The adrenaline-pumping landing at Saba in the Caribbean has won top spot in 2017 Scenic Airports poll. The tiny Caribbean island runway topped the global travel poll, with other top ten landings including Donegal, London City, Gibraltar and Queenstown. The world’s shortest commercial runway, on the Caribbean island of Saba, has topped a global travel poll of the world’s most scenic airport landings, conducted by the private jet booking service PrivateFly. With a runway just 400 metres (1,312 feet) long...

New research from the charity Mind shows that media coverage of mental health problems improves understanding and promotes help seeking, as the charity launches Mind Media Awards 2017. News reports, documentaries, celebrity interviews, soap and drama storylines about mental health have a huge impact on encouraging people to talk, show new findings released by Mind today. More than a third (35%) of people who have seen a storyline involving a character with mental health problems say it inspired them to...

A police officer has left the force after twelve years on the front line for a better paid job - as a lap dancer. Mum-of-three Hannah Havers, 35, joined the police in 2003 but the long hours and stressful shifts were leaving her exhausted and affecting her marriage. She found she had little time and energy to spend with husband Michael, also a PC, and her children Christian, 11, Harley, four and Madison, two. The pretty Thames Valley PC of...

The footage appears to show a boy picking up a stone or pebble and throwing it hard at the white pony only a few metres away behind a fence. The poor animal, called Robin, can be seen jumping in pain at the alleged unprovoked attack at Bourton Vale Equestrian Centre in Gloucestershire. The incident was recoded by an apparent friend of the attacker and put on Facebook. It soon resulted in the video spreading across multiple platforms and people have...

This is the odd moment two OAPs settled an old score with a fist fight outside a care home - before one helps the other look for his glasses. Onlookers said the pair crossed paths with one accusing the other of "ignoring him for months". The argument got heated - with the pair both setting down the carrier bags - before they squared up to each other with the fists clenched on a nearby green. A video taken by a...

This is the moment an epic car smash was caught perfectly on CCTV before the occupants of the vehicle flee from the scene - with their dog. The footage captured a red Peugeot 308 ploughing into a silver car before spinning around 180 degrees and hitting three other vehicles - writing two of them off. But the dramatic CCTV images unbelievably spotted the driver sporting red shorts running away as a woman and another man clutching a dog also fled...

Only Echoes Remain are a London-based 4-piece that blend the classic 'wall of guitar' sound of This Will Destroy You with post-metal elements a la Russian Circles/If These Trees Could Talk, the atmospheric prog-y math of Karnivool with the emotions of Sigur Ros or Yndi Halda. Debut album The Exigent is set for release on June 16th. Recorded at the Abbey Road Institute The Exigent is very much a concept record with a full narrative running throughout. ‘Aurora’ is the...

By Kate Grant, CEO of Fistula Foundation Last October in Kenya, a woman named Elizabeth bid farewell to her family and friends. She told them she would not return home until the incontinence she’d suffered for 21 years was cured. She set off to a nearby town, where a local community outreach group had organised a screening for women like her, who had symptoms of obstetric fistula, a devastating injury caused by childbirth that renders women incontinent until they can...

A Doctor Who fanatic has built two full-size Daleks - in his garden shed. Sci-fi nut Ron Munns, 57, started the first about four years ago with a wooden frame around an old mobility scooter. He added a few Christmas decorations and electrical cables and painted it black then climbed inside to drive it back and forward. He followed that with a second improved red-coloured Dalek which is remotely controlled. Read "Couple turn their garden hedge into 8ft-tall Pac-Man" Click...