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Frankly I blame beer for it, this whole obsession over sporting records. If it wasn't for beer's foaming head giving the men who drink it equally foaming heads would we really care who scored how many goals or runs in however many games in the year of one's father's birth? Such statistics are shouted, scribbled on napkins, or carved into foreheads in certain waterfront drinking establishments in order to settle arguments. Those arguments in turn begin in order to settle...

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 cranial mound, disguised by an "elegant" top knot, and elongated earlobes. The sculpture originates from the ancient kingdom of Gandhara, situated in modern northwest Pakistan and has now been put...

A glorious sunrise caught on a mackerel sky over Normanton, West Yorkshire. A glorious sunrise caught on a mackerel sky over Normanton, West Yorkshire. The term is used when the sky is full of rows of cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds displaying in an undulating and rippling pattern similar in appearance to the fishes scales. A glorious sunrise caught on a mackerel sky over Normanton, West Yorkshire.

An exhibition of pictures has gone on display painted by a paralysed artist - using only his MOUTH. Talented Richard Wood, who died this year aged 46, grew up with a keen interest in art. In 1991, at the age of 21, he became paralysed from the shoulders down after he hit a sandbank while diving. Mouth painter Richard Wood. But the determined artist was keen to carry on painting and used his mouth to hold paintbrushes so he could...

John Lennon's priceless Rolls-Royce has arrived back on British tarmac for the first time in more than 40 YEARS. The 'carparazzi' have been lining London's streets and visiting hotel car parks this summer to take photos of the exotic motors owned by Middle-Eastern playboys. But the rarest and most valuable car to arrive in the capital could be the 1965 Rolls-Royce Phantom V first owned by the legendary Beatle. John Lennon’s priceless Rolls-Royce is back on British tarmac for the...

They say that compromise is the key to a happy relationship, and so for the past few months every night at 9pm I have sat down to watch Love Island in exchange for TV dibs during test matches and live football games. I want to say that I've hated every moment of it, but the reality is that I've that it has been a thoroughly enjoyable series. I've laughed out loud, shed the occasional tear and gasped on numerous occasions...

Shocking video footage has emerged today of BBC producer Fergus Beeley's road rage rant - and he has already been likened to TV's misanthropic Basil Fawlty. John Cleese's fictional character, who is the star of TV comedy Fawlty Towers, is renowned for his spiteful and abusive treatment of guests. But even his rants couldn't beat the rage displayed by the producer behind many of David Attenborough's BBC shows. Beeley flew into a "raving state" after his car was forced to pull over at the side...

This amazing set of pictures shows the iconic kingfisher's dive for food in a Suffolk river. It is the result of hundreds of attempts by wildlife snapper Vince Burton to capture what to the naked eye is a flash of blue and orange followed by a splash. This truly amazing set of pictures shows the iconic kingfisher's dive for food in a Suffolk river. Vince, 40, has spent thousands of hours observing kingfishers in the wild attempting to photograph the...

It's red carpet night at Sadler's Wells and the stars are out to see Diego Romay's Tanguera as it makes another stop in London as part of a successful worldwide tour. Set in La Boca, the once ill-famed docklands of Buenes Aires with its many cafes and brothels, this has traditional Argentinian tango at its heart. The ports were renowned at the turn of the century for being fateful places where hundreds of thousands of homeless immigrants, poverty stricken gauchos, rampant sailors...