Free Bournemouth Air Festival 19th – 21st August 2011 Live Stream

  20th August 2011 Flight Lieutenant Jon Egging a Red Arrows pilot was killed on Saturday afternoon when his Hawk T1 aircraft plunged to the ground near Bournemouth Airport in Dorset. Onlookers reported...

Mister Sixties Philip Townsend's Portraits of a Decade

Between 1960 and 1969 Philip Townsend worked as a photographer for many leading magazines and newspapers both in the UK and abroad. While other photographers took portraits, often closely cropped, Townsend widened his frame to include backgrounds, landscapes and a sheer...

Clegg defeats rebels over LibDem tax plans in UK

Following Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg's announcement that the British political party would take a turn to the right and announce a plan to lower taxes, Many in the party are unhappy with Clegg's decision to bring it to the right, But Clegg has survived a grilling in a...

Clegg faces party showdown over tax in UK

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, who has recently unveiled a plan to take his party further to the right in a bid to gain mainstream appeal, will be facing harsh criticism at his party's upcoming conference....

Making waves in Boscombe

BOSCOMBE, DORSET - Construction has begun on Europe's first artificial surf reef, 225 meters off the Dorset coast at Boscombe.  This will be only the fourth such structure in the world and is the...

McDonald's apologises after group of mothers staged sit-in over breast-feedin...

A McDonald's manager in the UK has been forced to apologize to a young mum whom he told could not breastfeed in the fast-food chain.She returned with five friends and they staged a 'sit-in' and all started...

Get ready for Spacebook

"You've joined Facebook, MySpace and Bebo and have more than 3,000 friends but something's still missing. What you really want is to catch up with your mates from the cult World Of Warcraft game and now you can with Avatars United, the newest social networking site."My...

Hipster traveling tips from The Strokes, Sonic Youth, the Stars and more

Oddly, a slew of indie bands have contributed material to a new travel guide. I'm guessing it will probably garner the usual ruckus from the indie sellout police, but I bet it'd be interesting. Who wouldn't want to know where Thurston Moore changes his dollars into...

Stealth Pool Parties: Run SIlent, Run Deep

Pool parties organized online and held in strangers' pools. ... Whoah. I've used Google Earth to find optimal parking spots downtown (just look for bikes in the aerial photos), but this is next-level.As a teen,...

'Snail mail' blazes slow e-trail

"Muriel, Austin and Cecil are snails for the electronic age. The gastropods have been fitted with equipment to allow them to send e-mails on behalf of visitors to a website. Instead of instantaneous...

Police uncover body in suitcase

"A body buried in a suitcase has been uncovered by detectives searching for a missing 62-year-old man.The buried suitcase was uncovered on Saturday by police near a footpath linking Throop Road with Cheshire Drive in Bournemouth, police said.They believe the body is that of...

The mystery of Stonehenge may be solved

Archaeologists say they may have discovered a layer underneath ancient Stonehenge that may explain why the site was built.If this is true, it will be one of the greatest mysteries ever solved."The team has reached...

Will Stonehenge dig unravel mysteries?

Certainly a dig with the world watching for clues of one of the 7 wonders of the World to unravel. "LONDON - Some of England's most sacred soil is being disturbed for the first time in more than four...

Stonehenge dig begins

Some potentially fascinating investigations are beginning in England that may finally shed light on the creation of Stonehenge and provide clues about when the monument was created. "The first excavation inside...

Student eats key 'so he can keep partying'

"In the hunt for lost keys most people check under the sofa, in their jacket pocket and even back at the pub. But student Chris Foster had to have his stomach x-rayed before he could find where he left his keys...

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