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Artist tackling environmental issues by transforming plastic bottles into quirky artwork
Veronika Richterova has been working with plastic for over a decade to create impressive sculptures out of old coke and drink bottles.
Britain’s biggest fire brigade are calling for sprinklers to be mandatory in all new schools
School fires have increased by more than a third in just one year, new figures from the London Fire Brigade show.
90-year-old man is fighting for life after being mowed down by hit-and-run moped rider
Police have appealed for witnesses after the rider fled the scene on his black bike shortly before 9pm on Monday.
Seven year-old dead in “arson” attack on family’s London home
Two women jumped to safety from the first floor as flames engulfed the property in Deptford, south east London, before fire crews arrived
People who grew up under Margaret Thatcher & John Major’s leadership “fear burglary the most”
Researchers say the political context the respondents grew up in - during the ages of 15 to 25 - is the time when people form key opinions and are most sensitive to social events
Youth worker was stabbed to death by a gang of up to six men after his car was rammed
Kwabena Nelson, 22, was stabbed to death 14 times by a group of men armed with knives and baseball bats
15 Maoists killed after bloody battle with security forces in Chhattisgarh, India
Another two were arrested in the biggest anti-Naxal operations in history of Chhattisgarh
Man makes more money selling Donald Trump LOO ROLL than from his day job
Entrepreneurial Tim Baker plans to 'make bog roll great again' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival after its popularity at Christmas
Daily Mail removes illegal immigrant article after fact check goes viral
The Daily Mail has removed an article about illegal immigration after a publicly-aired fact check went viral. Foreign features writer Andrew Malone penned the "devastating report" of 300,000 illegal migrants living in a French suburb last week, but a fact check by Marwan Muhammad disproved almost every line in it. One of the main errors was that the reporter confused Saint Denis the city with Seine Saint Denis the département - which includes 40 cities over a radius of 236 kilometres...