Eco warrior King Charles has been spotted in his brand NEW £170,000 electric BMW for the first time - as he continues to swap his Royal fleet of vehicles for GREEN alternatives.
The Monarch, 76, was seen arriving at his Royal Sandringham estate in Norfolk in the back of his top-of-the-range black BMW i7 M70 xDrive. The eco-conscious King bought the car in February and used it to be chauffeured to the Sunday service at St Mary Magdalene Church. It is the latest green car to be added to the King’s fleet of electric vehicles after he fitted charging points at his Royal households.
Residents have slammed a council for building a £50 MILLION “bridge to nowhere” after they ran out of MONEY to make the connecting road.
The bridge over the planned Spalding Western Relief Road in Lincolnshire was constructed between 2022 and 2024 but it will not be finished until at least 2030 because the county council cannot afford to complete the project. The bridge was built as part of a £110 million project to provide a new route, the Western Relief Road, around the west side of Spalding to ease traffic on the A16, which sees lots of lorries driving between Peterborough, Boston and Grimsby.
World renowned physicist Stephen Hawking was a “big TITS guy” – according to his friend, comedian Jimmy Carr.
Carr, who got to know Hawking while he studied at Cambridge University, said: “You might know him best as a physicist but he was a bloke,” after admitting they often talked about TITS. I like Stephen Hawking, "I became friends with him later on. We used to go out a lot and it was fun,” he said in a recent show Q&A which he posted on his YouTube channel this week. "If you want to know what I talked to Stephen about, we were friends … tits. He was a big tits guy."
More than 80 former PAPERBOYS and GIRLS, including several who delivered newspapers 75 YEARS ago in the 1950s, attended a reunion for a retiring newsagent.
Family-run newsagents, Burrows, which has served the city of Ely in Cambridgeshire for 125 YEARS, and opened when Queen Victoria was still alive, is closing its doors this week.
Jeff Burrows, 76, who is the third generation of his family to run Burrows Newsagents, and started serving behind the counter when he was just eight, is retiring after running the shop for 60 years.
A little boy with Down syndrome is modelling for iconic British fashion brand Burberry.
Seven-year-old Rio Williams has broken boundaries after appearing in its summer childrenswear campaign. The inspirational schoolboy was photographed wearing £220 cotton shorts, a £260 check cashmere scarf and a £950 trench coat in the pictures which appear on Burberry’s website. Rio can also be seen on a blue rocking horse in a short video for the campaign, which was shot in London earlier this year.
An ICE CREAM WAR has kicked off in a small market town in Cambridgeshire after a seller was booted out of the park where he has been selling cones for 15 YEARS.
Frank Cannata, who runs Frank’s Ices, was asked to leave Wisbech Park, owned by Fenland District Council, after new tenants took over the café – and installed an ice cream machine. The 67-year-old, whose dad set up the business in 1957, and has hundreds of loyal customers, is now giving away FREE ice cream to customers every Saturday from a road next to the park.
A pretty market town in Cambridgeshire still has its CHRISTMAS LIGHTS up in APRIL as temperatures hit 29C - because residents can’t afford to take them down.
Ramsey still has streams of unlit fairy lights and Christmas tree decorations hanging from buildings and lampposts in its main street more than FOUR MONTHS after the festive period finished. A large golden crown hangs on the side of the Town Council office, there are shooting star lights on the lampposts and a large Merry Christmas light-up sign on the library.
One of the UK’s LARGEST and OLDEST London plane trees, which towers at 42-metres high in Ely, Cambs – and is almost on a level with the roof of the nearby iconic Cathedral - will be safeguarded for the future using a new technique which has not been used in Britain before.
The tree is believed to have been given to the Bishop of Ely for his palace garden, which is now part of King's private school, in Ely, by Charles II around 1674. Now a £121,00 National Lottery grant – the first allocated to an individual tree - will fund innovative bracing and pruning work to be carried out by Italian and UK experts using “morphophysiology.”
Cash-strapped Brits are trading in “unprecedented” amounts of gold – including their GOLD TEETH – to cope with the cost of living crisis.
Gold Traders, based in Wiltshire, has people “queuing out the door” to get cash for their gold as they struggle to make ends meet – and receives around TWELVE bags of GOLD TEETH a WEEK.
Jon White, director of Gold Traders, said the company is buying £100,00 worth of gold a day, with a “record high” number of customers currently coming to his shop in Royal Wootton Bassett.
Furious locals on Brit holiday island favourite Ibiza have blocked access to the iconic Es Vedra viewpoint, which has become an Instagram hotspot, in a bid to protect the site from mass tourism.
The uninhabited islet, Es Vedra, has become a viral sensation for its stunning sunsets and the surrounding viewpoints attract thousands of holidaymakers every summer.
Buyers interested in the family home where Captain Sir Tom Moore raised millions for NHS charities during the pandemic are being told they can SWIM in the POND – after the property’s controversial spa was torn down last year.
The Old Rectory in Marston Moretaine, in Bedfordshire, was originally put up for sale last April after Sir Tom’s daughter, Hannah Ingram-Moore, and her husband, Colin were told to bulldoze the £200,000 spa complex.
A 15th century church on King Charles’ Royal Sandringham estate in Norfolk has been CLOSED to the public “on safety grounds” after plaster fell from a wall and ceiling damaging the organ.
St Mary the Virgin church in the village of Hillington is usually attended by the King during the winter, but now all church services, including Easter Day, have been “suspended” indefinitely following “two separate incidents.”
Britain’s brightest students at Cambridge University are being told how to WALK DOWN STAIRS in new health and safety posters.
The face of DONALD TRUMP has been spotted in a WAVE off the coast of England.
The new US President is kicking up a storm in America and now his famous profile has been seen in a huge wave at Seaham in County Durham.
Drivers were shocked to see a pair of LEGS sticking out of a huge three-foot wide POTHOLE near a village in Cambridgeshire.
But it was all part of a stunt by local resident James Coxall, who was so fed up with the giant crater, which has been there for eight months, that he decided to have a bit of fun. James Coxall, 41, placed the comedy legs in the pothole puddle on Haverhill Road near Castle Camps in Cambridgeshire to alert drivers to the danger.
A woman will struggle to fit all her guests in the house this Christmas because she is sharing her home with a WATER BUFFALO.
Molly Ruder, operations manager at Watatunga wildlife reserve in Norfolk, has been hand rearing one-month-old calf Winnie since she was rejected by her mum hours after birth. The adorable baby buffalo was originally l
A man has surprised his neighbours by placing a full-size SPITFIRE in his garden in Norfolk.
Aviation enthusiast Ian Fox, 55, has a huge fibreglass replica of the iconic World War Two fighter plane, which is 30ft long and 36ft wide, parked on his lawn near Downham Market. The hollow model of a Spitfire MK IX was originally on display at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, Cambridgeshire, where it was used for re-enactments, but it was damaged in a storm and later moved to the Fenland Aviation Museum.
King Charles is serving up his wife’s favourite winter breakfast to visitors at his Royal Sandringham estate in Norfolk – PORRIDGE with homemade HONEY.
The Monarch is selling steamy bowls of good old-fashioned porridge at the estate’s restaurant, after Queen Camilla’s son, Tom Parker Bowles, recently revealed it was her go-to on winter mornings.
King Charles is hoping for a ROYAL FLUSH after his posh TOILETS were put forward for the Loo of the Year award.
The Royal restrooms at the visitor centre on his Sandringham estate in Norfolk have been given “platinum” status and entered into the National Awards.
Euromillions jackpot winner Adrian Bayford wants to create a huge kids “education and nature” park on his 189-acre estate in Cambridgeshire – complete with a miniature train ride, pond dipping and a maze.
The 53-year-old has submitted plans to transform 20 ACRES of his privately-owned estate into a new “leisure destination” which would provide “a fun, exciting and educational day out.”
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