THE animals went in one by one... It was a busy old time at London Zoo this week, reports the Daily Mail, where over 19,000 animals were having their annual weight and height checked. Some creatures, such as rhinos, tigers and okapis, had to be coaxed on to specially constructed larger scales. The statistics are […]

IT looks as if British rock legend Rod Stewart is having a clear-out. The BBC reports that the singer, who owns a mansion in Sheering near Harlow, is auctioning off some his furniture. A spokesman for Sworders' Fine Art of Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, said that the collection of more than 60 lots includes a pair […]

AN article in The Guardian newspaper reveals that researchers at the University of Exeter have unearthed a treasure trove of poetry relating to Lancashire’s poverty-stricken cotton workers during the US civil war. Up to 400,000 of the county’s cotton workers were left unemployed when the war stopped cotton from reaching England’s north-west in the 1860s […]

NINETY- five year old Charles Betty, who left school with no qualifications, has become Britain's oldest university student after he was awarded his second PhD. The Daily Express reports that Charles is now a Doctor of Philosophy after completing a 48,000-word thesis on why elderly ex-pats living in Spain return to the UK. He took […]

IT'S perhaps not surprising that an international study of internet traffic has shown that seven in the evening is one of the most popular time to order take-away food. The BBC says data research from biologists at the University of Aberdeen, examined patterns of looking for food online, such as pizza or Chinese meals, across […]

THE Daily Mirror puts the spotlight on ABBA superfan Clive Roe,71, from Scarborough, North Yorkshire. His living room has become a shrine to the group, with more than 850 pieces of memorabilia lining the walls and filling every shelf. Clive reckons each piece of memorabilia makes him feel closer to his heroes – whether it […]