Jeremy Corbyn is to speak to the organisers of the Glastonbury festival about their use of zero-hours contracts, taking the gloss off the festival, heralded as one of the best in a number of years. The Labour leader made a triumphant performance in from go a huge crowd. Corbyn appeared on...
Two dozy agency workers have been suspended after they were pictured appearing to be ASLEEP in the lounge of a care home. It is believed that the women, wearing their uniforms, napped for nearly three hours while they should have been looking after elderly people and dementia sufferers. One...
A council is being sued by a tenant because he can't do his washing - after 8PM. Steve Norman took action when the opening hours at a communal laundry in a housing development changed without notice. The facility, with two washing machines and two tumble dryers, had been open...
A quirky couple are living a real-life fairytale after turning their semi into a medieval CASTLE. Martin and Jayne Townley have painted the rear of the house to look like a grey stone fortress complete with battlements and archways over the windows. They have banners and flags flying from...
Baffled residents were left outraged after a parking warden left his car carelessly across half a bay - and say he should have given himself a ticket. A picture snapped by local Steven Way shows the enforcement officer's shoddy parking outside the white lines, although not obstructing other cars....
A sea monster that roamed the oceans during the age of the dinosaurs kept its 23 foot neck straight as a rod as it hunted like crocodiles or snakes, a study shows. The plesiosaur was a swimming reptile that thrived for 140 million years despite having a neck that measured...
These pictures show a special extra-terrestrial on set during filming of the latest series of Doc Martin - Alien star Sigourney Weaver. The A-list Hollywood actress was captured looking very much the tourist in a yellow coat, sun-hat and a camera wrapped around her neck. The popular TV show...
Museum staff were baffled after discovering an Egyptian mummy's HAND during a clear out. The mummified limb belonging to an ancient woman was found in a plastic box. Bones were visible near the wrist and the skin was blackened and flaking with age, although the discoloured fingernails were still...
A new colony of Asian Hornets has been found in the Channel Islands - fuelling fears for the UK's native bee population. The invasive insect has reappeared on Jersey less than a year after they were first spotted on nearby Alderney. A colony - believed to have contained 6,000...