The self-proclaimed DULLEST man in Britain has become Lord of the Bins after launching a 2026 calendar featuring piles of RUBBISH from Birmingham’s on-going BIN STRIKE.
Kevin Beresford has already sold hundreds of the riveting rubbish calendars, showing black bin bags piled high and overflowing bins around the city, where the strike has been escalating without resolution since January. His is hoping the mundane “Rats as Big as Cats” calendar will be voted the “rubbish” calendar of the year – and it has already become a surprise bestseller.
Cancer-stricken King Charles has created a “new-age” HEALING GARDEN - inspired by the scared Rose of Venus – in the grounds of his country retreat.
The 76-year-old, who once admitted to talking to his trees and is known for love of holistic therapies, has made the sanctuary at his Sandringham estate in Norfolk. The design of the new Sundial Garden is based on the Rose of Venus, which has become a symbol of sacred geometry, cosmic harmony, and the interconnectedness of all things.
An aviation photographer has launched a calendar to raise money in memory of an RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Trust Spitfire pilot who died when his plane crashed.
Claire Hartley has picked a selection of her favourite plane pictures to feature in the £16 calendar, which is raising money for the Mark Long Trust. Squadron Leader Mark Long died in May last year when Spitfire Mk IX MK356, which he was flying, crashed in a field shortly after take-off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire.
Dishy Grantchester vicar Rishi Nair appeared as an EXTRA in the very FIRST episode of ITV crime drama Grantchester – without even realising.
The 34-year-old former Hollyoaks star, who plays parish priest Alphy Kotteram, appeared in the background of a scene in Cambridge with James Norton, who played the original Grantchester vicar in series one. He is seen smartly dressed in a pale grey suit, tie and black shiny shoes, as he acted with other extras in the city scene 12 years ago in 2014.
Eco warrior King Charles has moved the helicopter landing base at his Royal Sandringham estate in Norfolk to protect his newly planted saplings.
The Monarch, 76, has created a new landing pad around ONE KILOMETRE away from the main house and gardens because helicopters were causing damage to his young trees when they landed. King Charles has been busy transforming the formal gardens and last year planted an incredible 3,000 trees around the estate, as well as another 8,000 trees in two new woodland plantations.
Euromillions jackpot winner Adrian Bayford is making extra money by creating a spectacular WINTER WONDERLAND for kids on his estate in Cambridgeshire.
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The 54-year-old is working with an events company to host a £40-a-ticket “festive spectacle” for families, with face painting, storytelling, craft making and a meeting with Father Christmas. The two-and-a-half-hour “Extraordinary Christmas Tale” events promise to take the “entire family on an unforgettable, immersive journey” and “create memories to last a lifetime.”
Notorious former hellraiser Noel Gallagher joked that he can now plays TIDDLYWINKS at the end of his Oasis gigs.
The guitarist, 58, told fans he was going home to play the game after performing at the Estadio GNP Seguros stadium in Mexico City. “This is the last song, we have to go to bed, well I do anyway,” Liam Gallagher told the crowd of 65,000 fans. Pointing at Noel and the rest of the band he added: “These lunatics will probably stay up and play cards or chess or something like that” – and Noel shouted out “Tiddlywinks.”
Middle-aged singers Oasis needed a TELEPROMPTER to remind them of the words to their hit songs at their come-back gigs in Cardiff – after a 16 YEAR hiatus.
Liam and Noel Gallagher, who are 52 and 58, have got the lyrics to their tracks on prompter screens on the stage for their reunion tour. Eagle-eyed fans spotted the screens with the song words on stage at the opening night of their 41-date tour at the Principality Stadium, where they played to a crowd of 74,000 fans.
Royal fans can now buy Queen Elizabeth II’s luxury HELICOPTER – as photos of its extravagant interior are revealed for the FIRST time.
King Charles is replacing her fleet with two new £8.5 million eco-Leonardos and his mum’s red Sikorsky helicopter is now up for sale. The 16-year-old Sikorsky helicopter S76C , which comes with a deluxe white leather VIP interior, is being sold by Aero Asset, based in Canada.
An 18-year-old has become one of Britain’s YOUNGEST landladies after taking over her local pub.
Neve Baker-Wright, has taken over the lease of The New Inn at Folkingham in Lincolnshire – just weeks after leaving school. Whilst other 18-year-olds are working out which universities to go to, Neve, who sat A-levels in sport, criminology and business studies at the Priory Ruskin Academy in Grantham just two months ago, is already running her own business.
WARNING signs have been put up around King Charles’ Royal Sandringham estate in Norfolk urging visitors to be “aware” of “high” numbers of WASPS.
The Monarch has sealed off rubbish bins and placed wasp warning signs around the grounds of his Sandringham House after the estate was plagued by swarms of wasps. Wasps are thriving in the UK this summer following the warmest and sunniest spring in more than 50 years. Visitors to the house and gardens are being told to be particularly careful near the bins, with one set of bins completely sealed off and covered in cloth because the problem is so bad.
Train journeys between London and Essex will be disrupted for the next “two to three months” due to the “wrong type of SOIL” under the tracks.
Rail bosses say trains will run slower because the CLAY soil under the c2c lines has SHRUNK following the DRIEST spring since 1974.
King Charles has launched a new range of stylish TWEED JACKETS for DOGS – costing almost £50.
The Monarch, 76, who is known for wearing tweed jackets, is now selling a special version for pooches at the shop on his Royal Sandringham estate in Norfolk. The elegant coats, which are made in Sandringham Royal Tweed with a brown collar and belt, have been made exclusively for the Royal shop. They say dogs look like their owners and now the King and Queen Camilla’s new rescue dog Moley can dress just like him.
Pop star Ed Sheeran has admitted he wrote off his first car, a £200,000 Aston Martin DB9, by driving it along a flooded road.
The Shape of You singer, who was chatting to actor Barry Keoghan on the YouTube channel GOAT Talk, said he abandoned the expensive car near his Suffolk home after flood water starting pouring inside.
Sheeran, who said it was the “worst purchase” he had ever made, said: “It was a lovely car, I was driving back from the studio and there’s a country lane to get to my house, and I was driving down it and there was this big puddle, and I was like I’ll just drive slowly through this puddle.
Liam Gallagher has been BANNED from throwing his iconic tambourine and maracas to fans at the end of his gigs – after a woman was left injured when two men mobbed her for the instrument at the end of a Wembley show.
The lead singer has been throwing his instruments into the crowd at the end of every concert after singing Champagne Supernova. But Chantal Arpino, 42, from Chesham, Bucks, was left scratched and bruised after catching the pair of tied-up maracas and getting mobbed by two men at the final Wembley show.
Fans at the Edinburgh show booed as Liam said he had been told he couldn’t throw the instruments because fans “don’t know how to behave themselves.”
Actor James Norton has been spotted on the set of ITV’s Grantchester – amid rumours all the former vicars might be reuniting for the series finale.
The 40-year-old, who played the first vicar in the Grantchester series, Sidney Chambers, was seen chatting to his former cast mates as they filmed the final ever series of the crime drama in Cambridge city centre. The Happy Valley star was spotted speaking to Robson Green, who plays DI Geordie Keating and has partnered up with each of the different vicars over the past 11 series and helped them solve the crimes.
Norton, who wore a pink baseball cap, denim shirt, white T shirt and trainers without socks, was also seen chatting with Rishi Nair, who plays the latest vicar, Alphy Kotteram, and hugging Al Weaver, who has played Leonard Finch throughout the drama series.
A McDonald’s restaurant in Manchester has become the FIRST in the UK to offer a dedicated QUIET BUSINESS area for remote workers.
The branch in Whitefield has sectioned off part of its restaurant as a quiet area for “laptop users” who are “lovin it” so much they can now use it as an office. Mobile workers over 16 can now SUPERSIZE their McDonald’s experience on weekdays by working in the dedicated quiet area – which even offers additional power sockets under the seats
Eagle-eyed fans have spotted Ed Sheeran’s WIFE in his new “A Little More” music video – playing a THERAPIST.
Cherry Seaborn, appears in a scene near the start of the video which shows Rupert Grint’s character, as an obsessed Sheeran fan, talking to a therapist after being released from prison.
Eco-conscious King Charles has finally linked his new SOLAR FARM in Norfolk to his Royal Sandringham House 10 MONTHS after starting the project.
The Monarch started building the huge solar farm with 2,000 panels on a former horse grazing paddock behind the house last October – now it has been connected up to the Royal estate. It means he can make the most of the current heatwave in England to ensure his estate is completely powered by the SUN. The panels have been placed across 2.3 hectares of land, providing a combined total of 2.1MW of energy, which is now being used by the 20,000 acre estate – with a small amount of additional capacity exported to the grid.
The RAF base set to house Britain’s new F-35 stealth jets which can carry nuclear warheads is STILL only secured by a FIVE FOOT wooden picket fence - SEVEN YEARS after it was first reported.
A section of fencing at RAF Marham in Norfolk at the end of the runway allows extremely easy access to the UK’s multi-million pound defence force, which will soon include the F-35 planes.
Most of RAF Marham is surrounded by six-metre high barbed wire fence, but a section at the end of the runway is only guarded by a low wooden fence, which could easily be jumped over.
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