Watch: A look back at the BBC’s 1957 April Fool’s spaghetti harvest Some 68 years ago today, millions of people tuned into a BBC Panorama report about a Swiss family harvesting spaghetti from trees. It may sound implausible, but many viewers believed it. Watch the grainy black-and-white footage today and …
Read More »Teens found with stolen car and burglary tools in Rockford | News
ROCKFORD, Ill (WREX) – Rockford Police responded to a call about car burglaries early Saturday morning on Laramie Drive. When officers arrived, they found a running car that had been reported stolen earlier. Two teenagers were found nearby with burglary tools. A 17-year-old teenage boy is facing charges including Burglary …
Read More »For the new WH Smith owners, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
There are usually two types of rebrand: the complete pivot (Royal Mail to Consignia) and the barely noticeable (Channel 5 to 5). WH Smith’s retail business is about to try a third: the copycat. As part of an upcoming sell-off, the newsagent’s two businesses will split, with the travel arm …
Read More »Was Meghan Markle actually the ‘Spare’ instead of Prince Harry? After joining the Royal Family she ‘could not find her place’ in the supporting cast and instead wanted to become the ‘most loved and best-known royal’, book claims
When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle walked down the aisle in May 2018, the nation looked forward with optimism to what the pair of energetic royals would achieve. Good-looking and well spoken, the hope was that the Sussexes would connect with young people to reverse their growing sense that the …
Read More »eBay: Royal Mint rarest coins as 20p coin sells for £232
We are all being urged to check our wallets for rare coins, as they are widely sought after by collectors. Some coins are made with minting errors which make them not only rare, but also extremely valuable to the right collector. One 20p coin, minted back in 1983, was made …
Read More »eBay Simple Delivery coming to all C2C sellers
eBay are continuing to differentiate the C2C selling experience from Business Selling and having already addressed fees and buyer protections. eBay are now are about to make it faster, easier, and more secure for C2C sellers to ship items with eBay Simple Delivery. Business sellers will still have full control, …
Read More »Britain and Blodeuedd
Blodeuwedd taken from their new eight-stamp set from the Royal Mail: Royal Mail/PA Wire Dr. Shân Morgain Only 18.5% of citizens in the Cymru identified as ‘British’ (2021 census). 9% identified as ‘English’. Seems like there’s a healthy whomping majority of 73% think as Welsh ahead of being ‘British’. Yma …
Read More »Controversial Norweigan royal Shaman Durek, 50, sparks major health fears he reveals said he needs major procedure three times a week ‘just to stay alive’
Shaman Durek Verrett, the husband of Princes Martha Louise of Norway, has claimed he now has to undergo kidney dialysis three times a week ‘just to stay alive’. The American spiritualist, 50, who married into the Norweigan royal family in August, has courted controversy for his beliefs including ‘children get …
Read More »Revealed: Financial accounts from Prince Harry’s embattled charity Sentebale shed fresh light on where it all went wrong – as the bitter blame game between the Duke and the chairwoman deepens
The financial accounts from Prince Harry’s embattled charity Sentebale have shed fresh light on what went wrong for the organisation, MailOnline analysis can reveal. The documents, which must be published annually according to the UK Charity Commission’s rules, show the total income and total expenditure for each year. They show …
Read More »Newtown Post Office reopens in former Market Street butchers
The Post Office is now situated inside the former Peter Jacks Family Butchers shop in Market Street after it closed last summer. The reopening on Wednesday (March 26) marks a new chapter for Powys’ largest town’s Post Office after many decades at the Shortbridge Street shop next door to the …
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