In the 1990 movie Home Alone, eight-year-old Kevin McCallister, played by Macaulay Culkin, set a series of elaborate traps for two bungling burglars after his family accidentally leaves him by ...

They were in and out; they didn’t even seem to go downstairs,” she says. Clare’s discovery of her home burglary on her return from a family holiday has lingered in her mind many months later.

A burglar has been jailed after he was thwarted by a Home Alone-style trap, police have said. CCTV has been released which shows Paul Howell attempting to break in to a property in Blyth ...