Wipe out! Moment a teenager is engulfed by a huge wave as he poses on rocks at the Giant’s Causeway Conan Griffin, 18, was hit by a large wave in County Antrim, Northern Ireland His friend Kallum Clark, 18, filmed the fall and posted it on Twitter on Monday Conan suffered painful red burns after … Read more
Hilarious moment four-year-old girl is catapulted through the air when her uncle plonks down on an inflatable bed beside her Ebony Johnson flew into the air when her uncle sat on a blow-up seat beside her David, 57, catapulted the giggling four-year-old into the air in the amusing game Amusing footage, taken in Newcastle on … Read more
US has handed the UK intelligence showing which Chinese officials should be targeted with sanctions over human rights abuses, ‘Mike Pompeo tells MPs at private meeting’ as pressure grows on Boris Johnson to take action Mike Pompeo apparently told MPs the US had shared its intelligence with the UK Intelligence sets out which officials to … Read more
An ‘aggressive’ deer at an English beauty spot had to be shot dead after it injured a park-goer in an incident believed to have been sparked by a family feeding it carrots. The National Trust says the wild animal had to be put down after it began ‘posing an immediate threat’ to visitors at Knole … Read more
Cardiacs frontman Tim Smith dead at 59: Fans mourn death of singer for British cult rock band that inspired the likes of Blur and Radiohead Smith suffered a heart attack in 2008 which left his ability to speak impaired Band, which influenced Blur and Radiohead, have since been on hiatus Tim started the band with … Read more
Britain could avoid another coronavirus lockdown if at least half of the nation follows hand-washing, social distancing and mask-wearing rules, research has suggested. Experts based in the Netherlands used a complex computer model to stimulate how effective coronavirus-prevention methods would be in halting another crisis. When a combination of the virus-controlling methods are practised by … Read more
Labour will pay ‘substantial damages’ to seven whistleblowers over ‘defamatory and false allegations’ made after BBC Panorama anti-Semitism probe Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party made formal apology to whistleblowers today Move as part of a settlement is a clear breach with policy under Jeremy Corbyn Whistleblowers sued party for defamation after BBC Panorama probe last … Read more
Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has revealed she ordered officers not to ‘take the knee’ and says she would not do it herself. Dame Cressida, 59, defended the two policemen who adopted the pose at Black Lives Matter protests in June. But she said she had instructed officers at every briefing since to avoid doing … Read more
Blood test can detect five types of cancer FOUR YEARS before symptoms appear — including tumours in the lungs and liver PanSeer test can detect stomach, oesophagus, bowel, lung and liver cancer Their findings could help identify those at high risk of developing the disease Analysed plasma samples from 605 people who didn’t have any … Read more
Magic! Amazon driver knocks three times then yells ‘abracadabra’ and runs away after teenager edits the ‘special instructions’ for his mother’s delivery An Amazon driver hilariously played along with a child’s ‘special instructions’ Jacob Staffieri, 13, asked the driver to knock three times and yell ‘abracadabra’ Lynn Staffieri, from Magnolia, Delaware, caught the amusing moment … Read more