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A "racist" British tapestry finished by Prince Charles portraying Native Americans has been slammed by campaigners who want it banned from public display. The 267ft New World Tapestry depicting US colonisation between 1583 and 1642 has been accused of portraying indigenous people as "subhuman, warlike savages". The work took 20 years to make by 256 volunteers from Devon and Dorset and Its final stitch was sewn by Prince Charles in 2000. Volunteer Conservator Tilly Trotter looks at the New World...

A rare limited edition Tintin comic is set to become the most expensive in Europe when it goes under the hammer for up to £100,000. The 1943 edition of Les Aventres De Tintin ‘L’ile Noire’ is one of three known copies left in the world. But this edition is considered the rarest of the three because it includes handwritten notes and cut-out panels by author Hergé. The notes ask his assistants to redraw certain panels, highlighting how much of a...

A Star Wars fan has gone over to the marque side of customisation and plastered stickers from the sci-fi classic -- all over his £256,000 Rolls Royce. The 155mph Rolls-Royce Dawn is one of the world's most expensive and desirable convertibles. But having a luxury British car wasn't enough for the owner of this Roller - who might feel the force of the style police when they see it. The owner of a brand-new Rolls-Royce has covered their luxury car...

Author Rex Wood has been a regular on the dating scene for over a decade. In that time, the 30-year-old banker, based in London, has been on more than 500 dates, and has slept with over 100 women. To polish his playboy performance, Wood has assiduously kept a ‘sex spreadsheet’ that records the first names, dates and location of every erotic encounter he’s had — as well as details about what was going through his mind from the point of...

Five rare letters penned by British naval commander Lord Horatio Nelson during the Napoleonic Wars are set to go under the hammer - and could fetch a cool £35,000. One scrawling script details Nelson's worries that rumours of Napoleon Bonaparte's impending invasion of Britain were deterring recruits from signing up. In another, Nelson protests that 'not one farthing' was paid to him in the division of prize money, which seamen depended on as a primary source of income. Nelson also...

It hasn’t taken long for Amsterdam based psychedelic, shamanic trio MY BABY’s swampy blues and funk-inflected sound to cast a formidable spell. Over the past 3 years, Dutch brother-sister-duo Sheik (drums) and Cato van Dyck (vocals) and New Zealand guitarist Daniel “daFreez” Johnston have had their mojo working overtime and are now ready for the release of their third album “Prehistoric Rhythm”. With their new album, the band aim to channel a primal awareness amidst hypnotic beats, shimmering soulful vocals...

No, this is not a review of the former Secretary of State's new book What Happened. I rather doubt I shall ever get around to reading it, which actually is not that unusual, even by its purchasers. There was an interesting article by Walt Hickey on the political data site FiveThirtyEight.com the other day that looked into just that. Hickey had to use Audiobook data as people do lie about their reading like drunk salesmen fumbling their way into the family...

A picture of a pair of flies in the throes of love has won an international photography competition. The snap, taken by Irish photographer Larry Doherty scooped the top prize in the Society of International Nature and Wildlife Photographers' Spirit of Nature competition. Highly commended in the Spirit of Nature Photo competition. Labyrinth spider entrance taken by Larry Doherty from Ireland. Other runners up included pics of diving kingfishers, a polar bear on the ice a colourful portrait of a...

A shopper bought a £40 painting at a car boot sale - and discovered it was a £30,000 original by Dame Joan Collins’ son stolen from a multimillionaire. Lee Broadway, 42, unintentionally found himself at the centre of the international art theft when he innocently bought a rolled up canvas from a Bank Holiday car boot. It was only when he pulled the painting depicting the devil playing cards out of the cardboard tube at home he realised the true...