Bride-to-be loses tooth days before destination wedding thanks to pizza order
A bride’s love for ‘crispy’ pizza nearly ruined her dream wedding when her front tooth fell out after biting into…
Blossoming among spoil heaps: how 1,000 years of lead mining gave birth to banks of pansies and pennycress
A mountain pansy at Briarwood Banks, one of the increasingly rare calaminarian grasslands in Northumberland. These ‘metallophyte’ plants have adapted…
Golders Green fire live: Blaze at Jewish supermarket with ‘shut windows’ alert
A massive fire has erupted at a three-storey building in Golders Green, North London. The London Fire Brigade is advising…
UK nurses and midwives who should have been banned have worked for last 12 years
The Royal College of Nursing called the error a ‘potentially dangerous regulatory failure’. Photograph: Jeff Moore/PAView image in fullscreenThe Royal…
‘It’s getting hotter and it’s not stopping’: dealing with the heat in five of Europe’s capitals
A man shelters beneath the shade of an umbrella or parasol as he crosses the Puerta del Sol square in…
Nearly in one in five UK girls receive unwanted images online, poll finds
A quarter of all those surveyed, between the ages of 13 and 20, said they had seen a nude photo…
Expert tips on packing smarter for stress-free staycations
Brits are guilty of cramming in as much as possible when heading off on holiday – yet still manage to…
Top 10 inappropriate places Brits secretly check football scores – cinemas and weddings
A survey of 2,000 sports fans revealed more than a quarter have discreetly watched a match in an inappropriate environment,…
UK households told to only half-fill paddling pools this week
A water company has come under fire for telling Britons in the middle of a record-breaking heatwave to use less…
‘Planetary destruction on fast-forward’: witnessing the disappearance of Indonesia’s ‘eternity glaciers’
Puncak Jaya glacier ‘Planetary destruction on fast-forward’: witnessing the disappearance of Indonesia’s ‘eternity glaciers’ Researchers racing to document Oceania’s last…