A five-year-old wrote to the Queen asking if she could borrow a SWAN for the weekend - and was thrilled to get a response from the Palace. Lyndsay Simpson sent a note to Her Majesty - saying she could look after the bird in her BATH. She loves feeding the...
The parents of a toddler who recently lived through a life-threatening liver transplant are terrified his four-year-old brother may face the same ordeal. Laura and Liam Keenan had to watch as their 14-month-old son Harry battled through a liver transplant operation in late August. He was diagnosed with a rare...
The government yesterday (Fri) placed an export bar on an "extraordinary" sculpture of Queen Victoria to prevent it leaving the country. Arts Minister John Glen is hoping a buyer can come forward with £1.45 million to save the 1887 bust made by master sculptor Alfred Gilbert. The export ban...
Police are hunting a callous hit-and-run driver who mowed down a pregnant mum and her baby before leaving them for dead in the gutter. Detectives have released heartbreaking images showing the one-year-old tot with nasty facial injuries lying in hospital with her mother. The teenage girl, aged 17, and...
The world's smallest car dealership is set to open next week - with customers choosing their new motor from a PHONE BOX. Peugeot has converted the classic red phone box, just 0.8m square, into a fully-connected online showroom. Potential customers will be able to access the micro-dealership in London's Russell...
A "pure evil" teenager who stabbed to death a "popular, likeable and harmless" 15-year-old boy outside his school gates has been jailed for a minimum of 14 years today. The 15-year-old masked killer who moments early had been laughing and singing ambushed Quamari Serunkuma-Barnes at the end of the school...
A vile rapist has been jailed for eight years after he filmed himself abusing a woman in her sleep and used the footage to blackmail her into keeping quiet. Evil Alex Somerfield, 23, raped his victim last December but after he assaulted her in the street in February, she...
An estate agent who famously survived eight days locked in a box after being kidnapped by crazed killer Michael Sams in 1992 has died of cancer. Michael Sams Stephanie Slater, 50, was held in a cramped wooden coffin for over a week after she was taken captive by the convicted...
A devoted barber chose to give his one-legged client a fresh trim OUTSIDE - because his mobility scooter wouldn't fit inside the shop. Kieran Worthington, 28, moved his clippers and scissors outside to give Billy, whose in his 70s, a short back and sides in the reflection of the...