Can you spot the hidden message in this resignation letter to Donald Trump?
Daniel Kammen included a hidden message in his resignation to Donald Trump today - but can you spot what it is? The prominent University of California, Berkeley energy professor resigned his post with the US State Department today in response to President Donald Trump’s “attacks on the core values” of the country. In the letter he said Trump's actions have "harmed the quality of life in the United States, our standing abroad, and the sustainability of the planet," adding that his failure...
NHS crisis – Wheelchair-bound pensioner with cancer no longer qualifies for free hospital transport
A wheelchair-bound pensioner with cancer faces paying thousands on taxis for hospital appointments after new NHS rules said she was 'independent'. Widow Jennifer Summers, 72, has been in a chair since polio struck aged four and free specialist transport to and from hospital after her husband died five years ago. But when she rang to book her normal lift last Friday she was told she was no longer eligible for a free ride. Instead, Jennifer had to pay nearly £100...
Campaign group launch bid to open Vagina Museum in Shoreditch
A campaign to open London's first Vagina Museum has been launched by Shoreditch based Mothership Group. The museum will be focused on vaginas, vulvas and the people who have them and will look to rival a penis museum in Iceland as one of the World's only museums dedicated to genitalia. Mothership Group is this September launching a movement to actively encourage the growth of grass roots arts and culture in Shoreditch, in a bid to stem the tide of mass artist exodus...
Yorkshire ‘human calculator’ is fighting to retain his mental arithmetic world title
A young man has been dubbed the 'human calculator' while trying to retain his title - as world mental arithmetic champion. Super-smart Chris Bryant needs no electronic help to work out incredible sums, like 7171792452/11241054, which earned him the awesome Mental Calculation World Title last year. Now, the 27-year-old brainbox is trying to retain his title ahead of this weekend's world championship. Chris, from Sheffield, is hopeful of winning a second contest which sees he take on brain-busting tasks and...
These are the new “lifestyle-focused” rental properties in Wembley Park
120 new lifestyle-focused rental properties will soon to ready to lease at the Wembley Park development - and you'll want to get your hands on them. The park is set to become the largest single-site purpose built Build to Rent development on a single site anywhere in the UK with 5,000 new homes. And now new lifestyle apartments are being launched with a red carpet perks package. The 120 rental homes in the brand new Alto building at Wembley Park...
Beer of the Week: And Union Sunday Pale
With a focus on rationality and simplicity – the basic principles of modernism – at the helm, Bavarian craft beer brand And Union was set up in 2007. The product of a father, his son and his business partner, And Union works with brew-masters from four small, family-run Bavarian regional breweries, with all of their craft beers brewed in a traditional manner, using just barley, yeast, hops, and water. As a result, the brewing process for the unfiltered and unpasteurised...
Heroic firefighters rescue litter of piglets only to have them served up as sausages
Firefighters who saved 18 baby pigs and two grown sows from a barn fire in Wiltshire have been able to "sample the fruits of their labour" after the farmer slaughtered the piglets and sent them sausages as a thank you. The crew were called to a farm at Milton Lilbourne in February after 60 tonnes of hay caught fire trapping a litter of piglets in its wake. They managed to save the animals to much appraise from the farmer, who sent them sausages...
Sir Stanley Matthews’ first professional Stoke City contracts – on £5-a-week – sold for £7,200 at auction
Sir Stanley Matthews' first professional contracts - which showed he earned £5-a-week - sold for a combined £7,200 at auction yesterday (Tues). Bidding for the football legend's 1930s Stoke City contracts - including the one he signed aged 17 - was fever pitch. 1932(L) and 1935 contracts. See SWNS story SWSTANLEY; Sir Stanley Matthews' first professional contracts - which showed he earned £5-a-week - sold for a combined £7,200 at auction yesterday (Tues). The 1932 contract showed 'The wizard of...
Virgin release Traingate footage that proves Corbyn told the truth about Traingate
Video evidence released months later by Virgin trains appears to totally prove that Jeremy Corbyn and his team were telling the truth over last summer's Traingate scandal. The Labour Party leader was filmed by freelance cameraman Yannis Mendez as he sat on the floor of a Virgin Trains East Coast train. Corbyn said the train was "ram-packed" and spoke of his policy to reverse the 1990's privatisation of Britain's railways. After Virgin Trains reacted to the controversy by releasing CCTV...