Peckham commuters were treated to a celebrity train conductor when Star Wars actor John Boyega took over the train tannoy. The 24-year-old actor told stories and attempted to make the train “go at lightspeed” when joined his sister Blessing from the control room of the Southeastern service to Orpington on Friday....
Pilot Rich Goodwin has performed the first knife-edge aerobatics between two hot air balloons at Gloucestershire airport. The pilot flew between the two balloons, which were tethered at about 100ft above the air. In a world-first, a specially modified Pitts Special S2S stunt plane will attempt to fly at 90 degrees to...
A rap video that calls for the beheading of the Queen is under investigation by the police. Robert Boaler, who calls himself Prophet Zebadiah Abu-Obadiah (quad corr) uploaded his latest single “Off With Their Heads” last month prompting a backlash from the public. In the song he references the 2013...
After another Indian summer, autumn has finally arrived in Britain with commuters feeling a chill in the air on their way to work this morning. Temperatures dropped to near freezing overnight in most areas, with top temperatures now at 15 degrees and certain parts of the country registering slightly above...
Warmer cities could be fuelling climate change by stunting the growth of trees and increasing pests. Replanting tress are often cited as one answer in trying to capture carbon, but new research has found that cities are are reducing the tree's carbon capture capacity by an eighth, because the hotter the urban environment...
Brexit offers the best opportunity to radically rethink the NHS since it was set up 68 years ago, according to a think-tank. A new contract between the NHS and society was needed to help it cope with a growing and ageing population, a rise in obesity and environmental and economic changes. To...
This is the cute moment a huge bull elephant tried and failed to play hide and seek with a photographer. Ramona Reichert snapped the playful giant trying to conceal his vast five-tonne frame behind a tree in Tarangire National Park in Tanzania last month. The 36-year-old saw the spectacle while...
New pictures of a motorhome which costs almost twice as much as the average English house have been revealed. The Morelo Empire Liner has underfloor heating, a rain shower, double bedroom and even a garage. It is powered by a 7.7-litre engine which develops 300bhp a twice as much torque as a...
A new scientific study has revealed that beer really does give you goggles. Researchers at University Hospital in Basel, Switzerland, found drinking beer affects the way we see specific emotions and allows us to see smiling faces quicker. And - confirming Shakespeare who wrote of beer "It provokes the desire, but it...