Stepson admits killing one of UK’s richest men

    Sir Richard Sutton died of stab wounds at his home in Dorset in April The stepson of one of the UK’s richest men has admitted killing him. Thomas Schreiber denied murdering Sir Richard Sutton who was stabbed to death at his home near Gillingham, Dorset, in April, but admitted his manslaughter on Monday, the BBC […]

    5 years ago

  • British Airways pilots told not to address passengers as ‘ladies and gentlemen’

    British Airways pilots told not to address passengers as ‘ladies and gentlemen’

    Pilots are being used to use neutral, more inclusive terms British Airways passengers will no longer be addressed as “ladies and gentlemen”, according to reports, with language used in onboard announcements set to be changed to “reflect the diversity” of those travelling. Instead, The Telegraph reports, pilots are being urged to use neutral, more inclusive […]

    5 years ago

  • Met Police to examine sex offence and domestic abuse allegations against serving officers

    Met Police to examine sex offence and domestic abuse allegations against serving officers

    The Met confirmed that some accused officers have been permitted to remain in service The Met police are investigating allegations of sex offences and domestic abuse against serving officers and staff in the wake of Sarah Everard’s murder. An urgent review of current cases is underway, looking at past conduct, supporting victims, and ensuring investigations are […]

    5 years ago

  • Pro cyclist Alex Richardson attacked by machete-wielding robbers in Richmond Park

    Pro cyclist Alex Richardson attacked by machete-wielding robbers in Richmond Park

    Alexandar Richardson said one of the men rode into him at 60kph A professional cyclist was forced to try and outrun a group of machete-wielding masked robbers after they tried to steal his £10,000 bike while he was training in London’s Richmond Park. Alexandar Richardson was training in the park on Thursday afternoon when he […]

    5 years ago

  • Pornhub traffic surged by more than 10 per cent during Facebook outage

    Pornhub traffic surged by more than 10 per cent during Facebook outage

    Guess everyone didn’t just on Twitter after all! Facebook’s global outage on Monday, it seems, was a reminder to many overusers of social media to get a grip. Reports suggest that when the platform went down for around five hours, taking Instagram, Whatsapp and Messenger with it, use of PornHub spiked by up to 10.5 […]

    5 years ago

  • Man falls nine storeys onto car then walks away

    Man falls nine storeys onto car then walks away

    The man’s Covid mask will still dangling from his ear as he emerged from the wreckage A man miraculously stood up and asked onlookers, “What happened?”  after plummeting nine storeys onto the roof of a parked BMW. The 31-year-old man, whose identity is not yet known, crash-landed on the vehicle at Journal Square, New Jersey, […]

    5 years ago

  • Dancing pickpocket jailed for ‘grinding’ on woman to steal watches

    Dancing pickpocket jailed for ‘grinding’ on woman to steal watches

    Time’s up on a dancing watch thief A pickpocket who used dance moves to distract women as he slipped their watches off their wrists has been jailed, with police on Thursday joking that he had “enjoyed his last tango in Birmingham”. Abdelhadi Bahou Jabour, who has been described as “part Bruce Forsyth, part Artful Dodger” […]

    5 years ago

  • Desperate mum pulls out 11 of her own teeth because she couldn’t find a dentist

    Desperate mum pulls out 11 of her own teeth because she couldn’t find a dentist

    Danielle Watts hasn’t seen a dentist for six years after her NHS practice shut down, leaving her unable to afford private appointments A desperate mum was forced to pull out 11 of her own teeth because she couldn’t find a dentist and was left in excruciating pain. Danielle Watts, 42, now fears that she’ll lose […]

    5 years ago

  • Fury on the forecourts – the worst things we saw this week

    Fury on the forecourts – the worst things we saw this week

    Fuel-ish behaviour. This week forecourts across Britain turned into boxing rings, as angry motorists put all commonsense aside to participate in our new national sport – panic buying – a pursuit perfected during the lockdown. Remember the panic for bog roll and pasta as Covid hit? If not, read this refresher. Motorists were told last […]

    5 years ago

  • Your smartphone can actually tell if you’re stoned. No, you’re not being paranoid

    Your smartphone can actually tell if you’re stoned. No, you’re not being paranoid

    Your smartphone can predict if you’re high with alarmingly high accuracy No, you’re not being paranoid – your smartphone can actually tell if you’re stoned. That’s the findings of a new study with researchers discovering that the sensors in a smartphone combined with its time and travel features, can identify when a user is intoxicated by […]

    5 years ago

  • Unbelievable moment drugged up driver flips car and smashes into payment booth on M6

    Unbelievable moment drugged up driver flips car and smashes into payment booth on M6

    The driver has several drugs in his system at 10am Heart-stopping footage has been released showing a drugged-up driver flipping his car and smashing into a payment booth on the M6 before landing on top of a waiting vehicle. Staffordshire Police released the video after a 28-year-old man, who can not be identified for legal […]

    5 years ago

  • Katie Price pleads guilty to drink driving, driving while disqualified and without insurance

    Katie Price pleads guilty to drink driving, driving while disqualified and without insurance

    Price rolled her car at 6.20am on Tuesday Katie Price on Wednesday admitted to drink driving, driving while disqualified, and without insurance, after crashing her car on  Tuesday. The 43-year-old reality star pleaded guilty to the charges at Crawley Magistrates’ Court after after crashing her car near West Grinstead around 6.20am. The #B2135 east of […]

    5 years ago

  • Wayne Couzens ‘used police ID to kidnap Sarah Everard’

    Wayne Couzens ‘used police ID to kidnap Sarah Everard’

    The former Met Police officer is being sentenced for kidnapping, raping, and murdering Everard Wayne Couzens handcuffed and arrested Sarah Everard on a fake Covid patrol before he raped and murdered her, a court heard on Wednesday. Couzens, an armed protection officer, snatched Everard off the street as she walked home in Clapham, south London, […]

    5 years ago

  • Katie Price charged by police after car crash

    Katie Price charged by police after car crash

    The reality star is due to appear in court this morning Katie Price has been charged with driving while disqualified and without insurance after crashing her car on Tuesday. The 43-year-old was remanded in custody and will appear at Crawley Remand Court on Wednesday morning following her arrest. Price, who is banned from driving, is […]

    5 years ago

  • Katie Price rushed to hospital after ‘drink-drive crash’

    Katie Price rushed to hospital after ‘drink-drive crash’

    Price is currently in hospital after the crash on Tuesday Katie Price has been rushed to hospital after an alleged ‘drug and drink-drive’ crash. The reality star, who is understood to already be banned from driving, is currently in hospital, The Sun reported. Police arrested the 43-year-old for alleged drink-driving at the scene of the […]

    5 years ago

  • Police mock motorists who spent three hours queuing for petrol station that was closed

    Police mock motorists who spent three hours queuing for petrol station that was closed

    Very fuel-ish behaviour in Burnaston! Panic-buying motorists queued for three hours on Monday to get into a petrol station – that was closed. South Derbyshire police were confronted by 100 drivers trying to get into an unmanned Gulf petrol station – closed due to vandals attacking the pumps – after being called to the remote […]

    5 years ago

  • The petrol station saving its remaining fuel for emergency services and keyworkers

    The petrol station saving its remaining fuel for emergency services and keyworkers

    The offer comes after fights have broken out on forecourts A petrol station in Worcester has saved its remaining fuel for emergency services and keyworkers as chaotic scenes continue to break out across Britain as motorists come to blows at pumps. Drivers were seen fighting on a forecourt in Camden, London, over the weekend as […]

    5 years ago

  • Man accused of having sex with horse escapes from jail

    Man accused of having sex with horse escapes from jail

    Jonah Barrett-Lesko was spotted just a mile from the prison in just his boxer shorts A man who was accused of having sex with a horse escaped jail this week – but made it less than a mile before he was captured in just his boxer shorts and hauled back behind bars. Jonah Barrett-Lesko was […]

    5 years ago

  • ‘Loch Ness Monster’ caught on drone footage by wild camper

    ‘Loch Ness Monster’ caught on drone footage by wild camper

    Nessie, is that really you? A wild camper got a monster of a surprise when he looked back on his 4k drone footage. The video appeared to show the ‘Loch Ness Monster’. Richard Mavor, from Embsay, was taking part in the great glen canoe challenge in Scotland when he supposedly captured the mythical beast. At […]

    5 years ago

  • Billie Eilish says she lost 100,000 followers ‘because of the boobs’

    Billie Eilish says she lost 100,000 followers ‘because of the boobs’

    The Bad Guy singer has fallen out with fans over her move from fashion goofball to glam Billie Eilish has said she lost thousands of social media followers “just because of the boobs”, after displaying a more sophisticated look recently. Earlier this month the 19-year-old, famed for being more of a fashion goofball than glam, […]

    5 years ago

  • Gabby Petito case compared to Netflix series while hundreds of missing persons cases ignored

    Gabby Petito case compared to Netflix series while hundreds of missing persons cases ignored

    700 Indigenous people were reported missing between 2011 to 2020 in Wyoming alone A Fox News contributor found himself making an unlikely cameo appearance in the story unfolding around the disappearance – now homicide – of Gabby Pepito this week after he likened it to an “on-going mini-series for America”, and a “distraction” from more […]

    5 years ago

  • Insulate Britain protestor storms off GMB after clash with Richard Madeley

    Insulate Britain protestor storms off GMB after clash with Richard Madeley

    The insulation question that got Insulate Britain’s Liam Norton hot under the collar The ringleader of a group behind a series of disruptive M25 protests stormed off national television on Wednesday after being challenged about insulating his own home. Insulate Britain’s Liam Norton walked off Good Morning Britain’s set after being quizzed by Susanna Reid […]

    5 years ago

  • Ruling limiting under-16s puberty blockers overturned

    Ruling limiting under-16s puberty blockers overturned

    The appeals court found that it was for ‘clinicians to exercise their judgment knowing how important it was for the patient’s consent to be properly obtained’ The court of appeal on Friday overturned an earlier ruling that children under the age of 16 considering gender reassignment are not mature enough to give informed consent to […]

    5 years ago

  • Make violence against women same priority as tackling terrorism, police watchdog says

    Make violence against women same priority as tackling terrorism, police watchdog says

    Three-quarters of domestic abuse cases are closed early without the suspect being charged, a report has found Combating violence against women and girls should be given the same priority as fighting terrorism, a police watchdog has said after identifying major inconsistencies between police forces in how they tackle the crime. Three-quarters of domestic abuse cases […]

    5 years ago

  • Police won’t rule out link between unsolved double murder and missing Gabby Petito

    Police won’t rule out link between unsolved double murder and missing Gabby Petito

    Kylen Schulte and Crystal Turner were last seen at a bar a day after Petito was spoken to by police. The couple’s bodies were found five days later The proximity and timing surrounding the unsolved murders of a newlywed couple and the disappearance of YouTuber Gabby Petito have led to speculation that the two cases […]

    5 years ago

  • Man has hand ‘chopped off at the wrist in London after vigilantes corner him’

    Man has hand ‘chopped off at the wrist in London after vigilantes corner him’

    The teenager suffered ‘life-changing injuries’ amid reports of ‘escalating tensions’ around the area where the violence unfolded A man reportedly had his hand cut off after being attacked with his own machete in east London. A 19-year-old man was found with a “significant knife wound” to his arm on Golding St, Tower Hamlets Police said […]

    5 years ago

  • Priti Patel stays on as Home Secretary as Boris Johnson launches major reshuffle

    Priti Patel stays on as Home Secretary as Boris Johnson launches major reshuffle

    Dominic Raab was earlier demoted and Gavin Williamson, Robert Jenrick and Robert Buckland lost their jobs Priti Patel has kept her job as Home Secretary amid a major Cabinet reshuffle by Boris Johnson. It was thought Patel might be pushed out or demoted, but it has since been confirmed that she will remain in the […]

    5 years ago

  • Doctor who Boris compared to Nicki Minaj has been trying to dodge the spotlight

    Doctor who Boris compared to Nicki Minaj has been trying to dodge the spotlight

    The doctor who Boris Johnson unexpectedly compared to Nicki Minaj during a Covid press conference has been trying to retreat from the spotlight this month. The PM mentioned Dr Nikki Kanani, the medical director of primary care for NHS England, after England’s chief medical officer, Professor Chris Whitty, was asked on Tuesday about comments Minaj […]

    5 years ago

  • Dominic Raab ousted as Foreign Secretary but confirmed as Deputy Prime Minister

    Dominic Raab ousted as Foreign Secretary but confirmed as Deputy Prime Minister

    Gavin Williamson was earlier let go as Education Secretary along with Robert Jenrick and Robert Buckland Dominic Raab has been ousted as Foreign Secretary by Boris Johnson but has been confirmed as the Justice Secretary, Lord Chancellor, and Deputy Prime Minister. The secretary of state, who has been under fire since August over his handling […]

    5 years ago

  • Once-in-a-century solar storm could plunge world into ‘internet apocalypse’

    Once-in-a-century solar storm could plunge world into ‘internet apocalypse’

    Beware the Black swan! The world could be plunged into an “internet apocalypse” because of a once in an approximately 100-year solar storm, a new study suggests. Normally, the Earth’s magnetic field shields us from solar wind – charged particles streaming from the sun – by deflecting the electric winds towards the planet’s poles and […]

    5 years ago

  • Masks might be legally mandated again, Sajid Javid announces

    Masks might be legally mandated again, Sajid Javid announces

    Boris Johnson is set to hold a press conference at 4pm Tuesday Sajid Javid has announced that face mask rules may return this winter as he outlined the pillars of the government’s plan to tackle Covid in the months ahead. The health secretary said people should be “wearing a face mask in crowded and enclosed […]

    5 years ago

  • Landlord, 22, says young have ‘no excuse’ for not owning a home

    Landlord, 22, says young have ‘no excuse’ for not owning a home

    Josh Parrott already is already looking for his third property A 22-year-old landlord and student plans to semi-retire with a property portfolio by the time he’s 30 and sees no reason why other young people can’t buy houses. Josh Parrott, who is already on the lookout for his third house, was inspired to get into […]

    5 years ago