What could have been a tragic end of life to an elderly woman, ended positively, after an observant woman noticed her regular customer was missing. Doreen Mann, 87, had been stuck in her bath for four days and only stayed alive by topping up the tub with the hot water ...
By Professor Antonios Tsourdos, Head of the Autonomous and Cyber-Physical Systems Centre, Cranfield University A new House of Lords select committee inquiry is looking at how the smart technology around driverless cars and drones can evolve into a smart, autonomous transport system for the UK. The economic benefits from a ...
This is the heartwarming moment a young elephant plunges into a fast-flowing river to RESCUE her ”drowning” human best friend. Darrick Thomson, 42, jumped into the swollen 50ft wide river while five-year-old Asian elephant Kham Lha walked on the bank in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The pair had formed an ”inseparable bond” ...
A hiker decided to do the three peak challenge, a gruelling 50 miles across rough terrain and as you can imagine, three tall peaks. So far, nothing out of the ordinary, but this guy did it with a fridge full of beer on his back. Matthew Bamber, 42 somehow got ...
In a move that would see the prison population swell to an unimaginable size, a Tory councillor has taken it upon himself to start a petition calling for those who disagree with Brexit should be charged with treason. Aside from the fact that 48 per cent of the voters didn’t ...
The truism ‘prevention is better than cure’ has become a lost relic in austerity-hit Britain. The cost of applying a plaster to crisis situations is more appealing in its simplicity than precluding societal ills, and thus we waste billions of pounds funding late institutional responses such as hospitals, prisons and ...
There are very few people, it seems, with much good to say about Presidential candidate Donald Trump at the moment. It appears to be getting worse by the day for the billionaire, as a number of women have come forward and accused him of being sexually inappropriate with them, however ...
A senior city worker is facing a jail term after sexually assaulting two women at the company’s main office, during drinking sessions described as “Wolf of Wall Street-style.” Anthony Constantinou, head of financial group Capital World Markets (CWM), treated one of his victims "like a piece of meat". The 34-year-old ...
It is widely accepted that there is a housing crisis in the UK, whether you can’t afford to get on the property ladder, apply for a mortgage, live in poor local authority properties or paying sky-high rents for poor quality dwellings. It seems that everyone you speak to has a ...