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Prince George's day, Royal family at St James' Palace for christening of Kate and William's baby

Only five senior royals, the Queen, The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Charles, the Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Harry saw the future king baptised.read


Royal christening: Female guests all go for cream and blue

The Royal Family and the Middletons put up a united fashion front at the christening of Prince George at St James' chapel in London today.read


Prince George christening: Zara Phillips channels Victoria Beckham

Whilst most of the group chose pale colours for the christening, pregnant Zara draped her growing bump in chic navy.read


BEL MOONEY: Why in this sceptical age we still all love a christening

The minister reaches out to hold the baby, who sometimes peers up at this too-friendly stranger in weird clothes - and wails, writes BEL MOONEY.read


Maria 'was groomed to be a child bride' by Roma Gypsy couple

Police now believe that Maria, who is thought to be four or five, was being prepared for marriage at the age of 12.read


Irish girl, seven, returned to Roma family after DNA tests prove she IS their daughter

The seven-year-old was back with her family two days after ten officers stormed into her home in Dublin and removed her.read


3 Roma Gypsies arrested after ANOTHER child found 'kidnapped' in Greece

The Roma were arrested today on the Aegean island of Lesvos. It comes days after a couple of the mainland were charged with abducting a girl known as 'Maria' (pictured).read


Girl drugged with heroin substitute by Boots pharmacist confused drugs

The child was given six doses of methadone after a pharmacists at a London branch of Boots gave her mother the wrong prescription.read


4 charged with murder of Italian student Joele Leotta

Joele Leotta, 20, who came to the UK to improve his English, was sharing a flat with a friend and had already found a job in an Italian restaurant in Kent. But on Sunday night a group of men launched a savage attack on Joele and his friend.read


Call drugs 'exploratory behaviours' not 'risky', says Britain's top doctor

Smoking and drinking should no longer be termed ‘risky behaviours’ because it is too judgmental, says the chief medical officer for England.read


Britain's killer highways revealed in chilling new accident road map

The map, compiled by the Road Safety Foundation, highlights how risky it is to drive on a road with a colour system - with the deadliest roads marked black.read


Ruby Tandoh drowns her sorrows on pub crawl after tweeting through final

The disappointed Bake Off contestant headed straight to her local pub to get ‘absolutely trolleyed’ – and kept her Twitter followers updated every step of the way.read


Babies and young children 'should be given free vitamins' to ward off rickets

Renewed fears about rickets caused by lack of vitamin D have prompted Professor Dame Sally Davies to call for a review of current policy, which distributes free vitamins only to low-income families.read


Pensioner forced to pay £3,500 in compensation to carer for constructive dismissal

George Lomas, 77, from Cheshire, was told he breached Jayne Wakefield’s contract by not giving notice that her hours would decrease after his wife Rose’s death.read


The average Briton spends almost a YEAR of their working life off sick

Research from LV= revealed that workers take an average of 360 days sick leave during a standard 45 year career.read


Nine Heathrow Airport staff arrested for 'stealing lost property items'

Bosses at the airport called in officers from the Metropolitan Police after they suspected thefts from lost property.read


Romanian police helping Scotland Yard tackle Eastern European crime wave in UK

Scotland Yard has recruited the officers, who have flown to the capital for a two-year ‘tour of duty’ to help identify and deport overseas offenders.read


Andrew Mitchell deserves an apology, says chief inspector

Inpsector Ken MacKaill, Detective Sergeant Stuart Hinton and Sergeant Chris Jones told MPs they had 'done nothing wrong' in any angry exchange today.read


Missing Lisa Irwin's parents

Parents Jeremy and Deborah (pictured) have spent two years longing for the return of their daughter, known as Baby Lisa, who was abducted from their Kansas, Missouri home in 2011.read


Primark fall: Woman, 57, fell three floors to her death in Primark store

Susan Wood, from Kirkby, Merseyside, was found at the bottom of escalators on the ground floor of the clothes shop in Church Street, Liverpool, yesterday evening.read


Pictured for the first time: Bride-to-be whose future husband made a hoax bomb threat on their wedding day because he got cold feet... and she's standing by her man

Amy Williams (pictured) arrived at St George's Hall, in Liverpool, wearing her white dress to find bomb disposal units and police officers searching the venue.read


Teaching assistant Elaine McKay, 57, 'had sex with pupil'

Grandmother Elaine McKay, 57, of Clacton, Essex, is accused of starting a sexual relationship with the 15-year-old boy who she was helping to teach at school.read


Man dropped car off at airport before he went on holiday... but tracker revealed it spent a week in a MUDDY FIELD with no proper fencing, CCTV or security

The cars - which were meant to be in a 'secure parking area' - were actually parked on land about four miles from Manchester airport in Styal, near Wilmslow.read


Young, single and priced out of buying a home in almost all of the country: Getting on the property ladder now a 'distant dream'

In 80 per cent of England fewer than one in 10 homes is within reach of people in their twenties trying to buy alone.read


Wellbeing: Eilean Siar is the place to be

Experts analysing the wellbeing of the nation reveal the overall happiness of the nation may have been boosted by falling unemployment and the London Olympics.read


Is humming that's keeping Southampton residents awake fish having sex?

Residents in the Hythe area of Southampton, Hamsphire, have been struggling to get to sleep because of the puzzling noise.read


Scientists finally unravel mystery of why kettles whistle

Two Cambridge University researchers made their discovery by fitting microphones to a series of simplified kettle whistles.read


Mother-of-9 claiming £38k benefits books 2 week holiday for family

Cheryl Prudham (pictured with her husband and nine children), from Sittingbourne, Kent, was seen complaining about applying for passports for a family trip to Menorca this week.read


Stuart Hall taken from jail, charged with 15 rapes against 2 girls

Hall, 83, is serving a 30-month jail term for sexually abusing 13 victims, one as young as nine, over a period of nearly 20 years.read


'Beautiful bright' James Greenop, 10, killed in Liverpool after being hit by bus

Family and friends paid tribute to James Greenop on his mother Helen's Facebook page. The 10-year-old died at Liverpool's Alder Hey Children's Hospital after being hit by a bus.read


Invasion of the tiny plastic people! Lego figures set to outnumber HUMANS by 2019

In 2006, Lego said there were four billion figures in existence, but a physics graduate in Virginia predicts the number will rise to almost eight billion in 2019.read


Facebook must prove it is protecting children, says David Cameron

The Prime Minister led criticism against the social networking site after it lifted a ban on users posting graphic videos of violent killings.read


The terrible truth about Gaddafi's harem

The man was Muammar Gaddafi, the dictator of Libya who had seized power 35 years before. His people were forced to call him the Guide, but the rest of the world knew him simply as Colonel Gaddafi.read


Hidden health risk in reading glasses: Cheap spectacles can strain the eyes and make you feel dizzy

A survey by consumer group Which? asked an optometrist to assess 18 pairs of ready-made glasses from high street chains.read


Hair transplants for women: 82% rise in surgery to restore thinning hair

According to surgeon Dr Raghu Reddy, it's down in part to better awareness of the problem of female hair loss and the possible remedies.read


White Widow¿s manifesto of death: Diary of British Muslim convert reveals terrifying code of conduct for her ¿holy warriors¿

A copy of Samantha Lewthwaite's manifesto transcribed into English by one her recruits reveals her plans to wage war on westerners.read


School teacher banned from class after being caught teaching drama club drunk

Sarah O'Hanlon, 34, had been teaching at Sandymoor School in Runcorn, Cheshire, for three weeks when she came onto the school premises intoxicated.read


Ryanair hostesses strip off for charity calendar in PR stunt from Michael O'Leary

A line of half-dressed air hostesses gave commuters a glimpse of what the airline's 2014 charity calendar has in store at the launch at London's Victoria Station.read


'Ferguson doesn't know the meaning of loyalty': Roy Keane blasts former manager's slur in his new autobiography on live TV

The former Manchester United captain responded to claims he had 'overstepped the mark' in his time at the club during ITV's coverage of Champion's League Football.read


Sir Alex Ferguson hot under the collar after questions from Jon Snow

Not many interviewers leave Sir Alex Ferguson rattled but Channel 4 presenter Jon Snow gave the former Manchester United manager a going over.read


1 in 10 foreign criminals back on UK streets after officials fail to deport them

One in every ten foreign prisoners held at HMP Canterbury was freed back on to Britain’s streets because officials failed to deport them, a damning report reveals.read


Grangemouth closure by Ineos could increase petrol price by 10p

Production at the refinery in Grangemouth in central Scotland has been suspended for over a week because of a strike threat by militant trade union Unite.read


American student scarred for life after brutal mob attack that was caught on CCTV three days after he arrived in the UK

Francesco Hounye, 22, had been in the UK for just three days when he was set upon by a gang in east London, who smashed a bottle in his face.read


'Get out of my body': Cries of car welder, 30, after taking 'Dr Death' drug that killed him and a friend, 21, within 30 minutes of each other

Super-strength ecstasy drug PMA was blamed for the deaths of Chris Goodwin, 30, and Emma Johnson, 21, after a night out in Bolton, Greater Manchesterread


Pensioner Ilyas Ashar jailed for raping deaf and mute girl he kept in cellar

Ilyas Ashar (pictured) beat the victim, used her to satisfy his sexual desires and forced her to sleep and work in the cellar of his home in Eccles, Salford.read


Russell Gill who shot man on his doorstep with a crossbow jailed for life

Russell Gill (pictured) shot a metal crossbow into Darrell Farnham's heart on the doorstep of his Aylesbury home, in what jurors were told was a 'Medieval-style execution'.read


Stray cat 'attacked man in his sleep'

Paul Goodrum, from Humberstone, Leicester, had his face clawed, narrowly missing his eye, and nose bitten by the stray feline and says he is thankful he was attacked and not a baby.read


Annie Woodland, severely brain damaged during school swimming lesson, can sue

Annie Woodland told she can seek compensation from Essex County Council after a landmark Supreme Court ruling deemed local authority owed her duty of care.read


Strokes in under 64s soar by 25% in 20 years as doctors issue warning over toll taken by unhealthy lifestyle

Rocketing global rates of stroke among the young and middle-aged are a ‘wake-up call’, say British experts.read


Afghan woman¿s family ¿behead her and her lover and dump their bodies in graveyard in horrific honour killing¿

Police said they believed the family of the woman, aged around 20, was responsible for the murders because she had recently run away with her lover and was living with him and his family near Laskar Gah, southern Afghanistan.read


Number of children with special needs falls after government crackdown

The number of children diagnosed with special education needs has plummeted by 70,000 after the government announced a crackdown.read


Farmer to become millionaire after 2 DINOSAUR skeletons discovered on his land

The bones of a Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops were found on a ranch in Hell Creek in the U.S. state of Montana.read


Police officer and partner killed in 20ft plunge into building site

Gavin Brewer, 32 (pictured) and his partner Stuart Meads, 34, were leaning on boards around a construction site in Camden, London, when they gave way.read


How eating too many sweets could make you FORGETFUL

Researchers at Charite University Hospital in Berlin believe lowering people's blood sugar levels could be a way of preventing cognitive decline as they age.read


Cambridge professor releases questions put to prospective students

Prof Richard Prager, head of engineering at the historic university, said he wanted to try and 'level the playing field' for hopeful undegraduates.read


DNA tests reveal bees died out with dinosaurs but made comeback

American and Australian scientists teamed up to model a mass extinction of carpenter bees at the end of the Cretaceous and beginning of the Paleogene eras.read


Galaxy 13.1bn light years away confirmed as our most distant neighbour

The galaxy, named z8-GND-5296, is so remote scientists are observing it at a time when the universe was in its infancy.read


A vanishing way of life captured forever: British photographer travels the world to record dozens of 'dying' tribes that are in danger disappearing forever

Jimmy Nelson has spent the last three years photographing 35 of the most aesthetically beautiful and remote tribes in all corners of the world.read


False widow spiders force Gloucestershire school to close

Dean Academy in Lydney, Gloucestershire was forced to close its doors after reports of 'rapidly multiplying' false widow spiders in the school.read


Toyota recalls almost a million cars because SPIDER WEBS could trigger air bags to inflate and cause drivers to lose control

The auto manufacturer has recalled Camrys, Venzas and Avalons as well as their hybrid counterparts, in the U.S. that were built from 2012 onwards.read


Cameron's vow to 'roll back' green taxes slammed as 'panicky' by Clegg

The Prime Minister came under pressure from Labour leader Ed Miliband to implement the tax on energy companies proposed yesterday by former Tory Prime Minister Sir John Major.read


Retired computer analyst 'murdered in his garage' in Luton

Detectives said Leonard Flower was 'violently and savagely set upon' in the garage of his home in Luton on Tuesday afternoon.read


Royal Mail's biggest shareholder revealed

The Children’s Investment Fund, which has built up a 5 per cent stake, is run by Chris Hohn who is also one of the UK’s leading philanthropists.read


British drug smuggler sent to 10 years jail after Japan overturns his acquittal

Robert Geoffrey Sawyer, 56, has been through Japan's entire legal system from a lay court, which initially acquitted him, to the Supreme Court. The case calls into question Japan's reformed judiciary, in particular the role and powers of a court presided by members of the public.read


How Briton who walked into glass door in a bikini could push up the price of holidays after winning £24,000 payout

Moira Japp, 35 from Worthing West Sussex, above, was staying at the Crystal Cove resort in Barbados when she walked into the door.read


Britain battered by bad weather with flood warnings for 20 rivers

Britain is facing a double whammy of bad weather with heavy rain and floods expected to be followed by a 90mph storm. Police cleared drains in London (left) while roads around Glasgow flooded (right)read


Toddler 'strangled to death' in freak accident when his head got trapped between gates that were meant to stop him going downstairs

Xander Stephenson, who was just two weeks from his second birthday, was unable to breathe when he got wedged in the gates at his home in Poulton, Lancashire.read


Girl, four, accidentally drowned her two-year-old brother in a few inches of water after turning on bath taps

Hayan Kurrum, 2, fell into a bath which his 4-year-old sister had filled while their mother was out of the room at their family home in Bradford.read


Nursery teacher banned from speaking Polish after deputy head brands it 'one of those weird languages' wins £7,000 payout

Barbara Jurga was told by staff at Lavendale Montessori nursery school in Woodside Park, north London not to speak her native tongue.read


I had the girl that I wanted and I had a great future... it was all taken away: Boyfriend of murdered mother-to-be reveals his struggle nearly three years after her death

Ryan Morris, pictured with his murdered girlfriend Nikitta Grender, from Newport, South Wales, has said he was looking forward to settling down before she was killed.read


Worker faceplants in background of live KRQE broadcast

In a recent broadcast on Albuquerque-based KRQE, an as yet unnamed person flew into shot and landed with a thud on the floor.read


Cash-strapped Warwickshire Council spent £12k on 'overblown PR' videos

Warwickshire County Council, which is tasked with slashing £92million from its budget, spends £12,000 a year on the short films, which feature an attractive blonde presenter and a 'ticker tape' running headlines along the bottom of the screen.read


Grandmother with severe dementia sent home to wrong address

Sylvia Dawson, 76, was incapable of telling the driver where she lived and ended up 30 miles away from her home after medical staff gave the driver incorrect details.read


Forensic expert killed after being hit by a train was 'driven to suicide after having two fingers amputated'

Father-of-two Michael Hatcher, 33, had two fingers removed on his left hand as a child, following an accident on a slide.read


Nicole Waterhouse murdered and colleague 23, is seriously hurt after attack

Jeremy Green, 25 will appear in York Magistrates Court charged with the murder of Nicole Waterhouse (pictured right) and attempted murder of Karen Browne.read


Royal Marine 'murdered injured Afghan national after he had been captured by shooting him in the chest'

The serviceman, known only as Marine A, shot the man in the chest with a pistol at close range during an incident in September 2011, it is said.read


German fury as US deny Merkel phone hacking

Angela Merkel's government said it took the allegations 'extremely seriously' after media reports said the National Security Agency had hacked into her mobile phone 'for years'.read


Citizenship for children of illegal immigrants born in France will be banned, says Jean-Francoise Cope

Jean Francoise-Cope, leader of the UMP party, wants to end automatic citizenship for children with only one French parent.read


How dogs are getting HIGH in Berlin: Drug users' excrement is causing canines to ingest hard drugs in the city's parks

The canines have fallen ill in parks in the Kreuzburg and Treptow areas of Berlin, which attract drug users and have ingested drugs as hard as heroin.read


Is it better for your relationship to have sex out of guilt than not at all? Yes, but you'll still upset your partner...

University of Toronto researchers say having sex out of guilt can reduce the satisfaction a partner gets, whereas having sex to increase intimacy boosts a relationship.read


Brazil's transsexual beauty pageant where winner gets sex change operation

For the first time, the organisers, the Transgender Association for the State of Rio de Janeiro (RIO ASTRA), are offering the winner a transsexual operation from male to female, in Thailand.read


Aung San Suu Kyi meets Prince Charles and Camilla as David Cameron pledges support

The Nobel peace laureate made a special request to see Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall before her interview with David Cameron at Downing Street.read


Apple's new iPad Air a step up or a load of hot air?

With Apple's co-founder Wozniak slamming the devices for style over substance, other experts are torn as to whether customer expectation is really the problem.read


'RBS cashier stole personal bank details for fraud gang who plotted to plunder £3million from accounts but were caught after swiping just £135,000'

Derek Annan, 24, of Chafford hundred, Essex, is accused of passing customers' security details and passwords on to fraudsters who attempted to withdraw money from their accounts.read


Hawaii surfer, Jeff Horton, fights off tiger shark by punching it in eye

Jeff Horton, a former boxer, was surfing off Pila'a Beach near Kilaueai in Kauai on Sunday when the shark lunged at his board.read


Dog stuck in a bath, a kitten trapped inside a wall and a snake which couldn't find its way out of a cabbage patch: The RSPCA's weirdest emergency calls revealed

The RSPCA carried out 200,000 rescues last year many of which really took the biscuit - including a dog who got stuck in a plug holeread


Meet the teenage girl who launched a custom jewelry company at age 14 that is now set to rake in $250MILLION this year

Bella Weems, from Chandler, Arizona, is now 17, but she was only 14 when she thought up the idea for Origami Owl - a direct sales jewelry company.read


Australia bans sunbeds in every state in a bid to slash deaths from skin cancer

Every state has now either banned or is planning to outlaw commercial sunbeds due to the country having some of the highest skin cancer rates in the world.read


Australian cadets filmed female colleague having sex at military academy over Skype to dorm of male recruits

Dylan Deblaquiere (pictured) and Daniel McDonald, both 21, escaped jail terms after being convicted of filming the sex session at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra.read


Jonas Eriksson: The secret millionaire referee who should have sent off Lewandowski

Jonas Eriksson, 39, became a multi-millionaire after selling his 15 per cent stake in a Swedish sports media rights business over six years ago for about £6million.read


Would you clone your DOG? South Korean scientist is offering one British canine owner the chance to recreate his best friend

Sooam Biotech in Seoul, South Korea, has organised the contest exclusively for UK dog owners. The cloning process will be shown on Channel 4 next year.read


Is sandy imprint proof of bigfoot? Man says sasquatch has moved next door

The owner of a remote home in California's rural Tehama County says a bigfoot has moved into the woodland behind his house.read


Mother-of-13 Barbara Fari 'exaggerated injuries' after tripping on paving stone

Lawyers told a High Court judge that Barbara Fari, of Haringey, north London, lied about how badly she was hurt and should be found to be in contempt of court.read


Drink-driver who crash landed his Audi TT into the side of a HOUSE just inches from a sleeping five-year-old is banned from driving for two years

Lewis Richardson, 22, lost control of his red Audi TT while trying to find his girlfriend after an argument during a night out.read


Banksy's New York 'residency' may have ended after 'police activity'

Police in New York aching to catch world-renowned street artist Banksy have halted his activity for at least one day - the street artist cancelled Wednesday’s artwork.read


Google search reveals world's REAL, misogynistic views towards women

Based on searches on March 9, 2013, the adverts for UN Women expose the negative attitudes ranging from stereotyping as well as a denial of women's rights.read


I swell up like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory girl Violet Beauregarde': Bodybuilder allergic to all insects after severe reaction to false widow bite

Gary Meadows, 34, from Teesville in Middlesbrough, has been hospitalised four times because of insects after the venomous spider bit him two years ago.read


Policeman catches 'The Parrot', the biggest freshwater fish in Britain

Constable Matt Bryant was fishing in Wasing Estate fishery in Berkshire, which has a 10-year-waiting list due to the size of its fish.read


Chelyabinsk meteor goes on show: Giant 600kg chunk is displayed after being hauled from the bottom of a Russian lake

A rock, believed to be one of the largest pieces of the meteorite, is being exhibited at the Chelyabinsk Regional History Museum in the Southern Urals.read


TB vans fitted with X-ray machines return to the streets of London as cases of the lung disease soar

Similar vans were once commonly used but most disappeared in the 1970s when TB rates dropped. Now the UK has more cases than the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece and Norway combined each year.read


Mobile phone companies told to scrap sneak price rises on fixed fee contracts that cost customers £90million

Watchdogs are to end a £90million a year rip-off by mobile phone giants who hit customers with sneak price rises on supposedly fixed fee contracts.read


Dramatic shots of the RAF in action offer a different perspective on the dangerous and challenging life of the brave men and women of the skies

The stunning images, taken by RAF personnel and civilians and named winners of the Royal Air Force Photographic competition, capture the work undertaken by the air force around the world.read


Security guard's body found in Paris flat 8 YEARS after he killed himself

Thomas Ngin's death in the suburb of Bussy-Saint-Georges is now being used as an example of how isolated people can become in modern society.read


Spanish researchers admit using human bodies as crash test dummies

The scientists, from Alcaniz, northern Spain, said not only are they cheaper they also yield better results.read


Ringo Starr appeals for teenagers in 1964 photo to come forward

The group were snapped by Starr in Miami Beach, Florida, after their car drew up alongside the convertible The Beatles were in.read


The satellite that could help detect forest fires before they get out of control, to save money and lives

University of California Berkeley scientists said the satellite could cut the cost of the U.S.' $2.5bn annual firefighting bill.read


Nick Veasey, artist deglamorises guns by reducing them to X-ray images

The works were made by British artist Nick Veasey in an attempt to 'deglamorise' guns by reducing them to the status of scientific specimens.read


Hospital nurse claims 'a***hole is a figure of speech in Scotland' at hearing into whether she abused her housemate

Anne Gallacher, pictured, is accused of slapping the woman and making racist comments about black people and foreigners, the Nursing and Midwifery Council heard.read


Russia reduces Greenpeace Arctic activists' charges to 'hooliganism'

The change of charges means that instead of a possible 15 years imprisonment for piracy the 'Arctic 30' could face seven years in jail.read


Chinese monastery restores ancient wall painting to look like Disney cartoon

The original Buddhist artworks at the Yunjie Temple in China's Liaoning Province were believed to have been created some 270 years ago during the early Qing Dynasty.read


White is the favorite car color of choice in 2013

PPG Industries, supplier of automotive paints, says 25 per cent of the vehicles it supplied in the 2013 model year were white.read


Chinese man climbs high voltage pylon due to pressure of debt

The young man had climbed up 24-metre high voltage tower in Foshan, in Guangdong province, in southeast China.read


Mac on... The Great British Bake off

Mac's cartoon on what happens to the Bake Off's left over cakes...read


Global warming costs the world a billion dollars a DAY - but DOUBLE that is needed to combat climate change, claims report

Francisco-based Climate Policy Initiative claims that the annual total of $359 billion is just a fraction of what is needed to address climate change.read


Does bird poop coffee make the 'ultimate brew'? Organic Brazilian farmer harvests high-end beans plucked from droppings

Bio-dynamic coffee farmer Henrique Sloper, the founder of Camocim organic coffee in Brazil, has found the ultimate high-end bean: in bird droppings.read


Funny snaps show alligator in South Carolina making a meal of a pink flip flop

Stunned snapper Phil Lanoue lives just metres from the salt marshes in Huntington Beach State Park, South Carolina, where the incredible images were taken.read


Holocaust survivor, 90, performs music composed 70 years ago in Nazis prison camp

George Horner and Ma received floral bouquets and a standing ovation from the audience of about 1,000 people in Boston's Symphony Hall last night.read


Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana announced as designers for Claridge's infamous Christmas Tree this year

The iconic tree will depict elements from a traditional festive scene combined with elements of the designers’ heritage.read


Farmer adopts donkey rejected by mother as family pet

The frightened foal survived after being hand-fed goat milk in a baby’s bottle every two hours by Jane Nelson, 49, pictured at her farm in Carlisle, Cumbria.read


California car owners warned to lock their vehicles after spate of bears getting trapped in them as they look for food

The issue has arisen in the Californian town of Truckee, with the insides of several vehicles left in ruins by the hungry creatures.read


Meow-ouch! Lucky escape for the cat who was shot through head with a crossbow

Four-year-old Moomoo only survived because the bolt missed his brain and instead embedded in his skull above his left eye. The metal was successfully removed by a veterinary surgeon in New Zealand.read


The folding bike helmet you can flatten and pop in your handbag

Jeff Woolf, 54, from London, pictured, invented the foldable helmet after being hit by a car when cycling.read


Elephant seal gets a fetching new look after rolling in penguin feathers

Photographer John Eastcott, from the Catskills, New York, US, captured the moment in Right Whale Bay on South Georgia Island, near the Falkland Islands.read