NHS paramedic who stole two defibrillators from ambulances and sold them for £500 on Facebook is struck off Former Paramedic Dominic Barone made a fraudulent injury against NHS Wales He falsely claimed that he was injured while transporting a patient at work He then sold two stolen defibrillators on Facebook for £500 plus postage By … Read more
Struggle Street turned millionaire row: How a dilapidated fibro home sold for $2million in Sydney’s Mount Druitt A 1150sqm block on Derwent street in Mount Druitt has sold for $1.92million The sale price was $520,000 over owner’s reserve at online auction on July 24 Real estate agents attributed the inflated sale price to gentrification projects … Read more
Unopened 1996 copy of Nintendo’s Super Mario 64 becomes the most expensive video game in history after selling for $1.56M at auction Sold by Heritage Auctions, its’ the most ever paid at auction for a video game Game was listed under pristine condition by market experts Legendary game marks Mario’s 3D debut on the N64 console … Read more
Now China buys up our top microchip maker: Britain’s biggest producer is to be sold to Chinese-owned technology firm despite security fears Nexperia agreed to buy Newport Wafer Fab in a deal said to be worth £63million The South Wales facility manufactures crucial power components for vehicles Ministers were urged to intervene as Nexperia is owned … Read more
Emotional moment mother and son are finally reunited 31 YEARS after being kidnapped and sold into slavery by human traffickers In 1990, three-year-old Tao and his mother Zhou Jiaying were abducted and sold They were sold by neighbours to a family in China’s province of Shandong Ms Jiaying escaped within months, but was unable to save … Read more
Born in Lyme Regis on the Dorset coast in 1804, John Gould was brought up in Surrey and later Windsor, where his father was a gardener at the monarch’s castle. Gould taught himself taxidermy – the practice of preserving an animal’s body by stuffing or mounting – from an early age. In 1824, he moved … Read more
Born in Lyme Regis on the Dorset coast in 1804, John Gould was brought up in Surrey and later Windsor, where his father was a gardener at the monarch’s castle. Gould taught himself taxidermy – the practice of preserving an animal’s body by stuffing or mounting – from an early age. In 1824, he moved … Read more
One-of-a-kind ‘flawless’ 15.8-carat pink diamond, known as ‘The Sakura’ sold at auction for a record $29.3 million Purple-pink diamond known as ‘The Sakura’ was sold by Christie’s auction house for $29.3 million The 15.8-carat gemstone is ‘internally flawless’ and ‘fancy vivid,’ a measure of its color An Asian private buyer purchased the stone The Sakura, … Read more
GCSE and A-level papers from last summer’s cancelled exams that will be used by schools to predict grades ‘are being sold online for £1’ Schools in England likely to use 2020 papers to determine grades this summer Students have been using social media to sell and share access to the exams Candidates can access them … Read more
Close to 80,000 tickets for Wimbledon are to be sold to the public online for the first time ever, replacing the traditional ballot. A minimum capacity of 25 per cent is currently being planned for this year’s competition, starting June 28, with the hope that this can increase as lockdown eases. According to The Times, … Read more