Flora Steel purchased the silver brooch 35 years ago not realising it was a “historically significant” piece of jewellery dating back to the 19th Century. She contacted auctioneers after noticing the design was similar to one which appeared on the BBC’s Antiques
Aretha Franklin, whose booming vocals and powerful personal presence made her one of the great entertainers in global history, became the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on this day in history, Jan. 3, 1987. “Aretha Franklin
A woman who ran over her boyfriend in a sick ‘game of chicken’ after they got into a huge row at a party has been found guilty of his murder. Alice Wood, 23, used her Ford Fiesta as a weapon when she
Divers have been called in by police to join the urgent search for a missing pensioner who disappeared in the early hours of New Year’s Eve. A crack team of searchers have been combing through the River Tees, trying to find Gloria
A man has been applauded after he refused to swap seats with a pregnant woman on a flight. Writing on Reddit, he asked if he had behaved wrongly when he refused to give up his seat and described how he had been
A young woman has lost her life after a fire ripped through a house in Oxford this morning. The 25-year-old is yet to be named and died in hospital, after the fire broke out in the city’s suburb of Headington. Police raced
A council flat resident has blasted local authority officials after she was ordered to remove her plant pots and other garden ornaments. Lynda Vincent, 67, from Winchester in Hampshire, received high praise from her neighbours for her careful decoration of a communal
A father-of-two who died after being hit by a car while trying to help a stranger would “go to help rather than to turn away”, his family has said. Chris Marriott, 46, died after he went to the aid of a woman
A woman was spotted hilariously trying to paint over a shadow in a video which has sparked an online frenzy. The clip, posted with a simple, yet cheeky caption of “who’s going to tell her?”, has garnered close to 24 million views,
A man who paid extra for his place on a flight has been praised for refusing to swap seats with a pregnant woman who asked him to move. The passenger was approached by an expectant mum before his long-haul flight who asked