One of Britain’s longest legal disputes - a row over a tiny rural footpath which has rumbled on so long that the original claimants died - has finally been resolved. Nearly 60 years after a footpath was wrongly included on a local authority map and the family who were besieged with walkers traipsing past their front door objected to it being listed as a public right of way, the saga has finally been wrapped up in their favour. After long-drawn...

This is the face of the killer who stabbed a fellow school pupil to death and can legally be named for the first time after turning 18-years-old. Daniel Stroud was found guilty of stabbing Bailey Gwynne to death in the corridors of a high-achieving secondary school as an argument took a dark turn for the worse. Daniel Stroud while on trial for murdering Bailey Gwynne, at the High Court in Aberdeen Stroud regularly brought knives with him to Cults Academy...

A FOI request has uncovered a huge waste of public money by central government. The Huffington Post reported that Tory Minsters have spent £400k on chauffeurs just to bring their red boxes to and from work These vehicles carry no passengers just the red box that contains the ministers’ workload. Ex-PM vowed to clamp down on this exact waste of resources, but it clear not much, if anything, has been done about it. It is another example of Government waste,...

The hunger crises in Ethiopia and drought-stricken Somalia will escalate unless we invest more in addressing root causes, United Nations food agency chiefs say, Speaking at the conclusion of a four-day visit to Ethiopia the heads of the United Nations food agencies made a joint call for greater investment in long-term activities that strengthen people’s resilience to drought and the impacts of climate shocks. Back-to-back droughts have left at least 8.5 million people in Ethiopia in need of food aid. In...

There has been concern over a number of years over the amount of pesticides and other toxins used in our fruit and veg production. Now an official investigation has found that 84 per cent of fruit and veg given out to school kids have tested positive for toxic chemicals. The tests found traces of pesticide in apples, bananas, carrots, pears, satsumas, tomatoes and raisins destined for four to six-year-olds. Two million kids get free fruit every year as part of...

The 'Royal Family' has fallen on hard times, after the boss of one of Britain's lookalike modelling companies revealed nobody wants to hire Prince Charles or Camilla - or even the Duke of Edinburgh. Prince Charles and Camilla have plunged down the pecking order of royal lookalikes since Kate and Wills burst into the public eye, and have not been booked for a public appearance at all this year. And nobody has bothered booking a Prince Philip spit at all...

A real-life 'hobbit house' is set to go under the hammer. The straw bale shepherds' hut, which is built into a hillside, is located in just over an acre of land and resembles a glamping pod. The home, which offers picturesque views of Holme Valley, West Yorks., was originally built by hobby farmers as somewhere for them and their sheep to shelter. The design is based on a medieval round house and the owners had help from one of the...

It doesn’t seem five minutes since the weather reporters were getting almost excited at the prospect of warmer weather arriving to the UK for the summer; the smell of freshly cut grass, along with the busy humming of many a pollinating insect filling the air. Now, as we enter the ninth month of the calendar year, the temperature will soon plummet and the nights will begin to draw in. This is not a time to be down, quite the opposite....

Swans are being rescued using big blue IKEA bags after hundreds were donated to a refuge for suffering animals. The Secret World Wildlife Rescue centre appealed for the trademark Frakta bags on Facebook to help them carry the majestic birds. Swans rescued by Secret World in Somerset - with the help of some Ikea bags. Staff at the IKEA Reading store spotted their post and sent over 300, attaching a heart-warming letter. "It's been talked about, made into dog-ponchos, used...