A woman who fleeced a man she met on a dating website out of thousands of pounds to buy high end Jimmy Choo shoes has been jailed for two years. Parasitic Beverley Weetman, 34, spun a web of lies, including claiming to be terminally ill, after learning her victim had ...
Police are hunting a mindless vandal who was captured on CCTV bizarrely snapping a row of trees planted at a posh school to honour their war dead. The yob was caught violently shaking the cherry trees until they broke at one of Britain's oldest boarding schools on Friday night . ...
There's a grand old romantic comedy, released on April Fool's Day in 1958 called Teacher's Pet. In one scene, Clark Gable playing a crusty newsman named Jim Gannon growls and sneers at Doris Day's journalism professor Erica Stone about the whole idea of journalism schools. 'The only way to learn ...
Parents on an average UK salary would need to hand over 39 per cent of their earnings to pay the average annual day fee of over £13,000, new research has revealed. The total cost of private school education from Reception to Year 13 has risen to an average of £152,906 ...
By Dani Porter Half the fun of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival is in the pot-luck nature of finding shows - the joy, for example, at unexpectedly striking gold (I remain in awe of physical theatre show Giant, 12 months on). The alternative, wading through the thick wad of alphabetically-listed shows for ...
On Monday at 2:45, Hisham Al-Omeisy, a civil rights activist and documenter of Yemen’s often-ignored war, was taken from his family by armed guards loyal to the Houthis. Three years ago these people had swept into Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, and overthrown president Abed-Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s internationally recognised Government, seeking ...
FROM THE EAST END TO ETON - The brainy son of a Bangladeshi immigrant is to follow in the footsteps of Prime Ministers and Princes after 13 A grade GCSEs earned him a sixth form scholarship at Eton College. The brainy son of a Bangladeshi immigrant is to follow in ...
By Mat McCabe The glass is clearly half empty on the left, a national hero who gave his life for this country is now being judged on his failure to end the slave trade. Some may argue that this isn’t a big deal, but the truth is this situation perfectly ...
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 ...