A D-Day hero yesterday became the world’s oldest tandem skydiver – aged 101 and 37 days. Daredevil Verdun Hayes leapt from a plane at 15,000ft to glide into the record books. The great-granddad jumped with ten other people, including three generations of his family and the doctor who signed him off. He stole the world title after knocking Canadian Armand Gendreau, who was 101 and three days when he jumped in 2013, off the top spot. The sprightly centenarian, of...

With the hospitality industry having never faced a worse staff shortage, with warnings of a 60,000 shortfall of workers a year, M Restaurants Executive Chef Michael Reid and Bookatable by Michelin have partnered for a unique event to encourage young talent working in the UK restaurant industry. An annual competition which aims to nurture tomorrow’s top chefs, the winner will be given the chance to host a ten-day pop-up restaurant at the Bookatable Young Chef Take Over at M Victoria...

By Tom Moore Fears over a second Ransomware attack on Monday morning have come to nothing after it received a letter over the weekend asking it to come back in four months. NHS chiefs were said to be fearful of fresh disruption as staff turn their computers on Monday morning but experts believe the virus failed to gain access to the network as most staff don’t turn their computers on until 11/11.30. By this point it is believed the cyber-attack...

By James McAllister “Our system is rotten. It doesn’t reward honest politicians who vote with their conscious; it rewards rats, who are willing to sell out their country to keep their noses in the trough.” Miss Sloane may have been made back in early 2016, when the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency was more an outlandish nightmare than a chilling reality, but some 15 months on, its release could not be timelier. In a new era of ignorance, here...

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” -  Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It Scientific research has shown that people who travel a lot benefit from their travels in more than one way. In a nutshell, it has been proven that travelling adventures can change...

Emily Thornberry accused Michael Fallon of talking 'boll..." and just about manages to mouth the rest of the rude word on Sunday morning live TV. Then she quickly managed to change what she was going to say and instead said  "that is untrue!" after Fallon claims Labour is planning to renegotiate the future of the Falklands, which Argentina claims should be their territory.  Thornberry was annoyed when Fallon accused Jeremy Corbyn of "openly" supporting the IRA 30 years ago. However...

A pet owner says she owes her life to her beloved pooch when she went to the doctors after falling over the dog and found out she had cancer. Pat Lacey, 73, had not visited her doctors for almost a year when she was tripped over by Staffordshire bull terrier Ice in her kitchen. The former civil servant went to her GP after feeling her hand start to swell up following the fall on January 17 last year. Doctors found...

Fascinating photos have caught baby owls looking awestruck as they experience the world for the first time. The photos were taken at The Scottish Owl Centre in West Lothian. They show a four-week-old American Barn Owl, six-week Long Eared Owl, five-week Ural Owl, three-week Pharaoh Owl and five-week-old Tawny Owl. Within the next couple of weeks, all of these owls will leave their West Lothian home to take up a crucial role as owl ambassadors across Scotland. They will go...

This is the shocking moment a council bin man trashes a homeless man's possessions while his back is turned. The rough sleeper had set up 'home' on the streets of Cambridge but after moving from his spot, refuse collectors were quick to bundle away his possessions. He said: “I had the only three photographs of my son which I own which they dumped. It is just shocking. He died three weeks ago in a car crash. He was in care because...