IT'S the nightmare that all brides-to-be dread – Teresa Hewitt set off for her wedding, accompanied by her father Richard in a vintage Austin Rose car only for the vehicle to break down just yards down the road.
Despite standing by the roadside in her wedding dress, Teresa, from Trowse, Norfolk saw drivers pass by her for at least five minutes before nurse Jackie Geary pulled up to rescue the distraught pair.
Teresa eventually arrived by St John's Cathedral in Norwich 20 minutes late for her wedding to Ross Hewitt.
She told the Daily Mirror: “We have a family friend who spent two years restoring this car and it was beautiful. But a minute after we set off, it just conked out. I was panicking and it was so hot outside. There were so many people driving past and just gawping at us as I was doing the hitchhiker sign.”
Commenting about Jackie, Teresa said: “She helped me out of the car and helped me with my dress. She saved my wedding.”
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It's one of Scotland's most famous landmarks and now the Forth Bridge has been confirmed by Unesco as the country's sixth world heritage site.
The Guardian reports that the rail bridge, which is 2,529 metres long and 100 metres high, was the largest cantilever span in the world when it opened in 1890.
Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon said: “The Forth Bridge’s inscription as a World Heritage Site is an honour, and true recognition of the bridge’s unique place in Scotland’s history.”
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Amusing correspondence between a little boy and a massive supermarket chain detailed in the Daily Mirror.
Apparently John Hyde jokingly told his son George that the secret ingredient in Morrisons' shampoo was 'poo.' So George wrote to the supermarket asking what exactly was in the shampoo. Sarah Sharp, a Morrisons customer advisor wrote back saying: “I know that shampoo has the word 'poo' in it, but it's not real poo. Your dad was just kidding with you.”
And she added: “I'm sending you some pennies for you to buy some really nice-smelling shampoo so your hair will smell of strawberries or melon or even pears! Those are very lovely smells.”
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You couldn't make it up.... on their return to the UK, the England women's football team who gained third place in the recent World Cup tournament in Canada, were greeted with a message on the Football Association's official Twitter account which read: “Our Lionesses go back to being mothers, partners and daughters today, but they have taken on another title – heroes.”
The message was later deleted, says the Daily Express, but not before creating a twitter storm.
A spokesperson for the FA commented: “The full story was a wider homecoming feature attempting to reflect the many personal stories within the playing squad as has been told throughout the course of the tournament. However, we understand that an element of the story appears to have been taken out of context and the opening paragraph was subsequently revised to reflect that fact.”
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A street scene by the artist JWM Turner, which has been described as the greatest painting of Oxford, will stay in the city after the Ashmolean Museum raised the £860,000 to buy it in just four weeks, says The Guardian.
The High Street, Oxford, by Turner, was left to the British nation in lieu of inheritance tax, but its value of £3.5m was more than the tax due and this led to the fundraising campaign by the museum where it has been on loan from a private collection since 1997.
Director Alexander Sturgis, said: “The museum has been overwhelmed by public support.”
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