A SCHOOLBOY has been hailed a "legend" after apparently forcing his school to change its school uniform policy. Joe Stratton rocked up wearing shorts on a roasting first day of term at de Stafford School in Caterham, Surrey. To his shock, the 15-year-old was told that shorts were only permitted during the summer term, and he […]

‘What am I looking at?’ Mystery mammal caught dancing in a handstand position on National Park night camera confuses wildlife fans The adorable animal was spotted shuffling about in the handstand position  It was caught on night camera in Saguaro National Park, southern Arizona The National Park Service said people are questioning what on earth […]

Airshow crash horror: Moment pilot and passenger are killed as plane spins into the ground in front of horrified spectators in Hungary The small propeller-driven aircraft was flying at the Börgönd air on Sunday Video shows it perform a rotation movement before crashing into the ground  This is the moment a plane taking part in […]

Morocco: CCTV shows moment earthquake stuck Marrakech This is the frantic moment a deadly 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit the capital of Morocco on Friday night. The quake was the strongest to hit the nation in more than a century and it is confirmed at least 2,000 have been killed and thousands more injured. Surveillance footage […]

US army chief says Ukraine has ’30 days’ of fighting weather left Ukraine has about 30 to 45 days before the weather will start to spoil its counter-offensive against Russia, the highest ranking US military chief has said. General Mark Milley told the BBC colder and wetter weather conditions will make it harder for Ukrainian […]

EXCLUSIVE ‘I saw the car wipe them out – I thought they were dead’: Husband of British mother left with life-altering injuries relives moment hire car smashed into her as they ate breakfast on holiday Harriet Moxon, 34, was having coffee in a Fuerteventura café on August 31 Her husband Luke witnessed a Brit tourist veer off […]

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On the morning of Sept. 12, 2013, Dale Rademacher departed Vance Brand Airport on a helicopter ride that he remembers as if it were yesterday. Record rainfall was about to generate flooding in Longmont, and Rademacher, who was the city’s director of Public Works and Natural Resources at the time, had a bird’s-eye view of […]

A furious mum has spoken about her anger after her daughter was one of two schoolgirls attacked by a mob of teens. Chelsea Gordon, a 14-year-old schoolgirl, and her school friend Kelsey were filmed being kicked and brutally beaten on a bus in Putney, south-west London, on August 17, in a shocking clip that was […]

APPRENTICES face a “postcode lottery” as shock new research shows they are handed wildly different amounts of cash to help train up. Trainees in Liverpool can get 50 per cent discounts on train season tickets but nothing similar is offered to those in West or South Yorkshire, according to Policy Exchange. In the West Midlands, […]