Exeter Chiefs rugby union club has ditched its Red Indian mascot to appease anti-racism campaigners, who complained it was offensive to Native Americans. That would, presumably, be all those members of the Navaho and Arapaho tribes living in Devon. Er, not exactly. The Big Chief Must Fall campaign is spearheaded …...Read More

A savvy mother-of-two has transformed a vintage caravan into a spectacular arts and crafts space after spending just nine days on renovations. Carmen Blanch, from Gloucester on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, decided to create the ultimate 'craftvan' in her garden - complete with a sewing table, …...Read More

Perhaps you would prefer to buy 19 small family cars. Or one average house, anywhere in the UK. Or even 115,500 big bars of Dairy Milk. But for one anonymous shopper, there was just one thing they wanted to spend their £231,000 on this week: a Hermes Himalaya Birkin bag. …...Read More

For the first time in history, scientists have genetically altered squid embryos by removing a pigmentation gene that resulted in transparent creatures. The team used CRISPR-Cas9 to ‘knock out’ the gene in a Doryteuthis pealeii and in turn eliminated coloring from the eyes and skin cells. The procedure involved clipping …...Read More

Only the quick thinking of the first mate saved John Howland when a towering wave swept him from the ship’s deck. The young seaman managed to grab a halyard as he plunged into the sea, but it wasn’t enough to stop him being dragged underwater and smashed against the side …...Read More

To think it was only last year — 1 BC (Before Covid), as it may one day be renamed, 2019 on our current reckoning. I took the early Great Western train from South Wales to Paddington, the one that served breakfast. Different world. It was a proper breakfast, too. English …...Read More

Arsenal and Chelsea have been handed a kit headache ahead of Saturday’s FA Cup Final. Both clubs have been asked to add patches for Heads Up - the Prince William-led mental health charity - on the front of already congested shirts. It has meant that in order to satisfy the …...Read More

Today's home-buyers face a new problem. If they are considering moving to a different town, how can they distinguish between those town centres that will bounce back when the pandemic has passed, and those which will be commercial black spots? Several experts believe the answer may lie in our street …...Read More

President Donald Trump doubled down on his threat to delay November's election, citing concerns mail-in voting could lead to a 'rigged' and 'crooked' result as one of the Republican Party's most prominent conservative members said Trump should be impeached over the matter. Trump, in a brief news conference at the …...Read More

Numbering the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales and Zara and Peter Phillips among its alumni, £41,250-a-year Gordonstoun can lay claim to more royal connections than any other public school of the modern era. But that has not insulated it from complaints by former pupils who are ‘horrified’ and …...Read More