Plucky magpie tries to chase away bearded vulture but the massive bird just ignores it

Get off my land! Plucky magpie tries to chase away bearded vulture but the massive bird just ignores it The bizarre encounter was recorded by an onlooker in Thorney, Cambridgeshire The two-year-old female vulture, called Vigo, was spotted feasting on a rabbit  It was unfazed by the continued nuisance caused by its smaller feathered foe  … Read more

Fly-tippers beware… don’t mess with me! Step forward one very plucky lady who snapped at two men

By her own account, Andrea Good has a ‘very feisty’ temper, is a ‘very strict’ mother to her three children, is ‘upfront and straight up’ and appears to keep her IT contractor husband Rob on his toes at all times. So it goes without saying that when she saw two men in hi-viz jackets hurling … Read more

Plucky buyer who wrote to owners of a house she liked reveals how she got it

A social worker with a flair for interior design has revealed how she managed to bag a property she fell in love with – simply by sending the owners a hand-written letter expressing her interest.  Sally Deakin, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, who lived in a new-build before she spotted the traditional mid-terrace on Lawn Avenue, … Read more