These pictures show a special extra-terrestrial on set during filming of the latest series of Doc Martin - Alien star Sigourney Weaver. The A-list Hollywood actress was captured looking very much the tourist in a yellow coat, sun-hat and a camera wrapped around her neck. The popular TV show starring Martin Clunes is currently filming its eight series at Port Isaac, the picturesque Cornish fishing village which doubles as fictional Portwenn. The usual cast members were joined on Tuesday...

  Museum staff were baffled after discovering an Egyptian mummy's HAND during a clear out. The mummified limb belonging to an ancient woman was found in a plastic box. Bones were visible near the wrist and the skin was blackened and flaking with age, although the discoloured fingernails were still intact. But it was not an official part of a huge collection of 100,000 historical objects and how it got there and when has baffled curators. The bizarre find was...

  A new colony of Asian Hornets has been found in the Channel Islands - fuelling fears for the UK's native bee population. The invasive insect has reappeared on Jersey less than a year after they were first spotted on nearby Alderney. A colony - believed to have contained 6,000 insects - was discovered last week in a shed in Fliquet on Jersey and quickly exterminated by beekeepers. But experts now face a race against time to control the spreading...

  A Premier League football club blighted by turf-eating parasites has resorted to spraying ultra-strong GARLIC on the pitch. Crystal Palace groundsman Bruce Elliott has been spraying the pitch with garlic liquid that's 100 times more pungent than normal garlic. It smells so strong groundsmen are forced to wear Breaking Bad-style chemical suits while they treat the turf. The south London club's ground, Selhurst Park, has been blighted by parasitic worms which live around the grass roots. Elliott, Palace's head...

By Anna Power An intergenerational female friendship flick with some nice ideas at its core but like so many others panders to schmaltz in its execution, though not unenjoyably so. Octogenarian Harriet Lauler (Shirley MacLaine) lives a loveless life. Her days roll on relentlessly; her pristine home a prison of sorts and you get a disturbing sense of the vacuum around her routine of lonely meals and frustrated gazing out the window over lengthy lawns at life. Filling the void...

  Campaigners protesting against a planned incinerator have staged a rally at council offices - NAKED. Residents staged a nude protest outside Shire Hall in Gloucester in an attempt to reverse a decision on the controversial plan. The small group brandished placards outside the building on Tues in the latest episode in the long-running battle with the county council over the construction. As well as putting post it notes on the windows of the building, two protesters bared all for...

Hundreds of nearly naked protesters filled the sky with "blood" to highlight the torture of bulls in Pamplona. Ahead of the Running of the Bulls at the San Fermín festival, nearly 100 PETA and Anima Naturalis supporters gathered in the centre of Pamplona today wearing little more than fake bull horns and black underwear with the words "Stop Bullfights" painted on their bodies. The chanting protesters simultaneously broke "banderillas" containing red powdered paint above their heads, covering themselves and filling...

Specialists working at Grenfell Tower have made 87 'recoveries' of human remains in the tower - but warn that could mean more than 87 separate people. More than 250 investigators are still working at the scene, and will have to comb through over 300 tonnes of debris in the burnt-out shell of the tower to find what is left of the victims. Police say 21 people have been formally identified, but it could take until the end of the year...

A new survey into the festival preferences of the nation has revealed that nearly seven out of ten people prefer smaller music festivals to larger ones. The rise of the boutique festival is attributed to people’s desire to relax, with nearly three quarters saying that smaller festivals are more enjoyable because they are less stressful than their larger counterparts. Amongst the most popular are Beat-Herder Festival based in Lancashire, Kendal Calling in The Lake District and Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival...