An outraged spectator dialled 999 today - to complain that the Queen was not wearing a seatbelt. The un-named member of the public dialled the emergency number after watching the Queen and Prince Charles from the Palace of Westminster on TV. The caller complained to West Yorkshire Police that neither...
Monty Python legend Michael Palin has been awarded an honorary doctorate from one of Scotland's most prestigious universities. The accomplished actor, writer and television presenter was made an honorary Doctor of Science by the University of St Andrews, Fife, this morning. He joins fellow Monty Python members Terry Jones, who...
Jeremy Corbyn is set for a rapturous reception when he steps on to the Pyramid stage tomorrow with 81-year-old festival founder Michael Eavis. People queuing at the event yesterday broke out in the viral "Oh Jeremy Corbyn" chant which was started when the Labour leader appeared at a Libertines concert in Tranmere....
Today Britain celebrates its first Brexiversary. A year on from the vote to leave the European Union we are already a poorer, weaker and less happy nation than we once were and we haven't even properly started the process yet. With our only political moves being ones to sure-up existing EU...
Grim retail figures have been released ahead of the one year anniversary of the European Union (EU) referendum. From 2016-2017, UK consumers, on a daily average, made 3,923,336 purchases online, but that number plummeted on key Brexit dates. The day referendum results were announced 1,642,100 purchases were made in the UK...
The Daily Mail has waged a war on the "fascist left" in what may go down as one of the most ironic pieces of journalism in media history. After it was crushed by so-called "alt left" publications in the 2017 General Election right-wing editor Paul Dacre launched a full scale attack in...
Dozens of schoolboys were preparing for a dressing down today after around 50 wore skirts to school in protest at a 'no shorts' policy. The teens - aged from Years 7 to 11 - formed a mass protest the day after five boys wore skirts on the hottest day of...
Protesters marched in peace today just hours after the media unleashed a day of rage. Anti-austerity activists marched from Shepherds Bush to Downing Street following the tragic Grenfell Tower incident and “brutal austerity, cuts and anti-immigrant attacks”. According to the 2017 Social Progress Index released this week Britain is flat-lining on...
Archaeologists have uncovered one of the oldest prosthetic body parts in human history - a 3,000 year old wooden toe. The intricately crafted big toe, which even includes a carved-out toenail, was discovered in a female burial from the necropolis of Sheikh 'Abd el-Qurna, in Egypt. Study of the toe...