A school has become one of the first to change its term times - so parents can take advantage of cheaper out-of-season HOLIDAYS. Kids at Severn Vale School are still at their desks this week despite the rest of the country's pupils beginning their summer holidays. Staff have cut short...
A two-thousand-year-old Buddhist sculpture has been put on public display as part of an exhibition of objects collected by Scots in India. The stone Buddha head is said to be one of the earliest physical depictions of the ascetic from ancient India. And it shows his enlightened status through a...
A flesh eating winged dinosaur that roamed Earth at the same time as T. Rex sported a spectacular head crest... which it used to woo the ladies. And it was a colourful beast with a blue face and unusually long, pink flamingo-style neck, according to an artist's impression. The weird...
A poll in Pink News in conjunction with You Gov has found some shocking news on the UK's views on homosexuality. YouGov asked 1,609 adults between July 23 and 24 on their political and social views. Shockingly it found 42% of those who gave an opinion said that personally speaking,...
A violent bully broke into his ex girlfriend's house and held her hostage in an ordeal of "uncontrolled viciousness" during which he forced an angry dog to BITE her. He used the growling and irate dog as a weapon during the horrendous attack and later kept his victim prisoner in...
A racist thug who tore off a Muslim woman's hijab and tried to wrap it round her neck in an unprovoked street attack has been jailed. Jake Hammersley, 25, yanked his victim's headscarf down before tightening it around her neck and punching her in the face. Moments later a mass...
Picture this. It’s Thursday afternoon. You’re sat in the office staring blankly at an inbox full of passive aggressive emails from your client. You’ve got a meeting in ten minutes but you haven’t prepared a thing - partly due to a lingering hangover from after-work drinks, but mainly because you...
A daughter who emigrated to Florida had the shock of her life - after spotting her dead mum watering the plants outside the family's old home on Google Earth. Denise Underhill was doing housework when she started thinking about her late mum Beryl Turton, who had died 18 months earlier...
A pensioner is living in fear of a flock of seagulls who are attacking her every time she goes in and out of her home. Linda Boylen, 61, says up to 15 birds have bombarded her during 'five weeks of hell'. The problem began when three chicks fell from a...