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Millions of Brits would happily celebrate a big windfall – by ditching their other half, a study has revealed. Researchers who carried out a detailed study found more than one in four would leave their partner, with some blokes admitting as little as £100k would be enough for them to walk away. One in 50 would even be willing to cut ties with their spouse for less than £50,000. It also emerged men would be more likely to be tempted...

A piece of jewellery bought at a car boot sale for £5 is set to sell for more than £20,000 after it turned out to be a diamond, emerald and ruby brooch. The owner of the brooch gave it to her daughter to wear to church but she placed it in the bottom of her handbag and forgot about it. On a chance visit to a jeweler many months later, she pulled out the brooch and was sharing the story...

A furious mum has blasted Instagram for removing a photograph of her 12-year-old son who has a facial deformity - after another user complained about the image. Brave Harry Beswick was born with Goldenhar syndrome, which means he has no left eye, eye socket, nostril and left ear. Mum Charlie, 38, posts pictures of Harry and his twin brother Oliver to 12,000 followers on her Instagram account, called Our Altered Life. Harry has a prosthetic eye, but when Charlie, from...

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 was 15, asked the 11-year-old Emma if she would like to become penpals with his sister who was the same age as her. When Vincent returned to Paris, Emma, from...

Type 2 diabetes can be reversed by going on a low calorie diet, according to new research. A new study found that excess calories lead to a fatty liver, which causes the liver to produce too much glucose. The excess fat is then passed on to the pancreas, which causes the insulin-producing cells to fail and thus causing diabetes. The team from Newcastle University found that losing less than one gram of fat from the pancreas can re-start insulin production,...

A pair of busty best friends frustrated at being unable to find sexy lingerie that fitted their well endowed assets have set up shop to cater for women in a similar predicament. Alice Holden, 25 and 30GG, and Fleurette Mulcahy, 24 and 28FF/G, both struggled to find bras to fit since the age of 14, and became sick of unflattering and frumpy underwear. Instead, the pair, who met studying Geography at King's College London in 2011, decided to set up...

A newlywed bride is lucky to be alive after she was bitten by a venomous spider on her HONEYMOON. Victoria Ross, 32, was just two weeks into her marriage with company manager Brian, 33, when she was nipped on the right leg by a tiny 1 cm-long violin spider on July 4 during her honeymoon to Jamaica. The account executive from Bingley, West Yorks, was left with an inflamed red raw leg covered in pus-filled boils so horrifying doctors were...

By Anna Power Like a lot of women I’m not very kind to my hair. I wash it most days and blow dry it with a heated dryer and I also colour my hair and have done so for years. To top it off, I have naturally fine hair – so I’m basically a hairdresser’s nightmare. With this in mind I head to Carol Joy London for their Intensive Steam Treatment and Signature Blow Dry in the hope of rescue....

A 'human snake' teenager who sheds her skin every six weeks because of an ultra-rare condition is set to get life-improving treatment in Europe. Shalini Yadav, 16, needs to constantly smear her body with moisturiser and have a bath every hour to stop it from hardening and seizing up. But her family are so poor they couldn't afford any specialist treatment to ease her ailments, leaving her unable to walk without a stick or straighten her limbs. A 'human snake'...