A rare cancer-busting mineral which has only ever been found in space has been discovered growing on plants - in the UK. The mineral, called vaterite, has so far only been traced on a few sea creatures, rocks and meteorites from outer space. But it has now appeared on alpine...
A council have launched a crackdown on homeowners that dump rubbish outside their homes - by threatening them with huge fines. Greenwich Council have released images of two households that let rubbish pile up so high in their front gardens the windows were blocked. Both houses which saw the small...
A new drug for the deadliest form of breast cancer has been developed by scientists. The drug is particularly effective in treating the triple negative aggressive breast cancer that often kills women under 40. It attacks cells in the 10-15 per cent of aggressive cases that are resistant to hormone...
A vicar has become the first to be banned from the ministry for 'spiritual abuse' - for putting a teenage boy he was mentoring under "unacceptable pressure". Reverend Timothy Davis preached to the lad with such intensity that he was "deprived of his freedom of choice", the Bishop's Disciplinary Tribunal...
A second 1066 invasion is set to go ahead after a delegation from Normandy plans to descend on Bristol in a bid to poach businesses opposed to Brexit The French special envoy will arrive in Bristol next week with a large bus brandishing a faux-classified advert stating: “Hot Entrepreneur Wanted....
A campaigning farmer is demanding the terms "pig-out" and "eat like a pig" are removed from the dictionary - claiming they're unfair and offensive to the animals. Fergus Howie, 43, has written to the Oxford English Dictionary to demand that the "derogatory" terms are removed or redefined. The term "pig-out"...
An eco-friendly woman is so green she doesn't even own a bin - and fits all her monthly waste into a JAM JAR. Canny Adele Morgan, 23, recycles virtually everything and generates hardly any rubbish. She turns all her food into compost, makes her own toothpaste, cleans her home with...
A woman sparked debate after criticising children who used her household bin to throw away rubbish. Posting on a Facebook group, the woman said: “Bins outside someone’s front door are not public bins.” But other social media users hit back and said the children should be praised for using bins...
Vince Cable has thrown himself, and his party even deeper into the Brexit argument during a speech over the weekend The Lib Dem leader was speaking to crowds at his party’s spring conference yesterday. Cable slammed Brexit and the outcome of the EU referendum, claiming that the vote has started...