By Jack Granard Mesut Ozil has ended speculation about his future at the Gunners, with confirmation that he has signed a new three-and-a-half-year contract. With only a few months left till his contract was expected to run out, the 29 year old German International has become the highest-paid player in the club’s history - earning around £350,000 per week before tax. To think only a few days ago, Arsenal fans were lamenting the loss of Alexis Sanchez to a rival...

A young man who decided to take up fossil hunting made the find of a lifetime - just 15 minutes later. Archie Faiers, 21, was inspired by Sir David Attenborough after watching Attenborough and the Sea Dragon, and decided to have a hunt himself. He took his dogs for a walk along the jurassic coast and just minutes later Archie, from Uplyme, Devon, spotted an interesting rock in earth disturbed by a recent cliff fall. To his amazement, it turned...

A senior Conservative parish councillor has spoken of his horror at discovering one of his properties was being used as a massage parlour - which offered 'happy endings.' Bobby Nagpal, vice-charman of Buckhurst Hill Parish Council, in Essex, said he had 'no knowledge' his property was being used as a shop for sex services. Seedy men had even posted online reviews of the business, Relax Studio, boasting about 'happy endings', before it was shut down by authorities. Tower Hamlets council...

Arsene Wenger pulled it off! In what is perhaps the tensest transfer merry go round story of the January transfer window, Olivier Giroud's agent has arrived in London, as Borussia Dortmund confirmed the sale of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to Arsenal with a club record fee of 63.75 million euros (£56.13 million). Dortmund sporting director Michael Zorc says in a statement: "Apart from the unpleasant events of recent weeks, we remember the story of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang as a success story. "He has done great things for...

A serving police officer has today (tue) admitted sexually grooming a 15-year-old boy. Detective Constable Jonathan Davies-Brewin, 50, was snared by a vigilante paedophile hunter posing as the teenager. A court heard the senior cop arranged to meet the 'boy' following a conversation on social media. However, when he arrived for the meeting in Colchester, Essex, the boy turned out to be a vigilante adult. Today (tue), Davies-Brewin admitted one count of attempting to meet a boy under 16 years...

A tanning salon has sparked outrage after it installed anti-homeless SPRINKLERS to stop rough sleeping outside its shop. The automatic system comes on in the evening and drips water from the roof making the area unusable for rough sleepers until it shuts off in the morning. Any homeless person who decided to sleep outside the Consul tanning salon on the Horsefair in Bristol would wake up to find themselves soaking wet. Owners say the sprinklers were the least aggressive way...

In a dusty seaside town on an island off the coast of Senegal, Picasso 2 (it’s written on his hat and that’s what he says he’s called) is urging me to buy some of his artwork. “Today, it’s cheaper than Matalan!” he says out of the blue. A hit with his audience of one, he continues. “You will not find cheaper in Primani!” Some things about Cape Verde I know in advance: the all-year round warm weather, the minimal time...

A van driver on trial for ploughing into a crowd of Muslims outside Finsbury Park mosque leaving one man dead in a bid to kill as many of them as he could had earlier hoped to kill senior Labour party figures including Jeremy Corbyn, the court heard. Darren Osborne, 48, is accused of driving a hired van from Cardiff to London where he ploughed into a crowd, killing one man, 51-year-old Makram Ali, and injured others. Mr Ali had collapsed...

QuotedData has published a note on a company in the Country Specialists – Asia Pacific sector. India Capital Growth - Moving to the main board India Capital Growth (IGC) moved to the premium listing segment of the London Stock Exchange’s main market on 24 January 2018. The board considers that this market is more appropriate for a fund of IGC’s size and maturity, and provides a more suitable platform for its growth ambitions. It also believes that the move allows...