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.

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.

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.

“Rio absolutely loves showing off, so he really enjoyed the shoot,” said mum Kim Williams, from Bath.

Just 24 hours after he was born, Rio had to have surgery as his bowel had perforated, and it was then that mum Kim found out he had Down syndrome.

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.

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.”

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.