Greencoat UK Wind buys North Hoyle and Slieve Divena wind farms - Greencoat UK Wind PLC has entered into agreements to acquire the North Hoyle and Slieve Divena wind farms from institutional investors advised by JP Morgan Asset Management for a total consideration of approximately GBP105 million. The acquisitions, which are expected to complete in August 2017, will be funded by Greencoat UK Wind's revolving credit facility. North Hoyle is located 5 miles offshore in Liverpool Bay, and has a capacity...

A British Sainsbury's worker cracked a US police case when he located a missing four-year-old-girl from his bedroom -- 5,000 MILES away. Harry Brown, 21, traced little Yvette Henley to a motel in Arizona by convincing her estranged father - who had fled the state - to let him order a PIZZA to his room. Yvette was reportedly staying with her father Virgil Henley, 28, when a court granted guardianship to her grandparents, Gary and Kim Forester. Yvette Henley with...

This year's Boomtown Fair queue is quickly becoming notorious for the shocking time it took for festival goes to gain entry into the site. Some revellers were waiting for a staggering seven and a half hours to gain entry into music festival site. This comes after the Winchester based festival ramped up their security searches. Security teams were searching for prohibited equipment and drugs after last year's event, when a car park fire damaged hundreds of cars. There has also...

There are these peak learning moments in all our lives that don't necessarily happen in classrooms, or from reading books, not even from sitting on your grandfather's knee while he teaches you the good rules of living. Certainly all those can all apply, yet sometimes true learning moments come out of nowhere, unexpected from their sources and as such those become the vivid ones, the ones where some important aspect of the world reveals itself with the shocking vividness of...

A bottle of one of the world's most sought after whiskies has sold for a whopping £11,450 -- more than 150 times its original price. The Black Bowmore 1964 1st edition has legendary status in the whisky world. But even specialists were astounded at the price paid for the bottle, setting what is believed to be a record auction price for this particular dram. Whisky expert, Laurie Black from auctioneers McTear's, said: "The Black Bowmore has been rising in price...

A Scottish council has once again become one of the areas with the most twins starting primary school after 13 sets enrolled this year. The children will join a remarkable 151 sets of twins who attend primary schools across Inverclyde. It is thought to be the council area with the highest number of twins in the classroom. For the past 10 years there have been - on average - 775 registered births a year in Inverclyde. Over the same period...

Elderly people are at the highest risk of falling, but now they can shout to Amazon's voice-activated service Alexa for help. It works by integrating with My SOS Family, a service which can turn any mobile phone into a personal alarm system for the vulnerable. And now it's become available on Amazon's Echo device, which triggers commands when the user activates it by saying the name 'Alexa'. This innovation has allowed anyone who suffers a fall to simply shout "Alexa, start...

A new study has revealed that as many as four in ten dog owners are feeding their dogs leftovers which could be causing a health crisis for our nation's canines - with almost 30 percent of dog owners admit to substituting dog food with human meals entirely. Researchers found that the most popular offending meal to be consumed by dogs was beef roast dinner, with 39 percent of dog owners admitting to treating their dogs to this dish. Among the...

It is a story that few will be surprised at. I was lucky enough to pay over £130 for a return to Newcastle, from London, last week. One train was so busy I had waited for the next one, as standing for three hours, and paying that much money for the privilege, just wasn’t for me. The next train wasn’t much better. Anyway, commuters have just been told, from analysis by the RMT, that the price of a rail journey...