JOHNNY DEPP played an extravagant version of the controversial author Hunter S Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998).

An anthrax researcher who committed suicide earlier this week had threatened his therapist and recently outlined a plan to kill his colleagues, according to a tape of a court testimony.

A convicted paedophile was today jailed for life in the UK for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a three-year-old girl just weeks after his prison licence for an earlier sex attack on another child ran out.

Police in Cardiff investigating the alleged kidnap and rape of a three-year-old girl have said that two men were seen attempting to entice young girls into their car near where the snatch took place.

A FAMILY of six who sparked a nationwide hunt when they disappeared do not intend to return to their home, police said yesterday.