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A rare cancer-busting mineral which has only ever been found in space has been discovered growing on plants - in the UK. The mineral, called vaterite, has so far only been traced on a few sea creatures, rocks and meteorites from outer space. But it has now appeared on alpine plants - part of a collection called European Saxifraga - at Cambridge's Botanic Garden. The incredible discovery could be groundbreaking for cancer sufferers as the substance has special properties that...

A council have launched a crackdown on homeowners that dump rubbish outside their homes - by threatening them with huge fines. Greenwich Council have released images of two households that let rubbish pile up so high in their front gardens the windows were blocked. Both houses which saw the small gardens overflowing with rubbish were in the same London borough. The rubbish was piled so high residents could barely see the windows of the ground floor. After receiving complaints from...

New research has unearthed a series of shocking stories of London business owners who have been forced out of their premises because of spiralling rents, with one committing suicide after a 200 per cent rent increase. 230 small businesses have united to call on London politicians to join them in confronting the capital’s affordable workspace crisis. Members of the East End Trades Guild will meet the Hackney and Tower Hamlets mayors on Tuesday and ask them to commit to their agenda​....

Donald Trump boasted that he received 52 per cent of the female vote in the 2016 election even though he was running against a woman last night. The claims, which we aired during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, have quickly been marked as false - with people quick to point out that the stat is based on the number of white women who voted. According to Washington Post the exit poll shows he got only 41 per cent of the...

A second 1066 invasion is set to go ahead after a delegation from Normandy plans to descend on Bristol in a bid to poach businesses opposed to Brexit The French special envoy will arrive in Bristol next week with a large bus brandishing a faux-classified advert stating: “Hot Entrepreneur Wanted. Someone allergic to post-Brexit tariffs, legislation and restrictions preferred”. It is part of a campaign which will also run mocked-up front page stories on several national newspapers including The Times,...

An eco-friendly woman is so green she doesn't even own a bin - and fits all her monthly waste into a JAM JAR. Canny Adele Morgan, 23, recycles virtually everything and generates hardly any rubbish. She turns all her food into compost, makes her own toothpaste, cleans her home with vinegar and orange peels and uses pillow cases as shopping bags. Adele uses coconut oil as a moisturizer and make-up remover and her toothbrush is made of bamboo. The brush...

A woman sparked debate after criticising children who used her household bin to throw away rubbish. Posting on a Facebook group, the woman said: “Bins outside someone’s front door are not public bins.” But other social media users hit back and said the children should be praised for using bins rather than dropping litter. The woman wrote: "Just a reminder. Bins outside someone’s front door are not public bins. “Allowing your child to put their rubbish in our bin is...

Vince Cable has thrown himself, and his party even deeper into the Brexit argument during a speech over the weekend The Lib Dem leader was speaking to crowds at his party’s spring conference yesterday. Cable slammed Brexit and the outcome of the EU referendum, claiming that the vote has started a “non-violent civil war” and that young people were going to feel the effects of the referendum for years to come. Cable said: "Too many were driven by a nostalgia...

Joy Smith says she won £84,000 after entering a Loose Women TV competition while stoned in bed