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Blue Cross ‘Tap Dogs’ will soon be spotted across the UK thanks to support from PayPal. The team of four-legged fundraisers, who wear special dog coats with contactless payment devicses fitted in a pocket, is increasing. The new team of Tap Dogs will be taking £2 donations at events from 10 March 2017 when Gracie the Italian spinone will reveal the new dog coats at Crufts 2017. Anyone wishing to donate can simply ‘pat and tap’ the dog to make...

Frail Ian Cadman, 58, met two-year-old marmoset Millie on his final day on Earth as he lost his battle with cancer. His declining ill-health meant staff at Wigan and Leigh Hospice, Grt Mancs., couldn’t carry out their surprise visit to nearby Knowsley Safari Park for him. So the kind-hearted staff decide to bring the monkey business to Ian – and sadly just a few hours after the visit he died surrounded by his family. Mr Cadman’s twin sister Karen Lund...

This is the moment a mum-of-two belted out an incredible rendition of a Beyonce track - unknowingly become a viral star watched by 900,000 fans around the world. Kerrie-Ann Lomas, 26, has always loved singing, but admits she put her dreams of stardom on the backburner to bring up her kids Kiana, three, and Kendal, 10 months. But when her mum Sandra Jones filmed her belting out Beyonce's Listen - while sat on her sofa with her daughter clambering over...

A woman who was branded a ‘dunce’ at school and hid her illiteracy all her life is finally learning to read – at the age of 87. Retired factory worker Ursula Shepherd says her teachers in the 1930s “didn’t care” if she was educated. The pensioner, who has learning difficulties, was branded a ‘dunce’ by classmates and left school at the age of 15 unable to read or write. She hid her illiteracy throughout her working life and at home...

A furious job-seeker has blasted high street chemists Boots after being turned away from an interview – for not being dressed “conservatively enough”. Not the best news to emerge on International Women's Day. Rosie Reilly, 26, was wearing a black and white high-collared blouse and a knee length black skirt when she met bosses of the Boots store in Richmond, London. She had applied for a job as a full-time sales assistant. But after the first part of the interview,...

A builder who was paralysed in a 30ft horror fall on a site can now go for a stroll around the park – thanks to his £50,000 robot legs. Gheorghe Dunca was left paralysed from the waist down, after he fell nine metres from the first floor of a building while working as a labourer in 2011. But now the 42-year-old has secured enough compensation to use £50,000 exo-skeleton legs for the next 20 years – because they need to...

A worshipper has been praised by a judge after risking his own life to disarm a knifeman threatening to BEHEAD a man at a mosque. Ebrima Touray was praying when he saw a man enter the building with shoes on – an act that is strictly prohibited. It was then he realised Haidar Hami, 22, had a Stanley knife in his hand and was threatening another man who was bleeding from cuts to his cheeks and face. A court later...

It was a shocking and brazen knife attack that was luckily caught by crystal; clear CCTV footage. Luke Monk , 28 and an unknown accomplice carried out the sickening robbery in Co-Op store in Sawley, Derbys. They ran into the grocery store armed with knives and stole cash and cigarettes, during the 2.43 minute video footage. At one point, Monk, wearing a motorcycle helmet, grabbed a terrified shop assistant while pointing a blade at another worker behind the till. The...

A boy who was the only person in the world to suffer from a super-rare cancer has made a remarkable recovering thanks to crowdfunded treatment denied by the NHS. Daryl Allinson, 13, was struck down with a rare form of leukaemia in 2015 but went into remission thanks to a bone marrow transplant from his brother Bradley, 22. Daryl was a promising young footballer before his coach noticed he was getting breathless too easily, in April 2015. When he became...