A man has told of his ‘miracle’ escape after a 65ft crane collapsed on to his house in east London, killing his 85-year-old great aunt. Sam Atkinson, 28, and his mother Jacqueline Atkinson, 63, survived but June Harvey died during the tragic incident in Bow at 2pm yesterday. Specialist firefighters are today working to recover her … Read more
World’s oldest cat dies AGED 31 after owner, 52, who was given him as a kitten for her 20th birthday pays tribute Rubble died just before turning 32 which is almost 150 in human years He lived in Exeter, in Devon, with his owner Michele Heritage, 52 The moggy beat the record of 30-year-old Scooter … Read more
Mars’s moon Phobos was once a ring of rubble around the Red Planet that clumped together to form a solid ball – and it may disintegrate again in about 100 million years Astronomers from the SETI Institute looked at the orbit of the two Martian moons They wanted to confirm a 2017 theory that Phobos … Read more
Travellers have built an illegal permanent camp using 1,000 tonnes of rubble and 12 dumper trucks in just three days after moving onto a field in the middle of the night, despite being denied planning permission. Truckers arrived on the land close to the Swan With Two Necks pub at Blackbrook, in Staffordshire, at 3am last … Read more
Travellers have built an illegal permanent camp using 1,000 tonnes of rubble in just three days after they were denied panning permission to park six caravans on the site. Around 12 dumper truckers arrived on the land close to the Swan With Two Necks pub at Blackbrook, in Staffordshire, at 3am last Saturday. Drone footage shows … Read more
Forty seven people have been rescued from the remains of a hotel in China being used to quarantine coronavirus victims after it collapsed. The five-storey Xinjai hotel in Quanzhou came down on Saturday, trapping about 70 people, state media said. Rescue workers toiled through the night to pull survivors out, but were still looking for another … Read more