Richard Branson’s old house complete with underground squash court sells for almost £55 MILLION
The Grade II listed stucco-fronted property used to belong to Sir Richard Branson and is near the Beckhams’ home in upmarket Holland Park. Branson sold it for around £17.5 million a decade ago and, at the time, it was described as being in a “very poor state of repair” having been “neglected” for a number of years.
Twin sisters defy odds on a million-to-one to give birth just hours apart
Tina Hammond and Louise Huckerby, 23, fell pregnant at the same time and had been due to have their newborns five days apart on April 10 and 15. But after Tina went into an early labour on March 21, she was stunned to find out her sister had been wheeled onto the same ward a few hours later.
Man finds doppelgänger living in America – and they even share the same NAME
Lookalikes Billy Wright, 23, and Billy Wright, 25, live on opposite sides of the pond but have everything else in common. They met by chance over Facebook after a man met the America Billy in a bar but tried to contact the UK Billy Wright by accident.
Bristol Zoo’s baby gorilla heads outside for the first time
These adorable photos show the moment the first baby gorilla born by c-section emerged outside – still wrapped in her keeper’s fleece. The seven-week-old Western lowland gorilla Afia appeared blinking into the sun, huddled inside her carer’s sling.
Adorable photos show cute babies riding camels, fighting octopus’ and plundering the seas as pirates
Professional photographer Neli Prahova, 35, decided to think outside the box and give her clients a baby shoot to remember. In the shoots Neli, of London, recreated famous scenes from Arabian cartoon and folklore.
Dangerous new craze, the ‘Iron Liver Challenge’, sees people down entire bottles of spirits, including man who drank a litre of vodka in under a minute
Andi Doherty, better known as Skat Dagger, is part of a group filmed the latest ‘Iron Liver Challenge’ – downing a potentially deadly 40 units of Smirnoff in less than 60 seconds. The 29-year-old father, who is covered from head to toe in tattoos and piercings, put his stunt on YouTube and has had over 2,000 hits.
Schoolgirl battered and stamped on in the street by girls who filmed brutal attack and posted it on Facebook
Bethany Gallimore was set upon by the girl yobs as she walked through a town centre to meet her parents on Sunday evening (27/3). The schoolgirl had got off the phone to her mum just minutes before a group of around 14 youths surrounded her and started shouting vile abuse.
Lewis Hamilton’s podium in Australia adds to superb story of British success in F1
With Hamilton bidding to become the first four-time British World Champion this season global heat map charts the history of every British podium in F1
Young Saudi billionaire arrives in London with four amazing gold cars worth more than £1 million
The super-rich young Saudi recently jetted into the UK with a number of friends. But instead of taking the Tube or taxis, he has also flown in a number of outlandish cars for travelling around the capital.
The Duke of York is to launch his digital incubator into Eastern Europe at a technology conference in Estonia
Since then it has helped more than 200 businesses get off the ground and is now expanding its reach to other parts of Europ. Estonia has emerged as one of the world’s digital leaders, with the highest number of start-ups per head in the world. A TechLink initiative was established with Britain last November to…
UK consumers turn to mobile data as texting decreases by 48 billion messages
The rise of mobile messaging apps, such as WhatsApp, Snapchat and Facebook Messenger, is leading to the slow death of the text message. Data analysis commissioned by insurance provider Row shows that the use of text and picture messages has fallen by almost a third since its peak in 2011.
How to win by a chance or the story of the first million
Getting rich without any effort seems to be the greatest dream of the whole mankind.
Man decided to dodge £45 baggage charge at Gatwick by putting on ALL his clothes
Matt Botten, 32, spent about an hour putting on all his warm winter clothes before checking in on a flight to Iceland because he was told his hand luggage was too big for the cabin. Matt, from Cardiff, said that despite the ‘one hour embarrassment of looking like the Michelin man’, it was worth it.
Three Cheers for Free Oil & Gas Training…
Since the Oil and Gas downturn just over a year ago there has been very little to cheer about until now. In the space of just over a month, the industry has witnessed two significant initiatives both designed to make valuable training freely available, as a key step towards investing in tomorrow’s oil field professional….
World’s Greatest Elvis tours the UK with original Elvis band members
Direct from the USA – the world’s most successful Elvis tribute artist of all time, Shawn Klush, is touring the UK this March/April 2016 in an incredible show featuring members of Presley’s original band. The show is appearing in Bournemouth (31 March), Watford (1 April), High Wycombe (3 April), Swansea (4 April), Bromley (6 April-Sold out), Liverpool…
Disabled teen left to lie on freezing cold hospital floor for 12 hours
Apprentice beautician, Abigail Cooper, was taken to hospital by her mother as her feeding tube became dislodged after severe vomiting. The 19-year-old suffers from Gastroparesis, which is a condition that has paralysed her stomach.
Can Many Clouds be the next Red Rum?
When Many Clouds won the 2015 Grand National in such impressive style, it came as a bit of a shock to the students of Grand National form through the years due to the weight he was carrying.
