A legendary Brough motorbike which was capable of 125mph almost 90 years ago is set to sell for a world record £585,000. The Brough Superior SS100 is regarded as the most desirable thing on two wheels and the Rolls-Royce of motorcycles. This unique 1928 SS100 model dubbed the 'Moby Dick' ...
This mesmerising image looks like toy tractors playing on a fabric field - but is actually a team of farmers hard at work. Photographer Chris Taylor, 47, spotted the workers in a field in East Winch, Norfolk, on Tuesday while taking aerial snaps from the sky with his drone. As ...
By Michael McNulty It’s Forgotten Film Friday, here’s this week’s instalment. Gus Van Sant’s 2003 film Elephant won both the Best Director and Palme d’Or awards at Cannes. It’s a piercingly quiet, stunningly effective, nightmarish film based on the Littleton, Colorado Columbine school shooting of 1999 which left 12 students ...
A chilly vineyard has become Britain's most Northerly commercial WINE producer for the first time in history. The British wine boom has rarely seen vineyards pop up as far north as Watford as the French try to snap up land for the same desire across the South of England. But ...
Britain is experiencing a beetroot boom, with supermarket sales of the root vegetable increasing by as much as a third year-on-year on the back of the ‘purple trend’ – people eating purple to consume more antioxidants and nutrients in a bid to stay healthy. Leading researchers Kantar cite the total market ...
It may be a man’s world - but modern mums are twice as likely to want daughters over sons, a new study shows. Two in five mothers said they wished for a girl while pregnant, compared to just 18 per cent who hoped for a son. But for fathers the ...
Three quarters (76%) of NHS Trusts and Health Boards say there is not enough specialist nursing care for people with incurable secondary breast cancer, reveals charity Breast Cancer Care. Worryingly, close to half (42%) of organisations surveyed do not provide specialist nursing care for people with incurable breast cancer, in ...
It was my first day on the job but that wasn't unusual as it was everybody's first day on the job at MAYOUT, an organisation so new that we hadn't even worked out just what the letters in MAYOUT stood for as an acronym. Jenkins, who had come to us ...
GMB Scotland has accused the UK Government of ‘a gross betrayal’ of drinks manufacturing workers after Diageo announced plans to cut more than 100 jobs across its Scottish operations due to Brexit concerns. Workers and trade unions were informed this afternoon that seventy redundancies will be made at Diageo’s Leven plant ...