Shotgun killer Raoul Moat had a secret gay lover, The Sun reported today.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has launched an investigation into hotels which only permit gay guests, to see if they break the law in the same way which hotels who only permit straight guests do.

London’s East End has recently been the subject of a homophobic attack, as stickers reading ‘gay free zone’ have been found plastered across various parts of the district. A group of residents have taken a stand however, by retaliating with their own stickers of love.

MP for Gainsborough Edward Leigh has come under fire for suggesting on his website that only a ‘tiny number’ of gay people want marriage instead of civil partnerships… and that giving gays marriage rights is to ‘mangle’ the language of marriage.