This is the moment one of Britain's leading horse trainers took her ponies to meet their relatives on the Shetland Islands - on a tiny boat. Emma Massingale, 34, accompanied Albert and Ernie back to their native roots as part of her latest equestrian challenge. During the month-long adventure the...
In a year when strikes look likely to become increasingly prominent, here's one that would near cripple the economy. If all migrant workers downed tools for a day Britain's economy would take a £328 million hit, the nation's GDP would fall four per cent and institutions such as the NHS...
A man who was left in A&E with a perforated bowel says he could have died after being forced to wait for more than 14 hours. Eddie Thomas, 50, was in desperate need of urgent surgery when he first arrived at hospital after suffering from intense pain in his stomach...
Police uncovered a massive haul of cannabis being grown in a £15 million mansion just yards from Buckingham Palace. The drugs factory growing "£500,000 of weed" was raided by police inside the mansion on one of Britain's most expensive streets in posh Belgravia, central London. Around 30 bags of suspected...
As if Britain's local shops weren't beleaguered enough already with giant corporations showing up on every corner and the majority of people preferring to use online retailers than spend their money with small businesses, the government is about to deliver what could be the sucker punch for small shops when business...
Jaffna in the North of Sri Lanka, El Nido Pangalusian Island in the Philippines and the ancient Mayan city of Yaxchilan in Mexico have been named among the 20 best-kept travel secrets in the world. From tiny towns to palm-flecked beaches, the top 20 list of the world’s best-kept hidden...
Hundreds of one-day-old chicks have been dumped in field in Cambridgeshire, according to the RSPCA. The animal welfare charity was called on Friday (17 February) by members of the public who spotted around 1,000 little chicks running around Crowland, near Peterborough. An investigation has been launched following the call-out. RSPCA...
“One of the most striking questions about flamenco performances is the apparent rigidity with which both men and women perform and recreate their own stereotypes”, Joaquina Labajo wrote in an essay exploring the construction of gender in the Spanish art form. You can certainly see how it has become a...
An ‘appalling’ rise in deadly super bugs E.coli and MRSA is linked to the Conservatives cutting and outsourcing cleaning contracts, according to GMB. Three thousand cleaners have been slashed from the NHS wage bill since 2011/12, new figures reveal - despite hospitals treating more than a million more patients every...