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The Mushroom Shed was designed to resemble a mushroom. A 12-year-old girl from Surrey, England, gave her father £500 from her savings and asked him to build a house shaped like a mushroom in their back garden. Her father, Ben Swanborough, took up the challenge and built a two-storey wooden hideaway with a trapdoor, stained-glass…

A woman paid about £80 for a Dior bag in a Cotswolds charity shop without knowing if it was genuine; experts identified it as a rare 2003 Koi Saddle Bag, and it later sold for £7,870/Image: Kinghams Auctioneers A Dior handbag bought for about £80 in a Cotswolds charity shop has sold for £7,870 at…

Richard Branson was 29 when he pursued Necker Island, initially offering $100,000 despite its $6 million asking price. (Photo: Owen Buggy) Long before Sir Richard Branson became a billionaire entrepreneur with a global business empire, he was a young businessman looking for a way to impress the woman he had fallen in love with.His idea…

As the first residents prepare to move in, the project represents the Duchy of Cornwall’s first housing development specifically designed to address homelessness. A new housing project in Cornwall is putting a different face on the fight against homelessness. Rather than treating shelter as a temporary stopgap, the development in Nansledan, Newquay, combines carefully designed…

Kingstown Road and Scotland Road form one of the main routes into Carlisle, and by autumn 2017 they had a new skin. Some of the bitumen holding the asphalt together had been replaced with pellets made from waste plastic.Cumbria, an area in England, wanted to make roads the better way. Roads that are environmentally friendly….

Oxford Professor Alexander Betts has set a Guinness World Record at the 2026 London Marathon dressed as an academic. Betts, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for External Engagement, Sport, and Community, and Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs at the Oxford Department of International Development, completed the marathon in 2 hours 55 minutes. Guinness World Records officially recognised…

Representative Image of key moments in ZSL history, from royal openings to animal exhibits ( AI Generrated Image) A royal visit to London Zoo in 2016 completed a circle that had begun 40 years earlier. According to the Zoological Society of London, Queen Elizabeth II opened the Lion Terraces at London Zoo in 1976, then…

Image: The Royal Family (left) King Charles visited a research project in North Yorkshire exploring a new way to control Britain’s grey squirrel population and help protect its native red squirrels. During his visit on May 26, 2026, the King met scientists at the Animal and Plant Health Agency’s York Biotech Campus in Sand Hutton…

Representative Image of a man in an inflatable chicken costume crossing a marathon finish line ( AI Generrated Image) Sebastian Burley, 36, finished the 26.2-mile course in 4:00:33 on Sunday, 26 April 2026, becoming the fastest man to complete a marathon in a full-body inflatable costume, according to Guinness World Records. Burley ran to raise…

Chris Rokos gets approval for a major solar farm at his historic Savernake Estate. Hedge fund billionaire Chris Rokos has secured planning approval to build a major solar farm on his Savernake Estate in Wiltshire, overcoming objections from neighbours who warned the project could damage the historic landscape around his Grade I-listed mansion, Tottenham House.According…