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.
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.
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.
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.”
King Charles has opened a GIN BAR on his Royal Sandringham estate in Norfolk – selling his homemade booze.
The Monarch’s pink saloon within the estate’s 60 acre formal gardens is serving GIN and TONICS for £6.50 with a choice of his Raspberry & Apple Gin or Celebration Gin.
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.
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.
King Charles is serving up his wife’s favourite winter breakfast to visitors at his Royal Sandringham estate in Norfolk – PORRIDGE with homemade HONEY.
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.