Sam Courtney-Guy | Freelance News Reporter

Previously Deputy Editor of The World Weekly, Sam has also written for PoliticsHome and Public Finance. He was shortlisted for the British Journalism Awards 2022 as part of a team behind a BBC documentary about a multi-million pound scam which he exposed in Metro articles.

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Men arrested after joyriding 6mph scissor lift through city centre

Channel: World World 16 hours ago
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Priest kicked nurse in the groin when he tried to discharge her from hospital

Channel: UK UK 3 hours ago
Play Video A combination image of aerial view of where piles of human remains were found in the desert near Las Vegas.

Over 300 piles of human remains found in desert

Channel: US US 4 days ago
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Convicted murderer who killed his pregnant girlfriend after release is jailed

Channel: UK UK 4 days ago
Undated handout photo issued by West Mercia Police of hockey coach Mohamed Samak, 43, who was jailed for at least 21 years after being found guilty at Worcester Crown Court of the murder of his interior designer wife Joanne Samak, 49, at the family home in Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire, on July 1 2024. Issue date: Friday October 31, 2025. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: West Mercia Police/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

Husband who stabbed his wife to death and claimed she killed herself is jailed

Channel: UK UK 4 days ago
British Police in high visibility jackets at a protest rally.

Three people killed after crash between car and lorry on motorway

Channel: UK UK 4 days ago
Recruitment boss trapped in Moroccan 5-star resort spa fire died after explosion Anthony Barnes

Dad choked to death on smoke while trapped in spa when fire broke out

Channel: World World 4 days ago
(Left) Drawing of Julia Wandelt and (Right) Julia Wandelt in a selfie.

McCann 'stalker' who claims to be Maddie 'begged her parents for a DNA test'

Channel: UK UK October 28, 2025
Toronto, Canada - February 23, 2025: Popular email apps on a smartphone: Gmail, Microsoft Outlook, and Apple Mail.

More than 183,000,000 account details leaked in breaches which went unnoticed for months

Channel: UK UK October 28, 2025

Top jewellery brand recalls earrings over 'serious chemical risk' that can lead to cancer

Channel: UK UK October 25, 2025
Play Video Part of a Manchester city centre building appears to have collapsed this afternoon (Friday, October 24). The building, off Bridge Street, is understood to have been scheduled for demolition.

Building collapses in Manchester city centre forcing hundreds to evacuate

Channel: UK UK October 24, 2025

Thief pinches 21 manhole covers from a single street overnight

Channel: UK UK October 24, 2025

What caused Amazon’s AWS outage after 16,000,000 people affected worldwide

Channel: Tech Tech October 24, 2025

Vinted flooded with people 'selling' precious jewels stolen from the Louvre

Channel: UK UK October 24, 2025
HENGRAVE, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM - 2022/01/27: Front entrance to Five Wells Prison in Wellingborough. (Photo by Edward Crawford/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Prison officer and inmate in court over ‘sexual relationship’

Channel: UK UK October 20, 2025
Play Video John Linden allegedly throwing a disabled man's phone. A sacked senior firefighter has blamed his PTSD for allegedly throwing a disabled man's phone, a tribunal has heard. John Linden has appeared at an employment tribunal this week to argue he was unfairly dismissed by the Norfolk Fire Service. Mr Linden, from Dersingham, Norfolk, was involved in an altercation with a YouTube blogger while attending a blaze in King's Lynn. The former station manager, who served for 32 years, was caught on camera appearing to throw Jimmy Evans' phone over a hedge in June 2023. Photo released 05/09/2025

Firefighter sacked for throwing phone belonging to irritating blogger over a bush

Channel: UK UK October 21, 2025