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Inquests are currently being held into the deaths of twenty-one people who were killed in two explosions at the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town pubs in November 1974, explosions which also injured 220. An ex-IRA member gave evidence to the hearings today, in which he named four of those behind the attacks and gave the nicknames of two others. The former volunteer, named in court only as 'Witness O', said Seamus McLoughlan was commander of the Birmingham IRA at the time and selected the targets. He said Mick Murray (bottom right) and Michael Hayes (top right) were part of the bombing team and another man, James Gavin (left), was also involved.Gavin, Murray and McLoughlin have since died. Witness O's testimony today suggests Hayes, who is still alive, was promised he would not be pursued under the Good Friday Agreement.

A Glasgow homeowner has won a row with his neighbours to keep his 90ft conifers. Neil Torrance (right house) said his trees were a 'landmark' but neighbours Robert Alexander (inset) and wife Vivien disagreed. They wanted to have the pines cut down as the tall trees cast a shadow over their back garden (left house), stopping the grass growing on their lawn and blocking their views of the sunset. The dispute was taken to government level but authorities sided with Mr Torrance because the trees do not constitute a hedge.

Theresa May could finally give in to pressure and allow MPs to vote on options including a second referendum within days. A series of 'indicative votes' may finally be staged next week if Mrs May's is thrown out for a third time. Choices are likely to include a softer Brexit, a second referendum or even cancelling Brexit altogether - with the intention of finally finding a solution MPs will vote for. A battle is waging inside Government over the idea amid fears it would surrender what little authority Mrs May has left. But with the deal appearing to be doomed there is a race against time to agree something which will convince the EU to hold off No Deal on April 12. Anything that is not the current divorce deal or No Deal will requite European Parliament elections on May 23.

Theresa May has ruled out cancelling the Brexit countdown despite a public petition backed by actor Hugh Grant (right) soared towards three million signatures (bottom left). The Prime Minister said she did not believe in halting the deadline after the EU offered a delay plan, adding: 'I do not believe that we should be revoking Article 50.' The petition has also been backed by physicist Brian Cox, actress Jennifer Saunders (centre), singer Annie Lennox, actors Eddie Marsan and Andy Serkis (left) and author AC Grayling. With the highest sign-up rate on record, more than two million people had pledged their support by the time Mrs May fielded questions in Brussels last night. Support for the petition is concentrated in London and constituencies around Cambridge, Brighton, Bristol, Oxford and Edinburgh (as shown, bottom right).

The 16-year-old delivered a damning assessment of Brexit, criticising Britain's leaders for putting party 'before the country it's trying to govern'. The teenager criticised David Cameron for making the referendum a policy 'because he didn't want to risk losing 10 or 15 seats to Ukip'. She was praised on social media for her calm demeanour after proposing an extension and a return to representative democracy through a general election, 'because that's what this country was built on'. Pictured top right: Twitter user @cbicknellmusic, who said the young woman 'absolutely nails it'. Centre right: Sally Thomas, who said the teenager was 'brilliant'. Bottom right: Broadcaster Richard Bacon tweeted: 'When they ask her one day what she'd say to her 16 year old self, she'll say, "nothing really, nailed it".'

A priest has been stabbed during morning mass at a church in Montreal that was being broadcast live online and on television. At around 8.40am, Father Claude Grou was conducting the service at Saint Joseph's Oratory when the attacker, who has not been named, suddenly rushed at him from one of the pews. He ran towards the priest, stabbing him in the upper body, as members of the congregation watched on in horror. Father Grou fell to the ground but got back up immediately as worshipers stood between him and the attacker to put distance between them until police arrived. The attacker has not been named or charged. He was taken into custody and will be interviewed this afternoon. It remains unclear what his motive was.

Viewers slammed a couple last night for turning their home into 'a B&Q store' after they spent £80,000 on renovations including neon orange windows and grey walls. Amifa and Amin appeared on Channel 4's Ugly House to Lovely House as they sought to transform their 'dark and condemned' home 'on a tight budget'. The pair initially said they hoped to make small changes to their 1920s property, in a bid to not end up with something 'radically different' to other homes in the street. However the couple, from Bellingham in south east London, were transfixed after they were presented with a swatch sample for an orange window frame. But when the final transformation was revealed at the end of the show, viewers were shocked to find all the windows had been redone with the unsightly neon colour.

Olivia Archbold (left, outside Manchester Crown Court today), 23, of Manchester, who had been tipped as the 'new Charlotte Church' (right, on Britain's Got Talent in 2010), broke up and sold the drugs in batches to a network of customers. The singer's boyfriend Alex Nash, 24, used Bitcoin to order cannabis online from Holland and the US over three years and made up to £85,000 from the racket - including up to £9,000 a month. The pair would inject the cannabis consitituent Tetrahydrocannabinol or THC into chocolate bars and sweets before posting packages around the country using encrypted messaging. But police began investigating after two consignments of herbal cannabis were intercepted from the Netherlands which had been addressed to Archbold at the couple's flat in Manchester city centre. Officers later raided the flat in June 2017.

Cooking can be hard but these pictures reveal just how wrong dinner can go. The images from around the world include a pizza that has lost its toppings (top right) and a severely burnt (bottom middle) grilled cheese sandwich. Also included are seven eggs that have been boiled so much they have burnt (top right), a destroyed birthday cake (bottom right) and a plastic chopping board (bottom left) that has melted after being left on the hob. For one woman (top middle) the kitchen drama became too much and she slumped to the floor, leaving her cat to eat the spilled dinner.

The footballer's ex-girlfriend Stacey Flounders (right, today), the mother of his child, headed to the gym this morning while their four-year-old daughter, Ayla, was reunited with him at his home. Johnson's father, Dave Johnson, drove him away from HMP Moorland just after midnight (left) and his van later arrived at the footballer's home in an upmarket village in County Durham. Speaking to MailOnline this morning, his father (inset, with Johnson's daughter last week) said: 'We are glad to have him home.' The former Sunderland winger (inset after his 2015 arrest), now 31, served just half of the six-year sentence behind bars. He was jailed for grooming, kissing and touching a 15-year-old fan.

A 22-year-old woman from Warrington, Cheshire, was met with a barrage of fat-shaming abuse after she rejected someone on Tinder. Becky Kerr, a supermarket baker, was branded a 'hungry hippo' and a 'sack of potatoes' by a man named Tom on the dating app. But Miss Kerr refused to be riled by the hurtful fat-shaming messages and responded jokingly to the vengeful Tinder match. He carried on with the abuse, calling her 'Shrek' and 'fat ugly horribly dirty and obese'.

Homeless people living in RVs has become a crisis across California, from the suburban streets of Los Angeles (main) to lines near Stanford University in Palo Alto (top, bottom right). Californians such as Los Angeles man Joe (inset) are living in the vehicles for a variety of reasons; they run the gamut from families who can no longer afford their neighborhood but want to keep their children in local schools to working professionals who simply find rents too high. The scale of the situation is so vast that organizations and non-profits such as SafeParkingLA have sprung up to identify and organize safe, guarded lots where homeless people can park their RVs, camper vans and other vehicles to sleep. The number of homeless living in RVs is disputed, however, because they are often missed in counts, do not access separate homeless services or do not consider themselves homeless at all.

Jacinthe (right), from Lancashire, is reduced to floods of tears in tonight's episode of Say Yes To The Dress after revealing her own mother called her 'fat.' The slim size six bride-to-be reveals she is under pressure to find a wedding dress that not only she loves but that her strict, hard to please mum approves of as well. As she breaks down, super stylist and presenter Gok Wan (inset) reassures her 'there's more fat on a chip.'

New Zealand fell silent on Friday afternoon during a poignant memorial service exactly a week after the Christchurch terror attack. Hundreds of Muslims and non-Muslims gathered in the city's Hagley Park opposite the Al Noor mosque where worshipers were gunned down. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, wearing a black and gold headscarf in solidarity with the Islamic faith, briefly addressed the emotional gathering. 'New Zealand mourns with you. We are one,' she said. 

Chris Ruden, 28, from Coconut Creek in Florida made the video to show off his brilliant sense of humor as well as the many challenges he faces in the kitchen when it comes time to cook. Chris was left with only two fingers on his left hand due to a congenital birth defect.

Hannegret Donnelly has been jailed for life after battering her husband to death with a rolling pin at their Buckinghamshire home. The mother-of-four inflicted 78 injuries on husband Christopher who suffered from bronchial pneumonia. Police retrieved two rolling pins from their Aylesbury house which Donnelly admitted using to beat her husband (right). She even revealed in police interviews how she would chase him with the utensil around the kitchen table. A jury at Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court unanimously convicted Donnelly after a 13-day trial. The court heard how she waited 12 hours to call paramedics after Christopher had died.

A massive explosion at a chemical plant in eastern China which has a long record of safety violations has killed at least 47 people and injured hundreds of others, 90 of them seriously. Windows in buildings as far as about six kilometers (four miles) away were blown out by the force of the explosion yesterday afternoon, which caused a magnitude 2.2 seismic shock. The blast in an industrial park in the city of Yancheng, about three hours drive north of Shanghai, was one of China's worst industrial accidents in recent years. Footage shows firefighters still trying to put out the fire this morning in the seriously wrecked factory.

Jerri Cook (left) 30, from Waterlooville, Hants, claims Primark 'stole' the hand-painted designs (top right) she began selling in 2016 for its own remarkably similar 'Cactus Queen' range (bottom right).The press-on plastic nails being sold for £2.50 by Primark look almost identical to the £14.99 design Jerri has been selling from her online Etsy shop, which she runs from home.

America - it's time for your close-up. And it has to be said, you're looking particularly dramatic, charming, epic and beautiful. These images, put together by MailOnline Travel, show the jaw-dropping diversity of the country. There are hot springs, bewitching oaks, rugged islands, cobbled streets and picturesque train journeys. Pictured clockwise from top left: Hawaii, Alaska, North Carolina and Alpena, Michigan.

When Nicole Thomson felt what she thought were signs of pre-term labour at 33 weeks pregnant she was filled with excitement at the prospect of meeting her baby girl early. But just hours later the Queensland-based mother-of-three and her husband Chase were faced with their worst nightmare when they were told by doctors that their beautiful baby, Esther Mae, had died (left and right). 'My natural instinct was to check on her, to cuddle her, to feed her and each time that I laid eyes on Esther, my heart would break a little more,' she said.

Footage from police interviews with teaching student Simona Zafirovska (pictured) has been released a week after she was sentenced to life behind bars for murder. Radica Zafirovska, 56, died in her home in Brisbane's inner northwest on October 28, 2016. In the footage Zafirovska denies playing any part in her mother's death. Throughout the initial police interview, just hours after the murder, Zafirovska appeared emotionless.

A surprisingly tricky puzzle has baffled internet users with its challenge to find the hidden objects in four images in just 45 seconds,and it will test your eyesight to its limit. The first image is pictured below, but can you see the hidden Mona Lisa face among the cards?

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Forest protection officer, Kumar, had been trying to drive the bear away from Velugodu Reservoir in Andhra Pradesh, India, and take it to the forest. He and other officers had cornered the bear and were trying to tie it up with ropes when it broke free and began its attack. It chases Kumar into the water and mauls him until other workers manage to distract it by throwing stones. Kumar was rushed to Kurnool General hospital where he is still recovering.

Hail, heavy rain and strong gusts as high as 134mph battered a city in south China last night. Meteorological authorities in Guilin, Guangxi Autonomous Region issued severe thunderstorm and hailstorm warnings at about 9pm local time, advising residents to take precautionary measures and stay indoors. Shocking footage filmed by local residents show strong gales uprooting trees, blowing away buses and shattering windows. No injuries have been reported.

Rachelle Lynn McGinnis, 33, from Missouri, spends hours transforming her dog Bijou, 12, to look like other animals. Using creative grooming - including trimming, hairspray and even dye - she's made Bijou look like a polar bear, a horse and a dragon. Rachelle uses controversial methods such as fur carving in order to achieve the impressive transformation and maintains her pet loves the sessions. (Pictured clockwise from top left: Bijou as a polar bear, peacock, pony and green dragon. Inset: as the dog looks normally)

Matt Cortigiani and Alex Wheels caught the attention of an entire St Louis neighborhood as they wheeled the bulky item between their houses on rented Lime scooters, after failing to find a truck to move it for them. Ivana Bosnjak, who posted the original video Facebook can be heard saying 'The stuff you see in South City'.

It's not Bondi Beach or Maui. Instead surfers from around the world braved chilly conditions of Newnham-on-Severn, in Gloucestershire to ride the river's Bore, on Friday. The Bore, which is a tidal phenomena that occurs in the lower reaches of the river, can been surging up the estuary carrying a slew of surfers. Hundreds of spectators are also seen lined along the riverbank to catch a glimpse of the first and only daytime five-star bore.

Tottenham have released a time-lapse video of their £1billion stadium being built from it's foundations in 2016 to present day as the club finally get ready to make their move back to the White Hart Lane site. After years of work, the state-of-the-art stadium will be unveiled on Sunday when the club hold their first major test event. It hasn't all been plain sailing for the club after they suffered a series of set-backs during the stadium's three-year construction.