A MUM had to be rescued by four fire crews after getting stuck up a tree — trying to save her sister’s escaped parrot. Leanne Jones, 32, was eating her lunch with her baby macaw Missy on Friday afternoon when it flew away. After failing to coax the parrot down, Toni-Anne, 33, scaled the tree […]
POLICE were called to a flat after shouts of “I’m going to kill you” — only to discover it was a terrified mum tickled by a spider in the bath. Panic-struck Stephanie Burrows, 24, flooded her bathroom and hallway in her desperate scramble to get out of the tub. Neighbours had heard screams and told […]
A DRUG pusher bought a taxi to set up a cocaine delivery service. Jamie Smith, 26, purchased the cab emblazoned with stickers of a well-known taxi business. But he was rumbled when police saw a suspected drug dealer walking up to the vehicle. Smith had more than £200 in a bag and 405g of cocaine […]
FREE PCR tests will be axed within weeks as part of Boris Johnson’s plan to live with Covid. The PM is drawing up proposals to charge people if they want PCRs. It is understood they will remain free for vulnerable people and within hospitals and high-risk settings. Brits are currently told to get a highly-accurate […]
IT was big in the Middle Ages – and now mead is back after a millennium in the culinary wilderness. A thirst for craft booze, the popularity of TV’s Game Of Thrones and the simple Paleo diet trend have all combined to resurrect the ancient honey and water drink. Until recently it was purely the […]