Surprised police officers couldn't believe their luck when seven bulging bin bags full of cannabis were found dumped at the side of the road. The drugs were found by council officers on the A59 near Harrogate, North Yorks., early on Sunday morning. PC Amanda Hanusch-Moore from North Yorkshire police tweeted the pictures and said: "Lost something? "This was found in black bin bags last night on the A59 near Blubberhouses. If it's yours come and speak to us at Harrogate...

Scientific research suggests sound (music, in particular) can enhance the ways in which we perceive flavour. High-frequency sounds can enhance sweetness in food, while lower ones can accentuate bitterness. As a result, Pied a Terre – one of London’s longest-running Michelin-starred restaurants – believes music played in restaurants could be manipulated to replace unnecessary ingredients (sugar, fats, etc.), or could essentially contribute to devastating your experience. Experimenting with this theory, the restaurant is currently collaborating with BBC Manchester DJ Karen...

Buying a house is a huge investment - but two in three people don’t know if they’re purchasing a potential death trap. New research by CORGI HomePlan has uncovered a lack of safety checks being carried out by home buyers. With £1.2m property transactions taking place in the UK each year, they claim this means 800,000 homes are at risk of a life-threatening gas incident, such as a carbon monoxide leak, or expensive repairs to boilers, fires, radiators and cookers....

Families that are "just about managing" are being discriminated against by punitive and unfair tax system, new research has suggested. The Chancellor is being urged to end the discriminatory tax regime that penalises families when compared to the other OECD countries after new research being launched tomorrow in Parliament by the social policy charity Care lays bare the alarming truth about family taxation in the UK. The report, ‘The Taxation of Families – International Comparisons 2016’, reveals that the tax burden faced by one-earner married couples with...

This is the moment the heirs of a 'rags to riches' fashion empire met the real life celebrity inspiration for their dad's market stall turned global clothing superbrand. Billionaire Mahmud Kamani, 52, turned a Manchester market stall into the fashion mega brand BooHoo.com. He made his fortune when he got his designers to pour over photos of the likes of super-stylish Gigi Hadid and the Kardashians and create copy-cat outfits for a fraction of the price. The tiny team moved...

The power struggle between Iran and Saudi Arabia is causing a major human catastrophe in the Middle East after reports emerged that hundreds of Yemenis "will die within the next week" unless Saudi Arabia lifts its blockade and allows urgently needed medical supplies into the country. Yemen has become the "burden bearer" of the feud between the two Middle Eastern superpowers, with pharmacies across Sanaa struggling with a critical shortage of specialist drugs used to treat illnesses such as cancer, diabetes and...

Only six per cent of UK land is built on while five out of six people now live in towns and cities, according to a new atlas. And more than half the land is in agricultural use. The state of the art maps show England is the most urban of the home nations, yet still, only nine per cent of the land is built on. The new maps come from Professor Alasdair Rae, an academic in Sheffield University's Urban Studies...

Imagine a city that is 10 per cent cooler, 20 per cent more efficient, 30 per cent cleaner and 100 per cent friendlier than London and Toronto is what you get. In true Canadian fashion, this is a city that has extracted all the best civic qualities the UK has to offer and improved on all of them. It has culture abound, a fanatical sports scene and a bustling leisure offering amongst other things. And as the country celebrates its...

It’s said to be a place where you can do whatever you want, no matter what time of day it is. A city of dreams sandwiched amongst the scorching, endless Nevada desert. But what is the ‘big-pull’ for a place that claims to ‘have it all?’ If someone asked you to travel 11 hours for a four night getaway, you’d recoil at the thought. Especially on a 4am start, where you cradle the duvet cover, hoping for another five minutes....