What makes F1 cars so well designed for racetracks?
Do you own a late model family saloon? Almost every aspect of it, from the body’s material, to shape, style, safety features, engine design and management system, first saw the light of day on a race track. More often than not on an F1 race car, but what is it that makes a formula one car so well designed for the race track? Aerodynamics is what: The short answer is because it’s designed to race. Just as your family saloon...
Film Review: Base
By Michael McNulty Slap a GoPro tag on Base, Richard Parry’s film about base jumping and upload it in full HD to YouTube and you have an 80 minute sponsored video. But, like the content uploaded by thrill seeking jumpers, this film holds an odd fascination that’s not entirely dissatisfying. A docu-fiction film, Base manages to captures some truly astonishing vistas and some heart stopping, stomach churning free-falling. The parachute that catches this film and slows it down is its plot....
Very rare copy of the first map to name America has emerged
An extraordinarily rare copy of the first map to name America has emerged - and it is expected to sell for almost £1 MILLION. The 1507 map, by Martin Waldseemüller, is being described as a "significant cartographic discovery". It names American for the first time and is also the first map to illustrate separate South and North American continent. The map, by the most important cartographer of the early 16th century, is one of five copies in existence and was...
Devoted bird keeps coming back to the RSPCA centre that rescued him – because he’s fallen in love with staff
A dove have fallen in love with the people who rescued him and keeps sneaking back into the animal sanctuary - through the cat flap. The bird, named Dave, was found injured in New Malden, south west London on October 12, and taken to an RSPCA rescue centre. But despite being released back into the wild after being nursed back to health, the loved-up dove keeps coming back to RSPCA Millbrook Animal Centre, almost every day - because he's fallen...
Revealed: Theresa May knew of Priti Patel secret meeting but she was told to hide it
The Jewish Chronicle just revealed that Number 10 WAS aware of Priti Patel’s extra meeting with an Israeli minister - but she was told to keep them quiet. As Priti Patel aborts an official visit to Uganda to return to the UK in a growing crisis over secret meetings with Israeli ministers and plans to divert foreign aid to Israeli Defence Force administered projects, this latest revelation raises serious questions about Theresa May’s actions. Theresa May refused to sack the...
Train staff tell passenger to pick up suspicious unattended bag and “hand it in”
A worried passenger was shocked when she reported a suspicious abandoned bag on a train and was told by staff to pick it up herself. Georgia Stone, 22, was on an 08.49am Greater Anglia service to London when she spotted a large unattended sports bag yesterday. She said on Twitter: "08.49 Bishops Stortford to Liverpool Street someone has left a large sports bag on the train on a seat by itself." Greater Anglia replied: "Hi. If there is no-one around...
Two conmen who almost bankrupted Hartlepool United in elaborate scam are jailed
Two crooked businessmen who pocketed football fan's money by stripping a professional club of its gate receipts during an elaborate scam have been jailed. Stephen Murrall, 49, and Peter Harris, 47, were trying to convince the Football League that they were 'fit and proper persons' to take over struggling Hartlepool United. But a court heard how £42,453 in gate receipts from two home games went into the pair's company but quickly disappeared. When the league made enquiries the entrepreneurs did...
Odds on Theresa May to resign and Jeremy Corbyn to win next election slashed
Theresa May is now 5/2 to resign before the new year amidst cabinet chaos. The Prime Minister's odds have been slashed from 25/1 after the actions of Priti Patel, Boris Johnson and Michael Fallon left the front bench in turmoil. Betway still holds 2018 as the favoured year for her resignation at even-money, but an unruly and misbehaved cabinet has seen her odds of leaving No.10 before the end of the year fall dramatically. The Conservatives have also been pushed out from...
A takeaway is serving vegan fish and chips – using TOFU and SEAWEED
The meat and fish free dish is slices of tofu wrapped in seaweed - dipped in vegan-friendly batter and deep fried in groundnut oil. The 'tofish and chips' was added to the menu to mark National Vegan Month at award-winning chippy, Simpsons, in Stroud, Glos, Within the first thirty minutes of being on sale, fifty portions of the £6 treat had been sold. The 'tofish' slices cost £1.50 each and has more in common with Japanese food than English seaside...