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More than 2,000 Christmas trees were planted at St Annes beach in February 2026. (Photo: .visitstannes.info) Discarded Christmas trees are being used to help protect homes and businesses along the Fylde Coast in Lancashire, UK. Since the project began in 2013, old Christmas trees have been placed on St Annes beach to trap wind-blown sand…

​Isabel Getty, great-granddaughter of J. Paul Getty, begins a new chapter with British financier Faris McKinnon. (Photo: Instagram) Isabel Getty, the 32-year-old great-granddaughter of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, has married British financier Faris McKinnon in an intimate ceremony in London. The billionaire heiress looked elegant in a white skirt suit paired with striking cobalt…

Ricky Hatton’s luxury mansion sells for £1.5m after £350,000 price cut. (Photo: Getty Images/Rightmove) The luxury mansion belonging to late boxing legend Ricky Hatton has finally been sold for £1.5 million, £350,000 below its original asking price, according to Land Registry documents cited by the Daily Mail.The five-bedroom detached property in Gee Cross, Greater Manchester,…

A British trekker has been found dead after disappearing during a descent from a mountain in northern Pakistan.Alexander Harris, 30, from Birmingham, had been descending Musa Ka Musala in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Saturday when he became separated from his hiking companion. His body was later found on a forest path, BBC reported.Khalid Iqbal, the area’s…

Jatinder Kaur and Satwant Singh. British former college lecturer Sophie Hynd has pleaded guilty of killing an Indian-origin couple in a head-on crash while drink-driving home from a Christmas party.Hynd, 33, admitted at the High Court in Edinburgh that her driving caused the deaths of Satwant Singh, 64, and his wife Jatinder Kaur, 48, on…

An Indian-origin British Airways cabin crew manager has been convicted of sexually assaulting a female colleague at his home in Berkshire after she woke to find him touching her without her consent.Amardip “Amo” Dhariwal, 55, was found guilty of one count of sexual assault by penetration following a nine-day trial at Reading Crown Court.The incident…

Prince Philippos and Princess Nina welcome baby boy Kimon Thomas Konstantinos. Prince Philippos and Princess Nina of Greece have become parents for the first time, welcoming a baby boy via surrogate earlier this summer in the United States. The former Greek royal family announced the arrival on September 1, revealing that their son, Kimon Thomas…

William Shakespeare (Image: Wikipedia) Two people can look at their own life story and understand its shape in completely different ways. One sees a single, continuous identity, the same person carrying the same fixed role from beginning to end, expected to remain recognisably consistent throughout. The other sees something closer to a sequence of distinct…

Mike Nithavrianakis worked as a British diplomat in Pakistan for three years from 2019 to 2022, working as Deputy High Commissioner in Karachi and Trade Director for Pakistan. During his time there, he clearly remembers his first visit to a school run by The Citizens Foundation (TCF) in Pakistan, The students in the classrooms were…

A Chinese jade dog bought for just £1 at a UK car boot sale has been identified as a 600-year-old Ming dynasty treasure. (Photo: PA) A rare Chinese jade dog believed to be more than 600 years old could fetch up to £10,000 at auction after being bought for just £1 at a car boot…