A dog owner was left shocked after spotting a portrait of her pooch – on his chest. Fran Dickson had been grooming her dog Murph when she noticed an unusual marking. She took a second look at the Schnauzer-Bichon mix – noticing a marking which resembled a dog’s face and…
Our campaign for better bone health received a major boost after a minister suggested life-saving improvements to fracture services could be announced soon. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is looking at proposals to prevent thousands of broken bones and could provide funding in his Autumn Statement, Conservative minister Lord Evans of Rainow…
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is planning to slash “the most hated tax in Britain” — inheritance tax — as part of a number of “crowd-pleasing” announcements next month. Cutting the tax and then eventually abolishing it is being considered before the Conservative party conference in October. He is set to unveil a raft…
Showbusiness for ugly people… Many moons ago, Sir Arbuthnot heard a cracking tale from the Women and Equality committee’s March trip to New York, for the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The trip, as advertised on the committee’s website, was ostensibly to “highlight the deterioration of women and…
An industrial city at the centre of the rare earth minerals trade feeding global gadget desire has become so polluted it’s spawned a vast sludge filled five-mile-wide toxic lake. Day and night pipes pump dirty waste into the unnatural poisonous soup surrounding the dystopian mines and steel works of Boatou,…
It must be pretty difficult to bankrupt an entire city. Let alone one with a population of more than one million people and an annual budget of £3.2 billion. But that’s what the Labour-run Birmingham City Council has managed to do. A catalogue of bloated “vanity” projects, endless waste and…
The British man running the length of Africa because nobody has done it before has revealed he bought a baby crocodile at the side of the road and called it "Big Nige". Russell Cook, 26, from Worthing, West Sussex, decided to undertake the gargantuan journey after working a series of…
Social media users claim Ukraine media edited Zelensky’s UN speech Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has unveiled bold plans to liberate the embattled eastern city of Bakhmut while hinting at secret strategies to retake two other cities. During his second wartime visit to Washington, Zelensky told reporters: “We will de-occupy Bakhmut….
Denver’s West Highland neighborhood is an urban oasis filled with small local businesses and a blend of Craftsman bungalows, Victorians, and modern scrapes. Conveniently located near Sloan’s Lake and Edgewater, with easy access to downtown Denver, Golden, and points west, West Highland is a tight-knit community that combines a small-town…
An 18-year-old Aurora man was arrested Thursday on suspicion of second-degree murder in connection with a fatal shooting in a gas station parking lot in the 18800 block of East Hampden Avenue. Aurora police responded to a gas station in the Seven Hills neighborhood just after 6:30 p.m. Wednesday to…