A Mercedes driver had a lucky escape when he ploughed his luxury motor through a wall into a RIVER – before abandoning the car. The expensive German motor’s front end plunged into the River Thames, leaving the windscreen smashed. Pictures taken at the scene show the flash motor with the driver’s door swung open, as neighbours described how the owner walked away and abandoned it near the railway station in Oxford at around 6pm on Friday (22/9). Residents said the...
A mother and son who run an adult shop have become one of the first official vendors in the country - of sex ROBOTS. Tracey Whitmore and her son Christopher have gained the second licence in the country to sell 'realist' kinky robots - for a whopping £3,500. The mother-and-son duo run Vibes Adult Boutique in Aylesford, Kent, and hope lonely men or couples wanting to spice up their love lives will snap up silicon 'Samantha.' Tracey says the latest...
This video captures the moment a sex offender is snared by paedophile hunters - outside the Houses of Parliament. Ashley Emery, 44, exchanged explicit messages with someone he thought was a 15-year-old girl and then arranged to meet in the centre of London. The production manager and amateur football coach took a day off work and travelled an hour from his home in Middlesex to meet the fictional child. But he was actually conversing with two 'paedophile hunters' - vigilantes...
A 94-year-old pianist with dementia celebrated 75 years of marriage - with a rendition of his wife's favourite song which he has never forgotten. Former soldier Edward Hardy struggles to remember a lot of things because of his disabling illness. But he has never lost his playing ability and could still serenade wife Betty, 92, with 50s jazz classic Misty to mark the milestone on Thursday (Sep 21). The couple married as teenagers before Ed served with The Musical Corp...
A quirky artist has created stunning three-dimensional masterpieces - using more than 30,000 screws. Bruce Mackley, 54, uses painted screws to build stunning works of 'scrap art', which he also calls 'industrial mosaics'. The pieces can contain up to 30,000 screws, weigh up to 350lbs, and are up to seven feet tall. Bruce, from East Lansing, Michigan, has had no formal training in fine art and says he has spent the past 35 years working as an illustrator, graphic designer...
Two squaddies and a civilian accused of being members of a banned neo-Nazi group were told they will face trial next year when they appeared at the Old Bailey. Lance Corporal Mikko Vehvilainen, 32, Private Mark Barrett, 24, and civilian Alexander Deakin, 22, were allegedly part of National Action. The far-right group was outlawed last December on the grounds it is 'virulently racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic'. The three men are all charged with membership of a proscribed organisation, alleging they...
This deadly array of knives and guns were handed into a single police force in just a four month period as part of their latest weapons amnesty. The chilling haul of 184 knives or sharp objects, two hand guns and two BB guns were found in 12 weapon surrender bins across the West Midlands. Two revolvers were discovered complete with eight rounds of 9mm ammunition in Small Heath, Birmingham. Reverand Bryan Scott and Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson holds...
A lesbian couple have been banned from keeping pets for life after they starved their two dogs - leaving one dead before leaving the animal's body to rot in a plastic bag. Danielle Rogers and Keeley Scott, both 19, failed to feed crossbreed Lulu and dumped her body in a park after she died. The couple also mistreated another dog, black-and-white Staffordshire bull terrier Patch, which was found to be half its normal body weight. The couple, from Worcester, were...
A ten-year-old girl suffered a broken arm after she was struck by a "knife-wielding" boy dressed as a killer CLOWN. Casie Morrison, ten, was playing in the park with her siblings when a figure emerged from the bushes dressed as a creepy clown wearing a Slender Man mask. Mum Kirsty, 36, told the boy - who was reportedly carrying a KNIFE - to clear off, and he fled when older boys in the park gave chase. But the boy barged...
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