Listen – Is it now a “Hammond” not an “Abbott?” as Chancellor makes £20bn mistake
Oh dear, the Tory Chancellor has had a bad day, Theresa May didn't back him to still be Chancellor for much longer and he made a £20n error on the cost of HS2 on Radio 4. He was trying to attack the Labour manifesto, but instead made a huge error. He said their was a massive hole in Labour's spending plans, but he then forgot the cost of the controversial high speed rail linked, hate by many Shire Tory MPs....
Watch – Woman Who Went From 30 Stone To 12 is Crowned Slimming World’s ‘Greatest Loser’
A gran who was so fat she could hardly walk from her front door to the car has completed a 10km run after shedding a whopping 18 stone to be crowned Slimming World’s Greatest Loser. Tracey Topping, 47, was nearly 30 stone was struggling to walk or stand, constantly out of breath and jobless. She couldn’t even fit in the bath and was humiliated when a parent at her son’s school moved seats at a meeting, complaining he couldn’t see...
Watch – Couple’s home invaded by a…racoon!
Dad-of-one Marek Chapanionek, 44, was defrosting his freezer at around 11.30pm on Monday (15/5) night when the woodland critter entered his house. The animal then "terrorised" the account manager's property, eating a Nutri-Grain bar from the handbag of wife Caroline, 47, and terrifying two-year-old cat Dotty. Marek even called daughter Katherine, 19, who is a second-year politics student at the University of Reading, as the creature rummaged through her bedroom drawers. Eventually the unwelcome guest settled down in Dotty's cage,...
Antarctica ‘greening’ due to climate change
Plant life on Antarctica is growing rapidly due to climate change, scientists have found. Few plants live on the continent, but scientists studying moss have found a sharp increase in biological activity in the last 50 years. A team including scientists from the University of Exeter used moss bank cores – which are well preserved in Antarctica’s cold conditions – from an area spanning about 400 miles. They tested five cores from three sites and found major biological changes had...
Watch – Dashcam captures driver suddenly swerving across three lanes
This heart-stopping dashcam footage captures a reckless driver swerving across three lanes of a busy motorway to make the exit slip road. Trucker Mike James was approaching junction 11a of the M5 in Gloucestershire when a black Audi A3 overtook him in the outside lane. But seconds later it suddenly swerves left towards the southbound slip road - squeezing between two moving cars in the middle lane. The car kicks up a plume of dust on the slip road hazard...
Watch – 10yo British girl who is the best junior kickboxer in the WORLD
Meet the real life ‘Kick Ass’ – a ten-year-old British girl who is the best junior kickboxer in the WORLD. Tiah Ayton took up the martial art four years ago after her parents noticed she enjoyed play fighting with little sister. Her coaches were instantly impressed and within months she was fighting BOYS who were three years her senior just to get a fair match. Nicknamed ‘Girl On Fire’ the determined fighter trains six days a week and has already...
Watch – Controlled detonation carried out on WW2 bomb
Incredible footage of the Birmingham Second World War bomb being detonated - from a drone flying hundreds of feet above the scene. West Midlands Police released the astonishing clip, hours after a two-day drama came to an end when army experts safely blew up the 550Ib German bomb . The clip shows the potentially-deadly explosive being detonated - with huge plumes of sand and smoke flying into the skies. Meanwhile, it has been revealed the device was one of the...
Watch – Boris Johnson angers Sikhs who ban alcohol by discussing whisky in temple
Foreign secretary Boris Johnson blundered again yesterday when he talked about whisky during a visit to a Sikh temple - a religion which bans alcohol. The gaffe-prone Tory - whose wife is of Sikh descent - found himself in hot water when he went on the campaign trail in Bristol. He wore a ceremonial orange turban and joked he was pleased to have worn socks with no holes. But the mood turned sour when he addressed the congregation inside the...
The Confirmation Bubble: Social Media and the UK Election
By Mark Brill, senior lecturer in Digital Communication and Future Media at Birmingham City University Social Media has become a key battleground for political campaigning. Ahead of the upcoming UK election the main parties are putting social media at the core of their campaigns. The question is, how will all that activity impact on the final vote on June 8th? The first significant use of social media in elections was Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign in 2008. Hiring a team...