A Scottish council has once again become one of the areas with the most twins starting primary school after 13 sets enrolled this year. The children will join a remarkable 151 sets of twins who attend primary schools across Inverclyde. It is thought to be the council area with the highest number of twins in the classroom. For the past 10 years there have been - on average - 775 registered births a year in Inverclyde. Over the same period...
A British businessman boarded the wrong flight home and landed in Las Vegas - even though he claims airline staff checked his boarding pass THREE times. Finance broker Samuel Jankowsky, 29, a finance broker was supposed to be flying home to Stansted after meetings in Cologne, Germany. It was only after an hour-long nap he woke up and spotted the Eurowings aircraft had flown past the UK on the journey-tracker on the entertainment system. He frantically Whatsapped his pregnant wife...
A stunning "fluke" picture of seven dogs standing in a straight line each with the same foot forward looks like the animals are about to dance the can-can. Kaylee Robertson, 27, was out for a walk with her dogs when she decided she would try to get some pictures of them. Her well-trained six Shetland sheep-dogs, and one Alaskan Klee Kai, have been taught to stand together in line while Kaylee takes pictures. But when she got home from a...
A couple on a bizarre mission to visit every train station in the UK have arrived in Scotland for the final leg of their trip. Vicki Pipe and Geoff Marshall are making an online documentary about their journey and have won fans across the country with their regular social media updates. Vicki, who works for the London Transport Museum, and video editor and transport blogger Geoff - who has held the record for visiting all London Underground stations in the...
A Navy chef has launched legal action after he was seriously injured during a game - of BUBBLE FOOTBALL. Matthew Palmer, 27, now has a metal plate in his skull and is scarred for life after the accident playing a game of British Bulldog while still in their bubbles. The craze - which is also known as Zorb Football - has become a popular choice for stag and hen parties and team building events. During matches players wear a large...
These shocking photographs show the moment a man was dramatically rescued after being spotted "dangling" 60 feet from the ground on an ELECTRICITY PYLON. Fire service, police and air ambulance crews rushed to the aid of the mystery dangler, yesterday (August 7) and he was taken to the Royal Preston Hospital as a precaution, police said. Pictures show the man, believed to be in his 30s, hanging precariously from an electricity wire before a major emergency services operation can be...
A driver had a miraculous survival after he dozed off at the wheel and was impaled with a 2.5 foot rod which went straight through his chest. Night shift worker Piyush Sundarva, 26, was driving home at 7.30am on the SG Highway in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, when he swerved into a metal road divider. The bars smashed through the car window and pierced Mr Sundarva's chest, coming out the other side beneath his armpit. Despite his horror injuries, Mr Sundarva...
A mum is lucky to be alive after she was attacked by a stingray - and stabbed in the FOOT. Dawn North, 44, accidentally stepped on the animal while on a dream holiday in Khao Lak, Thailand, and was jabbed through her foot with the painful and poisonous barb. Dawn, from Blythe Bridge, Staffordshire, says she is lucky to be alive after the attack by the same type fish which killed legendary crocodile hunter Steve Irwin. The mum-of-three was enjoying...
Pranksters turned a 17th-century fountain into a giant bubble bath -- after squirting FAIRY LIQUID into it. Reams of fluffy bubbles could be seen seeping out onto the high street in video footage posted on social media following the random attack on Wednesday. The stunt was orchestrated by mischievous youths who reportedly threw unknown quantities of the washing up liquid into the sandstone fountain. Within minutes, the fountain in Barnstaple Square, north Devon., was a sea of soapy bubbles and...
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