Top Gear has scrapped its ‘£1million’ Wall of Death, after using the structure for a just 16 minutes on the BBC show. Last month, Freddie Flintoff, Paddy McGuinness, and Chris Harris were all shown taking turns in driving cars around the near-vertical structure at 50 miles her hour. However, The Sun now reports that the … Read more
You may well find yourself in kinship with W. H. Auden’s soldier from his poem Roman Wall Blues at some point when walking Hadrian’s Wall. ‘Over the heather the wet wind blows/I’ve lice in my tunic and a cold in my nose/The rain comes pattering out of the sky/I’m a Wall soldier, I don’t know why.’ … Read more
The mood from across the Atlantic ahead of today’s US election is on a knife-edge, like one of those high-wire scenes from Tennessee Williams’s Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. In Washington, businesses and shops are boarding up their doors because of fears that an inconclusive victory for either President Trump or his rival, Joe … Read more
Self-driving cars have made their way to the raceway, but a Roborace in the UK took a wrong turn when one of the vehicles smashed right into a wall. The Acronis SIT Autonomous, operated by a Swiss team, was gearing up for the race when the AI hit the accelerator and made an unexpected turn … Read more
Stocks tumbled again Friday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing 157 points lower and posting its biggest weekly losses since March. Wall Street is closed out a punishing week with all three major indexes in the red, dragged down by a slide in shares of tech heavyweights following their quarterly results. The Dow had earlier … Read more
Jennifer Hawkins shares adorable family pictures of her daughter Frankie and husband Jake Wall By Zoe Burrell For Daily Mail Australia Published: 05:43 GMT, 28 October 2020 | Updated: 05:43 GMT, 28 October 2020 Jennifer Hawkins welcomed her daughter Frankie in October last year. And on Wednesday, the former Miss Universe, 36, shared a series … Read more
The moment a Ferrari driver crashes on London’s Lambeth bridge, narrowly avoiding cyclists and smashing into a wall The footage, taken inside a Ferrari 812 Superfast, was shared online on Tuesday It shows the driver speeding across the 20mph Lambeth Bridge in the supercar But he loses control and spins before smashing into the side … Read more
Boris Johnson was facing a growing north and south revolt over lockdown today as some of his newest MPs demanded he produce an exit strategy for some of the areas worst hit by the second wave of the pandemic. In the biggest Tory challenge to his leadership since the general election a group of 54 … Read more
WHAT ARE THE TIER THREE RULES? AND WHEN DO THEY COME INTO FORCE? Warrington will be subject to Tier Three lockdown rules as of midnight tonight. Nottingham City, Gedling, Broxtowe and Rushcliffe will be part of Tier Three from 00.01am Thursday. NEW RULES People must not socialise with anybody they do not live with, or … Read more
The government’s Tier 2 lockdown restrictions have already seen Britons snapping up pub-style patio heaters ahead of a winter of outdoor entertaining. Now, according to The Sunday Times, well-heeled souls determined to keep partying have turned their attentions to trendy £3,000 outdoor ‘wall fires’, after patio heaters and fire-pits began selling out. Residents currently living in … Read more