Wheelie bins could soon be a thing of the past after a new district installed UNDERGROUND bins for residents.

Council workers have now begun collecting rubbish from the new system, which is the BIGGEST of its kind in the UK, which features steel bin chutes set into the pavement, feeding into large underground chambers. .

A sensor notifies the council when it is full and a specialist lorry hoists the container out of the ground with a crane and empties the waste into the vehicle..

THE DAD of missing airman Corrie McKeague blockaded the entrance to a rubbish tip where his son is believed to be buried after police ended their investigation at the site.

Martin McKeague used his camper van to block the entrance to the landfill site at Milton, Cambs, in a desperate effort to get police to change their mind over stopping the search.

Officers from Suffolk and Norfolk police have spent 20 weeks sifting through 6,500 tonnes of waste at the tip but they said they have now completed the search of the area where they know waste was deposited in that period. Officers officially ended the search on Friday afternoon - 10 months after his disappearance.

Internet inventor Colin Furze has made a bicycle which can fire an incredible 1,000 ROCKETS – all at the same time.

The 37-year-old former plumber spent two days building the bike, which allows him to launch the rocket fireworks by pushing a button on the handle bars.

Colin came up with the idea to celebrate getting five million followers on his YouTube site and tested it out on private land near his home in Lincolnshire.

A re-creation of the world’s FIRST playground slide – built 96 YEARS ago from a plank of wood with NO sides – has been unveiled.

The primitive piece of play equipment was originally constructed in 1921 in Wicksteed Park in Kettering, Northamptonshire – the first public park in the UK.

It was designed by owner Charles Wicksteed, who initially made slides for his park as part of his vision to inspire and encourage play, then went on to manufacture and sell them around the world.

Rock legend Phil Collins sung on stage in London – two weeks after a bad fall forced him to postpone two concerts at the Royal Albert Hall.

The 66-year-old had to use a golf buggy to get to the stage for his performance at Hyde Park, which came just weeks after he suffered a severe gash to his head after a fall in his hotel room.

Collins, who was headlining the show at the Barclaycard British Summer Time festival’s opening night, then sat down throughout the concert.

A zoo has been evacuated after ambulance crews and the air ambulance attended a “serious incident”.

Cambridgeshire Police have confirmed they were called at 11.15am to reports of a serious incident at Hamerton Zoo Park in Steeple Gidding, Cambridgeshire. Officers attended the scene with ambulance crews and MAGPAS.

A spokesman for Cambridgeshire Police said: “We are unable further information available at this time, however, we can confirm that no animals have escaped and members of the public are safe. We will provide a further update when we are able to.”

Prince William has finished his job as a pilot with the East Anglian Air Ambulance after completing his contract. The Duke of Cambridge has spent the last two year’s co-piloting the charity’s helicopter and flying missions in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire.

He has been based at Cambridge International Airport, where he was formally employed by Bond Air Services and drew a salary which he donated to charity.

Three-year-old Mia Tindall was spotted cuddling dad Mike as they watched Zara compete at the Burghley Horse Trials in Lincolnshire.

The pretty little Three-year-old Mia Tindall was spotted cuddling dad Mike as they watched Zara compete at the Burghley Horse Trials in Lincolnshire.

A pilot had a lucky escape after the last remaining Sea Vixen plane did an emergency landing at an airfield in Somerset.

The pilot walked away uninjured after the aircraft, known as the Foxy Lady, did a “belly-landing” on return to its base in Yeovilton. Scott Dabinett, 32, captured amazing photos of the incident, which saw the pilot make an impressive landing without landing gear after flying back from the Duxford Air Show in Cambridgeshire.

A man has built the world’s first subterranean BEACH HUT with TWO underground floors.

Inventor Colin Furze, 37, spent 12 HOURS digging the EIGHT-FOOT deep seaside bolthole with friend Rick Simpson on the shores of Six Marshes Beach, near Skegness in Lincolnshire.

A woman who owns a plot of land in a pretty Cambridgeshire village is offering it to TRAVELLERS to live on with the condition they “ruin the village.”

Linda Watson says she wants travellers to have the two-and-a-half-acre plot in Kirtling, near Newmarket because her neighbours are “so far up their own a****.” The 48-year-old has two sets of travellers coming to view the land this week and says she hopes the sale will create “s***” for the village.”

A Bruce Springsteen fan captured the ultimate selfie with The Boss during the middle of a concert in Australia.

These remarkable photos of Britain’s birds, beasts and beaches have been shortlisted in a competition to celebrate nature photography.

The stunning images of pine martens and puffins, gulls and grouse, deer and dolphins were all contenders in this year’s Scottish Nature Photography Festival contest.