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University student hoping her 13,000 word dissertation has the X Factor – after writing it on One Direction
A final year university student is hoping she's got the X-Factor to land a first class honours degree - after writing her dissertation about ONE DIRECTION. Pollyanna Kehoe, 20, is penning a 13,000 word Sociology essay entirely based on the "fandom" surrounding the biggest boy band on the planet The 1D megafan has whole sections dedicated to Zayn Malik leaving the group and even the Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson "bromance". Pollyanna said she decided to focus on her...
A half-smoked cigar butt which was stubbed out by Sir Winston Churchill is expected to fetch £700 at auction
The butt was found wrapped up in an old shoebox after being handed to police officer Bill Wood as a souvenir
Five-year-old rescued from well after two days trapped inside
Roshan Singh was playing with friends in a field when he fell into the uncovered bore well, which was 117ft deep
Can you fare better than the kids do in this great social experiment?
Many schoolchildren don’t think women can be builders, footballers or lorry drivers.
Mother comes home to find all her possessions thrown on the street by heartless landlord
A mother of ten said she was devastated when she came home to find her landlord had tossed all of her belongings out of her second floor flat into the rain. Five TVs and a sofa bed were hurled 30ft out the window of the flat where Donna Newby and her family have lived for the last nine years. The 41-year-old found her children's toys and a memory box of things from her baby daughter, who died at just five-weeks-old,...
A Church of England vicar became the first to be banned from the ministry – for ‘spiritual abuse’
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 found. He began mentoring the 15-year-old after moving in with his family in 2013 and held private one-to-one prayer sessions that would last up to two hours. His family allowed...
Farmer is demanding the terms “pig-out” & “eat like a pig” are removed from dictionary – claiming they’re unfair & offensive to animals
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" is defined as "a bout of eating a large amount of food e.g 'a junk food pig-out'". But he says that despite the stereotype, pigs are no greedier than any...
A parent on school run has sparked fury by refusing to move car that’s parked in front of fire station
A parent on the school run has sparked fury by refusing to move their car - despite being parked in front of a fire station. The motorist said they wouldn't shift their vehicle from outside Cricklade Fire Station in Wiltshire despite being asked to by firefighters. The incident took place on Friday afternoon outside the fire station opposite St Sampson's Church of England Primary School at school picking up time. The white Mercedes A180 was parked on the yellow hatchings...
Van driver avoided jail despite crashing into a cyclist and killing him
A careless driver has avoided jail after he lost control of his transit van and killed a cyclist. William Cottrell, 48, ploughed into pensioner Frank Cubis, 75, during a "lapse in concentration" on a busy road. The keen cyclist was rushed to hospital where he remained in a critical condition for almost two months before he died at around 10am on 25 May 2016. Following his death on 5 July Cottrell was arrested on suspicion of causing death by careless...