TRAIN passengers have faced delays nearly 15,000 times in the past five years due to issues with junction points. Network Rail figures show trains are thrown into chaos over faulty points more than 50 times a week. One failure alone between Reading and Newbury in Berkshire last January affected… Train passengers faced delays 15,000 times … Read more
Map reveals Britain’s most miserable places to live in grim new shortlist – how gloomy is your hometown? …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>> BRITAIN’S most miserable places to live have been named in a new shortlist – but does your hometown make the cut? A yearly happiness study by property website Rightmove has revealed that Slough in Berkshire, … Read more
I won Gladiators and faced Gareth Southgate as a player – now I’m looking to cause FA Cup upset with minnows …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>> HARBOROUGH TOWN’S contender is ready . . . Dave Staff, assistant boss of the seventh-tier club, is a former winner of the TV show Gladiators. But being part of his home-town club’s journey … Read more
Schoolboy, 10, drowns after jumping in river despite horrified best pal diving in 10 TIMES to save him …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>> A SCHOOLBOY drowned after jumping into a river as his horrified best friend dived in 10 times to try and rescue him. Shadrack Appiah, 10, ran ahead from a group of friends before … Read more
Lucky farmer left shell-shocked after hen lays perfectly spherical egg …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>> A LUCKY chicken farmer was left shell-shocked after his hen laid a super-rare round egg. Alex Gingell, 53, made the one-in-a-billion discovery during a daily sweep of his pen. 2 Dressage coach Alex has been keeping hens, which he calls ‘little … Read more