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Charles Darwin turns 200 - celebrations in the UK

Charles Darwin would have been 200 today, and celebrations are taking place all over the world to celebration the 200th anniversary of the naturalists's birth. No country is taking these celebrations more seriously than the UK. Darwin Day has a list of over 650 events in 42...

National Trust UK offers food foraging holidays

The National Trust in the UK is now offering 'food foraging' holidays, where they will teach you to live off the land as an alternative to spending money in these hard economic times. People are looking to not spend...

Rewards for pregnant women who quit smoking

Despite all that we know about the effects of smoking on the unborn baby it's shocking to find that in some areas of the UK more than 20% of pregnant women smoke throughout their pregnancy.This scheme seeks to...

Park to Interrogate Adults Entering Without Children

This is quite odd, but it does somehow make sense. So their plan of attack on pedophiles is to confront any adults who enter the park without a children. Therefore they have made the Telford Town Park a park...

Kirstie Foster Did Not Die in Front of Her Computer Headmaster Reveals

The headmaster of Ellesmere College, where tragic 15 year-old Kirstie Foster was a £16,500 per year student, Brendan Wignall, has revealed that the girl was not sitting in front of her PC when she was...

Millionaire Mansion Murder: Kirstie Foster's Friends Mount Youtube Tributes

Friends of tragic murdered school girl, Kirstie Foster, 15, believed killed by her father, ruined businessman, Christopher Foster, 55, at their mansion in Shropshire, by a bullet to the back of the head and...

Bitter Sister-In-Law Speaks of "Power Mad" Christopher Foster

The sister of tragic murder victim, Jill Foster, 49,wife of dissolute businessman Christopher Foster, 55, who shot his family and pets, torched his home and killed himself, Anne Giddings, 57, has spoken out.  Mrs Giddings is aunt to the couples' tragic...

Dodgy Director Torched his Family by Flooding Mansion with Oil

"Dodgy" Businessman Christopher Foster has been named by police as the culprit of the "millionaire mansion" fires as cctv tapes show him dousing the eighteenth century mansion with accelerants. ...

Arson millionaire Christopher Foster built network of pipes to fuel blaze

The British millionaire who killed his family and burned his house down appears to have planned the crime well beforehand. Rather than it being due to a snap rage, it appears he was planning it for a long while,...

Megawaste to megawatts

Anaerobic digesters have been on the backburner essentially because of their reliance on animal slurry that has had urban communities turning their nose up at the idea even though welcoming it in principle....

Britain faces calls for UFO inquiry

The silly season has arrived. First there is a "complicated" crop circle and now soldiers are seeing UFOs."The British ministry of defence today faced calls to launch an official inquiry into a series of UFO...

Kids aged 5 & 4 love mum's milk

" THERE’S no doubt breast-feeding is best - it reduces the risk of tummy upsets, allergies, obesity and a host of health problems in later life. But mum Stella Onions believes her kids can’t get enough of a good thing. So five-year-old Josephine and her...

Hundreds of Britons hit by flood risk

"Britain was yesterday gripped by more floods as heavy rain and winds sparked chaos on roads and railways and left householders washed out again. "

Heavy Rains Continue in Britain

Heavy rainfall reportedly spurred evacuations across northern England today -- nobody seriously injured yet but some pretty dramatic moments. Reports also say that the rainfall is expected to continue. If you know...

'Spy helicopter' used at festival

Police have deployed a remote controlled drone to hover over the crowd at a UK music festival and are using it to monitor the crowd. I would like to know whether people saw this thing and what their reaction was in the moment. On some level it seems absolutely ridiculous, but...

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