Advertisement Snooker star John Virgo led the tributes to Willie Thorne at an emotional memorial service held in Spain today as his son revealed he will be buried back in the UK. More than 80 people packed a community centre to say farewell to the 66-year-old who died last week …...Read More
John Virgo pays tribute to Willie Thorne at memorial service
Gang who raided Leicester star Demarai Gray's mansion jailed for 85 years
A gang of machete-wielding burglars who raided the luxury mansion of Premier League star Demarai Gray while his girlfriend and their baby were in bed have been jailed for a total of 85 years. The Leicester City midfielder's partner Emma Hickman, 22, was naked and looking after their six-week-old boy …...Read More
Suspected gas explosion destroys house and injures family
Advertisement A suspected gas explosion injured a mother and two children and destroyed a three-bedroom house in a Welsh village today. The roof was blown off the three-bedroom home in Seven Sisters near Neath, and brickwork at the front and back of the house was torn away. One young boy …...Read More
Leicestershire insect thieves stole 130,000 bees with vacuums
Police are hunting thieves who used hoovers to steal 130,000 bees which had been living in a chimney at a remote farm. The crooks struck at the rural site in Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, where the bees had been relocated to after the swarm was discovered inside a bricked-up fireplace. Beekeeper …...Read More
'Lunchtime economy' will be devastated if companies don't end working-from-home
A Tory former minister has today joined the growing chorus of people calling for Boris Johnson to relax the rules on working from home and get millions back into the office to save Britain's 'lunchtime economy' from ruin. The Prime Minister has announced the biggest easing of the lockdown so …...Read More
Police arrest seventh suspect in £5m golden toilet theft probe
Police have arrested a seventh suspect in connection with the theft of a £5 million solid gold toilet from Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. The 44-year-old man from Kent was arrested on suspicion of burglary on Thursday, June 18 and later released under investigation. So far six men and one woman …...Read More
China completes test run for self-developed maglev train that can travel at 372 miles per hour
Chinese engineers have successfully conducted the first trial run of the prototype of a magnetic levitation train that can travel at a top speed of 372 miles per hour, or 600 kilometres per hour. The cutting-edge vehicle is said to be designed, developed and manufactured by Chinese experts. They expect …...Read More
First view of new colour scheme for Boris Johnson's RAF Voyager
Advertisement The first pictures emerged today of the new red, white and blue £900,000 colour scheme for Boris Johnson's RAF Voyager plane - which looks like a throwback to British Airways in its 1970s heyday. The jet's tail fin could be seen inside a hangar at an airfield in Cambridgeshire, …...Read More
Neptune-sized planet found orbiting a young star 32 light years from Earth
A Neptune sized gas giant orbiting a star 180 times younger than the Sun has been discovered by astronomers and it could shed light on the evolution of the Earth. The exoplanet was found in a system 32 light-years away and its host star is only 20 to 30 million …...Read More
Water in the deep Earth triggers earthquakes and tsunamis
Water deep below the surface of the Earth triggers earthquakes and tsunamis by lowering the melting point of rocks along fault lines, a new study reveals. UK scientists say they've found a correlation between water release data and levels of seismic activity along the Caribbean-American tectonic plate border. This process …...Read More
