A never seen before double-sided sketch by a world famous artist has sold for almost double its estimated value at an international art auction. Alberto Giacometti's pencil sketches of a nude woman and various heads fetched £130,000 when they went under the hammer last week. They are titled "Têtes (recto);...
It doesn’t matter if you’re a corporate giant like Apple, or a local business that sells actual apples; hiring international staff can have a variety of benefits. From diversifying work culture and building foreign partnerships, to skilled staff at a lower cost and acquiring specialist talent, there is always a...
Shocking footage shows a raging farmer mow down a hunt saboteur with his quad bike - while screaming “get off my land”. Violence erupted when members of the West Midlands Hunt Saboteurs filmed the Atherstone Hunt on Saturday (14/10) afternoon. The farmer, dressed in green John Deere overalls, drives a...
Meet Britain's most daredevil gran - Trish Wagstaff, 85, who has spent her retirement swimming with sharks, jumping out of planes, wing walking and paragliding. After her retired Army major husband Peter died ten years ago she pledged to spend her time fundraising for local charities and pushing herself to...
Vets saved a cobra which had been stuck inside a can of beer for four days. The highly venomous reptile had been crashing around the inside of an abandoned water tank with its head stuck inside an empty can of Budweiser. The terrified snake had almost slit its own throat...
When holding a conference for your business, your key aims should be to put together an event that creates impact and puts your brand front of mind, while encouraging delegates to attend your future events and use your products or services. To achieve all this, it’s essential that attendees don’t...
Three coppers watched a man in custody suffer a head injury and a ten-minute fit but failed to alert doctors - 48 hours before he was found dead in his cell, a disciplinary heard was told. David Fournier D'albe, 40, was found unresponsive in a police cell at 03.20am on...
A hospital is beating bed-blocking by sending elderly patients to a care home - at a THIRD of the cost of keeping them on wards. An entire floor on a newly-built care home has been commissioned so patients from Yeovil District Hospital in Yeovil, Somerset, can leave hospital. Pensioners who...
Horrified drinkers have spoken of their disgust after a group of students on an annual bar crawl wrote "CONSENT IS A MYTH" on their t-shirts. According to people who attended the student event, other t-shirts had "rape is not a crime" and "she CAN be asking for it" hand-written on...