Easter eggs have already hit the shelves - over 100 days before they will be consumed
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Easter eggs have already hit the shelves - more than 100 days before they will be eaten.
The Co-op started displaying its range of chocolate eggs just two days after Christmas.
Several bemused shoppers said the rapid turnaround from the festive period to Easter products was 'ridiculous'.
The shelves in the Southwell Notts., and Cottingham, East Yorks., are among those now stacked with chocolate eggs, bunnies and chicks more than three months until Easter Sunday falls on April 12 next year.
Shopper, Charlotte Donnelly, 33, said: "It's like the shops are wishing our lives away.
"We had Christmas preparations from September onwards and now we're all just recovering from that we're being made to think about April already. It's ridiculous."
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Image by: Tom Maddick SWNS
Image by: Tom Maddick SWNS
Friendly looking Easter bunnies and chicks are being sold on lollies for just a pound and Lindt chocolate bunnies are going for £2.50.
But mum-of-two Samantha Tide, 45, thinks just after Christmas is the wrong time to be promoting them.
She said: "It's so frustrating to be met with all these new chocolates when you're in a shop with your kids.
"All they want are eggs or chocolate lollipops because you can't get away from them.
"I'm partial to a Cadburys Creme Egg myself but not in January when the diet starts. Give me until March or April and I'll definitely be off the wagon and ready to buy one."
Disturbing footage shows a carer slapping, pushing and dragging a vulnerable man in his own home
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This is the disturbing moment a carer was caught on hidden camera slapping, pushing and dragging a vulnerable man in his own home.
Footage released by police shows Pearline Baugh, 62, carrying out a catalogue of abuse on Peter Evans, 20, who has autism, epilepsy and is unable to speak.
Baugh was jailed for four months after admitting a charge of ill-treating an individual last month.
The mum-of-four was employed as a night carer after Peter began struggling to sleep and his mum Louise Evans, 41 needed extra help.
Peter was described as “prone to fits several times a day”, and in need of “a great deal of care”, while his 11-year-old brother also has autism and epilepsy as well as ADHD.
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Baugh was trusted with taking care of Peter downstairs while single mum Louise slept upstairs at the family's home in Bartley Green Birmingham.
In early 2019, Louise became suspicious Baugh was sleeping on the job and using her mobile phone too much so installed a camera in Peter’s bedroom.
But when Louise checked back over the footage, she saw the brutal treatment the carer had been subjecting Peter to.
Other recordings were said to show Baugh, of Sheldon, Birmingham pushing Peter on to his bed and bending his body in half.
Birmingham Crown Court heard when Louis confronted Naugh, she denied the accusations and was told to leave the house.
Louise handed over the video footage to officers who carried out an investigation, before Baugh was arrested and charged.
Video by: Simon Galloway
A mum who posted a two star review for a takeaway was sent a letter by the manager calling her ''pathetic'' - and saying he should have given her food to pigs
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A mum who posted a two star review for a takeaway was sent a letter by the manager calling her ''pathetic'' - and saying he should have given her food to pigs.
Aimee Casey, 27, posted a scathing write-up on a food ordering app after spending £14 on chicken and chips from Sam's Fried Chicken.
She described the food as "slimy" and claimed even her dog wouldn't eat it - to which the restaurant took great offence.
Aimee received a searing note from the manager three days after she left her review accusing her of having no morals - and banning her from eating there again.
The letter said: "Your comment on the review page is disgusting; you compared our food with dog food.
"You are a pathetic women you do not have moral value.
"If we had known you are such a low graded person we would not have served you, infect we would have donated your order to Pig farm so that Pig can enjoy the food better then you.
"Do not order from us again. We will make sure all other takeaways know of your low lifeless."
The letter is signed 'Sayd Ahmed, Manager'.
Student Aimee said: "I was shocked when I saw it; I thought it was going to be a voucher. It didn't make me feel great. It's very strongly worded.
"It was an honest review. That's what they are for - to let people know what the food is like.
"It's quite scary to think he has my address and he's sending letters like that. It wasn't nice. I've got a baby. It does make you wonder.
"I think it's a really abusive approach, and he really shouldn't be doing that. It's defamation of character.
"If the dog wouldn't eat it I wasn't going to. It was red in the middle. I won't be ordering from them again."
Aimee ordered from the takeaway, located in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, on January 6 and posted the two-star review that evening.
The text has since been deleted, although the rating is still online.
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Image by: Jon Mills
She wrote: "Awful food. Tasted like it had been brought from Iceland and dunked in a fryer for an hour!
"Really unsatisfied, and they gave me extra chips to try and hide the fact the rest of the food was bad.
"The chicken was slimy, and even my dog wouldn't eat it."
The restaurant also replied online, under the name 'Sam's Fried Chicken'. Their response is still available to view.
It said: "Thank you for taking time writing the review. You should have called the shop to complain before you write a very disgusting review.
"Please don’t order from us again. Thank you."
When approached about his comments, Mr Ahmed said: "She should have phoned us and said the food was not good enough, and we could have sorted something out instead.
"Putting a review is no problem, just don't compare the food for human consumption to dog food.
"We are Muslim, we respect our food, so these insults disrespected our religion."
Aimee, who is expecting her third child, added: "I'm not sure why he's saying that. I didn't know their religion when I ordered the food."
Sam's Fried Chicken is rated four out of six stars on the app, based on 58 reviews.
This is the heart stopping moment that a base jumper takes a leap of faith and skis off an Icy mountain.
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This is the heart-stopping moment a base jumper literally took a leap of faith - and skied off an icy mountain top.
Ex-Royal Marine Tim Howell hurtled off the slope then parasailed to make a safe landing on a frozen lake in Oeschinen Kandersteg, Switzerland.
The video, shot on January 7th 2020, also shows his good friend Maria Mcfly performing the same daring feat.
Extreme sports fanatic Tim, 28, from Martock, Somerset, said: “We set out to jump from this well photographed cliff.
"It is a very popular area for hiking and swimming in the summer.
"In winter the frozen lake is used for ice fishing and ice hockey, so new knew it would be thick enough to land on.”
“We finally found a part of the cliff that was steep enough and big enough. Landing on the lake was a really odd experience.
"We skated back to shore over big cracks in the ice.”
Video by: Tim Howell
Six-year-old girl saves mother's life after spotting she was having a stroke on a plane - caused by the take off
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A six-year-old girl saved her mother's life after she spotted she was having a stroke on a plane - caused by the take off.
Alexandra Hajipaulis, 39, was on a Ryanair flight to Crete with her daughter Jaideen when she suffered an ischemic stroke.
It is thought to have been caused by a bubble of air in a vein which travelled up to her brain when the air pressure changed during the plane's ascent.
Brave Jaideen noticed her mum was unconscious and alerted an air hostess.
Thankfully, a doctor sitting behind Alex recognised her symptoms as a stroke and ordered staff to land the plane, where she was then rushed to hospital in a coma.
Alex, from Wolverhampton, is now paralysed completely in both legs and her left arm - but is grateful that her little girl's swift actions saved her life.
Her mother Lorna Hajipaulis, 66, has moved back to the UK from Crete to care for her daughter and two grandchildren full time.
Alex said: "Jaideen saved my life - she knew something was wrong, she got me help even though she was only six years old at the time, I'm so proud of her."
Before her stroke, museum worker Alex was a happy and healthy mother of two living in Wolverhampton.
On 17 July 2018, she boarded a plane to visit her mother Lorna at her home in Crete, Greece, taking her Jaideen with her.
Halfway into the flight, Alex collapsed in her seat - leaving her six year old daughter to alert an air hostess to her unconscious mother.
The flight made an emergency stop in Italy where Alex was rushed to hospital immediately from the airport in a coma.
She underwent hemicraniectomy surgery the next day where a large flap of the skull is removed and the dura is opened to give space for the swollen brain to bulge, reducing the intracranial pressure.
The young mum was then in a coma for 10 days while Lorna travelled to Italy.
Lorna said: "I heard from Alex that she'd boarded the plane and then just a few hours later, someone rang me from the hospital to say she'd had a stroke.
"I couldn't believe what I was hearing, but before I knew it, I was on the next flight to Italy and racing to the hospital.
"We didn't know if she'd pull through, and everybody was speaking Italian and telling us it was going to cost thousands to save Alex.
"I had to reach out to relatives and even set up a GoFundMe page to raise the £25,000 needed to get Alex home to the UK.
"Alex didn't have the right kind of insurance that would cover what happened to her, and so we had to suddenly raise all this money to get her home safe."
Image by: Lorna Hajipaulis
Image by: Lorna Hajipaulis
Image by: Lorna Hajipaulis
Alex's stroke is thought to have been caused by an air embolism secondary to a bronchogenic cyst.
This is where a previously undetected lung cyst ruptures inside the body due to air pressure rapidly changing, such as in a plane or a submarine.
The rupture of the cyst causes an air embolism to travel to the brain and leads to sufferers experiencing either a stroke or a coma.
Alex spent a month in the hospital in Italy before she was repatriated to ITU at Queen Elizabeth Hospital on 13 August 2018.
Due to the nature of her stroke, Alex's flight home had to be at a lower level than normal to reduce the chances of her having another stroke.
She stayed at the hospital for six weeks before she was moved to a rehab centre in Wolverhampton in October 2018.
Lorna then moved Alex home for nine months before she was offered a place at a care home in September this year, where she remains.
"The stroke has completely changed my life - it's ruined my life," Alex said.
"I can't walk any more, I'm stuck in bed, I can't work, I miss being a mum to my girls.
"Before this happened to me, I was having two showers a day, but I haven't even had one since my stroke and that was 17 months ago.
"I was completely unconscious on the plane and then for the whole time I was in Italy so I can't remember what happened.
"I didn't even speak until six weeks after my stroke, I was completely out of it."
Lorna added: "Alex has been left feeling disabled and suicidal following her stroke and the care she has received.
"It's been 17 months since Alex had her stroke and she's deteriorating both physically and mentally rather than being on the road to recovery.
"The care homes that she has stayed at haven't had the facilities needed to wash someone of Alex's size properly, so she hasn't had a bath or shower in a year and a half.
"She's only getting under an hour of daily physiotherapy Monday to Friday where she's staying right now and it's just not enough to help get her back on her feet which is what she wants to do.
"I did pay for some private physiotherapy which was amazing, we couldn't afford to keep it going although I wish we could have.
"I just want someone to help my daughter, she's just been left to suffer after her stroke and I'm so angry to see her being reduced to living like this.
"Alex is a 40 year old woman with two daughters, she just wants to go home and be a mum to her children again and go back to work so she can be a contributing member of society, but she can't do that.
"The stroke has completely changed my daughter's life and I'm angry that she has not received the help she needs which is affecting her mental health massively.
"It seems that if you're under 40 and you have a stroke, you just get stuck in a home and forgotten about - I'm sure Alex isn't the only one to have experienced this.
"We just want someone to help her. Alex doesn't like being like this, she wants to work, she still has feeling in her legs, she just needs help.
"We are convinced that with the right physiotherapy, Alex could walk again - that's all we want to happen."
Woman who was often mistaken for being pregnant due to her growing stomach terrified to discover she had a 14lb ovarian cyst
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A young woman who was plagued with questions about being pregnant because of her rapidly-growing stomach was horrified to find she had a 14lb ovarian cyst.
Katie Holmes, 22, was baffled when she started to experience countless pregnancy symptoms - her periods stopped and she was being sick in the mornings.
Her hair even started to fall out, she could barely eat, and her tummy grew into a big bump that was hard to touch.
Countless pregnancy tests and doctors visits confirmed that she wasn't pregnant - but Katie's round stomach left people offering her seats on public transport and asking about her due date.
Antibiotics prescribed by doctors for urine infections did nothing to help and Katie was shocked when her stomach suddenly 'dropped' one evening at home.
Doctors finally found Katie had a cancerous ovarian cyst weighing 14lb - the same weight as twins.
Terrified Katie, from Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, had it removed - along with one of her ovaries.
Amazingly, she went on to fall pregnant six months later and now has a baby girl, Ava.
Katie said: "For months, I had no idea what was wrong with me. It was so frustrating not having an answer and really quite scary.
"I was in lots of pain, I couldn't pee properly and my periods had stopped.
"I'd get full after eating half a meal and my stomach was growing in size even though I wasn't gaining weight anywhere else.
"It got to the point where people were asking me my due date and offering me seats on public transport - it was mortifying.
"Doctors didn't have a clue and I was just trying to get on with life until one day my stomach just 'dropped' suddenly.
"Googling lead me to a blog that a girl had written about having an ovarian cyst, and when I suggested that to the doctor, they finally scanned me and found I was right.
"The cyst was absolutely massive. It was this huge 14lb mass so it was like I'd been carrying around the weight of twins!"
Katie from Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire was just 19 years old when she started to feel unwell whilst working a night shift at a petrol station in September 2016.
She made it through her shift but started vomiting when she returned home and kept being sick for the next few days.
Her doctor thought she could have gastroenteritis and she was sent home with tablets but when they made no difference, she kept returning to the doctors every week for two months.
All the while her stomach started to grow.
Katie said: "I still felt awful and I couldn't understand what was wrong with me.
"I went to the doctor every week throughout September and October, and they just kept sending me away with different tablets, thinking it was a stomach bug or bladder infection.
"After about three weeks, the sickness stopped but then I was plagued with headaches.
"I could only eat half a meal and then I'd feel so bloated with this horrible pain in my side.
"I got in the shower one day and felt so faint that I had to get out and lay on my bed until my head stopped spinning."
Image by: Katie Holmes
Image by: Katie Holmes
Image by: Katie Holmes
Image by: Katie Holmes
Image by: Katie Holmes
Bizarrely, many of Katie's symptoms appeared to indicate she was pregnant, despite pregnancy tests saying she wasn't.
She was vomiting in the mornings, her periods stopped, she struggled to urinate normally, and her stomach was growing rounder and more solid.
Katie's growing stomach looked so much like a baby bump members of the public often mistook her for being pregnant, despite only being a size 12.
Katie said: "I'd catch people looking at my stomach and smiling at me before asking me when I was due, which was so embarrassing.
"I'd get on the train and people would immediately stand up to offer me their seat because they thought I was pregnant.
"I was in constant pain anyway so I often accepted their seat and saved myself the awkward job of explaining there was no baby in my stomach.
"It was really confusing.
"I was barely eating because I'd get full so quickly so I wasn't gaining weight anywhere else yet my stomach continued to grow."
Katie's stomach continued to grow throughout November 2016 and her hair started to fall out in clumps - but doctors had no answer for her pain.
She was at home in December 2016 when she suddenly felt an excruciating pain in her stomach as she laid in bed.
Katie managed to get out of the bed to look in the mirror and was horrified to see that her stomach had 'dropped'.
Katie said: "I remember this agonising pain ripping through my stomach. It was the worst pain I'd ever felt.
"I looked down at my stomach as I lay in bed and felt it looked different somehow, so I dragged myself out of bed and to the mirror.
"My stomach had been solid and round for months, but looking at it that night, it was like the whole bump had dropped to a resemble a soft fat tummy hanging down.
"It was really bizarre - I'd gone from looking pregnant to looking really overweight in an evening, and it was just so confusing."
Katie googled what had happened to her and found women talking about having her symptoms and it turning out to be caused by ovarian cysts.
She took her findings to her GP and was finally sent for an ultrasound which revealed Katie was carrying a massive 14lb ovarian cyst.
Katie said: "My cyst was so big that it was covering my ovaries on the ultrasound scan, which was really scary.
"They managed to scan me at the top of my stomach and saw that my cyst had actually pushed some of my vital organs up into my ribs.
"The nurse told me that the cyst weighed 14lbs, so it was like I'd been carrying around twins - no wonder I was in pain.
"It was a relief to finally have an answer for my pain but also terrifying because there was a chance that I could have cancer.
"The doctors warned me that if my ovaries were twisted from the cyst, then they'd have to remove them so I was facing the possibility of not being able to have children as well."
Katie was booked in for a laparotomy on January 17 2017 where doctors removed the 14lb ovarian cyst as well as one of her ovaries.
Tests revealed that the cyst contained cancerous tissue, but doctors successfully removed the entire mass before the cancer could spread, leaving Katie cancer free.
Katie's health returned to normal, her periods came back a month after surgery and her stomach became flat again.
Single Katie incredibly found out she was pregnant in July 2017, and gave birth to baby Ava in April 2018.
Katie said: "The day after my surgery I was devastated to hear that they'd had to remove an ovary - I thought I might never have children.
"I hadn't been convinced I'd ever want kids before I went through all this, but there was something horrible about having that choice removed from me.
"I was focusing on getting my life back on track afterwards when I actually found out I was pregnant just six months after the surgery - for real this time!
"I was over the moon.
"I've never been happier, she's just amazing and I'm so glad my cancerous cyst didn't stop me from becoming a mum after all."
Watch moment sisters four years apart open each other’s iPhone using face recognition
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Two sisters with a four-year age gap can open each other’s iPhones using face recognition - despite looking very different.
Care workers Hanife Berisha and Eva Krasniqi might be sisters but are far from identical.
Yet despite clear differences in their appearance, 30-year-old Hanife and her younger sister Eva, 26, are able to unlock each other’s phones by just glancing at the screen.
The pair, from Orpington, London, have found a glitch in Apple’s usually water-tight Face ID technology that allows users to open their iPhone just by looking at it.
Hanife said: “We both got our phones last year but only realised recently.
"Eva held me phone and it opened out of nowhere. We tried it again and it keeps on working.
"We even tried to reset the phones but it keeps happening.
"It's really shocking that someone else can open up my phone. It means she can access bank accounts and everything.
"I think it is a security risk. The face recognition is one of the main reasons I got my phone.
"We are both quite annoyed about it. The technology is supposed to be so advanced and is not supposed to let this sort of thing happen."
Image by: Hanife Berisha
Image by: Hanife Berisha
Hanife, who was born in Kosovo and then moved to England with her family, owns an iPhone 11 while Eva has an iPhone Xs Max.
Between them they pay around £160 a month on phone contracts and purchased such advanced models for mod-cons like face recognition technology.
After the pair realised Eva could open Hanife's phone, Hanife tried the same trick with Eva's phone.
And to their surprise - it worked again.
Hanife said: "We have tried to reset the phones but it still works anyway.
"I hoped it might just be a one off but it's not, it keeps on happening whenever we try it."
Hanife is now concerned that other people could access her phone if they got their hands on it.
She said: "At first we found it a bit funny but it is quite shocking.
"I wonder if someone who has black hair and brown eyes could open my phone too. We do not look alike at all."
Video by: Hanife Berisha
Young photographer takes stunning macro photos showing the intricate world of insects- using only his phone
Image by: Sasi Kumar
These stunning close up images of insects showing the most intricate details were taken by a budding wildlife photographer - using just his phone.
Sasi Kumar hoped the stunning images would give people a glimpse into the usually hidden world of creepy crawlies around fields in Vellore, India.
One striking image appears to show a soldier ant sucking from a tiny water droplet which is clinging to a plant.
Another shows an ant dwarfed by the body of a dead spider which it is incredibly holding up above its tiny frame.
The 20-year-old university student and amateur photographer managed to take the pictures by using only his OnePlus 6t and Redmi Note 3 mobile phones.
Sasi uses macro photography- a technique which allows a photographer to take extremely close-up photographs of their subjects.
Image by: Sasi Kumar
Image by: Sasi Kumar
Image by: Sasi Kumar
Image by: Sasi Kumar
Image by: Sasi Kumar
Image by: Sasi Kumar
Image by: Sasi Kumar
Image by: Sasi Kumar
Image by: Sasi Kumar
He explained: "I use various types of lenses to capture tiny insects which provide me with a much closer magnification. All the photos are captured through my mobile phone.
"When I find an interesting subject , I clip my lens to my phone then I pan my camera slowly towards them.
"If I hurry towards them they will take off so patience is key in macro photography.
"I'm really interested in taking photographs of tiny insects and flowers, so I mostly chose to photograph ants, butterflies and horse flies."
But getting the best shot is not always a simple job in macro photography.
Sasi from India explained: "Insects aren't like humans- they won't rest in a place for more time. I have missed many beautiful shots because of heavy wind, noise and lack of stability too.
"Macro photography is unique and I want to show people these tiny undiscovered creatures.
"It also helps me to recognise small things in my real life as well. I always strive for perfection.
"I get some immense pleasure when I'm taking photographs."
He added: "I'm an amateur photographer but I have been doing photography as a passion for the past three years. I mostly enjoy doing macro photography."
Police release recording of 999 call where a woman complains about her hairdresser dying her hair orange
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Police have released a recording of a ridiculous 999 call where a woman rang to complain about her hairdresser - dying her hair ORANGE.
The woman complained how the stylist was supposed to dye her hair yellow - so she'd left without paying.
The recording was released by Devon and Cornwall Police as part of their ClickB4Ucall campaign.
They are trying to educate people on what they should be calling 999 about - and want to highlight that hairdresser disputes are not life-threatening emergencies.
In the audio, the woman can be heard telling the call handler that she is in a hairdressers and had asked for blonde highlights.
She goes on to say: "She put orange in my hair. I'm leaving her hairdresser but I'm not paying her any money because my hair is orange."
However, she is bluntly reminded of what the emergency number is for.
The call handler says: "You do not call 999 to report things like having mistakes done with your hair.
"It's obviously a civil dispute. It's not a police matter, it's a dispute between you and your hairdresser.
"You need to sort it out. I'm not listening to this call on 999 I'm afraid."
It's part of a campaign from Devon and Cornwall Police to prevent the valuable time of emergency call takers being wasted.
Video by: Ellis Wylam
Adorable pictures show a cat dubbed “catopotamus” after a shave left her resembling a hippo
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A stray cat which was dubbed “catopotamus” by the RSPCA after a close shave left her resembling a HIPPO is looking for a new home.
Animal charity staff had to shave off Holly's fur due to painful knots which developed after she lived on the streets without an owner.
Comical photos show the startled puss with most of her body shaved down to the skin leaving her "looking like a hippopotamus".
Staff at RSPCA East Norfolk are now trying to find her a home and describe her as a gentle-natured, friendly cat who would be happiest in a quiet environment.
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Her coat, once fully grown back, will need to be brushed each week to prevent it getting matted again.
She has undergone a dental and a spay check she is now ready to find a home - after spending over a month recovering at the charity's Great Yarmouth branch.
Anyone who thinks they could provide a loving home for Holly is asked to call the RSPCA's rehoming line on 07867 972870 or visit the branch.
All of the RSPCA's cats, dogs and rabbits are neutered, vaccinated, microchipped and on a flea and worm programme.
