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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Usher bit off guest's finger during drunken rampage at best friend's wedding

Channel: UK UK December 19, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as he signs an executive order recommending loosening the federal regulations on marijuana, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 18, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Donald Trump refuses to rule out launching war against Venezuela

Channel: World World December 19, 2025
Asda in Shaw (Picture: Google)

Pensioner killed by van at Asda car park named to try find family

Channel: UK UK December 19, 2025
CANADA - 2025/11/16: In this photo illustration, the Google Pixel logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Emergency update issued affecting millions of phones

Channel: UK UK December 19, 2025
Resident doctors from the British Medical Association picket outside St Thomas' Hospital during the union's 13th strike in a pay dispute which began in March 2023, in London, Britain, November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Hiba Kola

Doctors vote for 5-day strike after rejecting Government's last-ditch offer

Channel: UK UK December 15, 2025

Tenant from hell made pristine home a rat-infested hovel and left owing £40,000

Channel: UK UK December 16, 2025

Man with same name as Bondi Beach 'gunman' fears for life after hate mail

Channel: World World December 15, 2025
Shaun Hogg appeared before Suffolk Magistrates' Court on Thursday

Man arrested for having a Samurai sword after he fell on it and called 999

Channel: UK UK December 12, 2025
Mum accidentally drives into swimming pool with daughter, 5, in the car Ville de La Ciotat/Facebook

Mum crashes through window and into swimming pool with daughter, 5, in car

Channel: World World December 12, 2025
The iconic brutalist architecture of The Barbican housing estate in the City of London, UK.

Iconic London building will close for a year because of 'significant deterioration'

Channel: UK UK December 12, 2025
EMBARGOED TO 1600 WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 10 Undated artist impression handout issued by the Trustees of the British Museum of sparks from flint and pyrite. The earliest known evidence of fire-making by humans has been discovered in the UK and dates back more than 400,000 years, research suggests. Issue date: Wednesday December 10, 2025. PA Photo. The find, at a disused clay pit near Barnham, Suffolk, between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds, indicates humans were making fire 350,000 years earlier than previously known. Previously, the oldest known evidence of fire-making was from 50,000 years ago in northern France. Photo credit should read: Craig Williams/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.

Earliest proof of humans making fire found in UK and it's 400,000 years old

Channel: UK UK December 10, 2025
BRISTOL, UK - 11th MAY 2024 - Scenic landscape of people enjoying the outdoors in Castle Park on a sunny late spring day in Bristol, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Masked thugs 'shine torch in eyes of victims' before launching homophobic attacks

Channel: UK UK December 11, 2025
CHELMSFORD, ENGLAND - MARCH 9: A general view of a Leon fast food restaurant on March 9, 2024 in Chelmsford, United Kingdom. (Photo by John Keeble/Getty Images)

UK fast food chain to close restaurants and cut jobs after £21,000,000 losses

Channel: UK UK December 11, 2025
Xmas fair Credit: Instagram / nikhiltarte

Families turned away from Christmas fair after tech giant hired it out for staff

Channel: UK UK December 10, 2025
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Bear attacks trainer in front of audience after being forced to ride hoverboard

Channel: World World December 8, 2025
Police are present at Storo Storsenter after a report of a shooting inside the center, in Oslo, Nor way December 8, 2025. NTB/Stian Lysberg Solum via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NORWAY OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN NORWAY.

Shopping centre evacuated after gunman opens fire

Channel: World World December 8, 2025