More than one million of the new plastic £10 banknotes celebrating author Jane Austen have entered circulation. The new tenner is the first Bank of England note with a tactile feature to help blind and partially-sighted users. People queue outside the Bank of England in the City of London this...
A police officer has been removed from duty after being captured on camera telling a black man: "You would be the first one I would shoot if I had a gun." Jack Chambers, 24, said he was left gobsmacked when the PC also asked him "Are you going to go...
A middle-aged couple who first met during a French exchange trip as children have got married - 41 YEARS later. Emma van Laun admits she "developed a crush" on Vincent Valbret when he travelled to her village in the summer of 1976. At the end of his trip, Vincent, who...
Can you guess who this artistic collage is meant to be? It's a tribute to a deceased celebrity in Chesterfield town centre that has been causing a right royal kerfuffle. Is that enough of a clue? It's a face that has graced the front cover of the Daily Express more...
The world's most elite nanny training school has unveiled this year's new recruits - including its largest ever intake of MEN. Graduates from Norland College go on to look after the children of some of the richest people in the world - including celebrities and royalty. Prince George has a...
The desperate parents of conjoined ten-year-old twins attached at the head are appealing for help to raise £75,000 to separate them. Joy and Joyce Magsino were born with angular frontal partial craniopagus - they are attached at the forehead. A touching video released by their father devoted Patrick Magsino, 30,...
Back in 2007, Science Daily published a report by Marko Siitonen of Jyvaskyla University covering online gaming communities. At the time, web-based multiplayer media was relatively new, and everyone involved was intrigued as to where the new interaction platform would take us in the future. Even then, the study showed...
Rolexes are expensive, luxurious and coveted… but cool? We’re not so sure about that. Rolex is a Swiss watch manufacturer that has the utmost respect from everyone in the general public and those in the watch industry. Don’t get us wrong, they are beautiful little pieces, but not the first...
A truly ‘novel’ romantic novel, Bounty of a Stolen Empire is a sharply-written, wryly humorous book that tells the real-life story of Marguerite, Countess of Blessington – one of the most remarkable women of her time but shamefully forgotten by history. Born Margaret Power in 1789, our heroine, begins her...