A mother has urged a thief to return a lock of hair which she said was all she had left of her two-year-old daughter. Kirsty Baldwin’s daughter Ellie Louise died suddenly six years ago of bronchial pneumonia and she had kept the hair in her handbag, which was stolen at a motorway service station. The bag was taken from her …

A UFC fighter Polyana Viana waiting for her taxi in Rio de Janeiro may have appeared an easy target to a would-be thief, but he grossly miscalculated. The only problem for the unfortunate thief was his target was a strawweight UFC fighter, who turned the tables on the thief with punches, a kick and a “rear-naked choke” before forcing him …