A man has resorted to raffling off a £845,000 six-bed country mansion for just £2 because no one wants to buy it. The Grade II listed home boasts its own cinema room, lots of surrounding land and room for six cars.more
Prince Harry has urged the world to continue his late mother's mission to rid the world of landmines, in a deeply emotional speech about her final weeks of charity work.more
The mayor of London should cancel the Garden Bridge and accept that £46 million of public money has been lost, Margaret Hodge has advised in a damning report on the project's procurement and value for moneymore
Ireland is now a country with older and less religious people and with more migrants and travellers, and we are speaking less Irish, according to the first results from Census 2016. The population of Ireland rose by 3.8 per cent between April 2011 and April 2016, according to results from the Central Statistic Office (CSO) published today.more
A nanny has told how she was left "disgusted" after finding a snail in a tin of garden peas. Reisha Richards, 22, from Clapham, discovered the creature curled up among the canned garden peas as she prepared her dinner on Tuesday evening.more
Even if you don't live in London, you're probably used to people whining about how much it costs. So the fact that a studio flat is really expensive will come as absolutely no surprise. But this studio flat is a bit special.more
Members of the public are being given the opportunity to test a driverless vehicle for the first time.Around 100 people will travel in a prototype shuttle on a two-mile route near London's O2 Arena over the next three weeks.more
The world's most advanced coin joined the UK market on 28 March, with a billion already struck and ready for use - a handful of which could be with a mint. Set to replace the current 'round pound', introduced more than 34 years ago, the new £1 coin will feature a security-proof hologram, which flickers between a '£' symbol to the number '1', under different lights.more
Notting Hill Carnival organisers have been urged to bring in a professional company to oversee future events and prevent a repeat of last year's "near catastrophe".more
THE BRAND NEW 50 EUR notes go into circulation tomorrow - can you spot the difference between the new and old notes? "If there's one thing I want people to take from this it's the look, feel, tilt," the Central Bank's Paul Molumby tells a roundtable of journalists.more
It was a rare display of genuine Royal affection. On a tour of Romania yesterday, the Prince of Wales spotted the son of a close friend, wrapped his arms around and gave him the biggest of hugs. Prince Charles beamed with joy. So too did the 11-year-old boymore
A woman who was visiting her mum's grave on Mother's Day found a 'parking ticket' warning her its decorations were too big. Sarah Handley said the letter from Stockton Council, which resembled a parking fine, told her the grave decorations were one inch oversized.more
Polish MON and the American Boeing Group signed a $ 523 million (approximately $ 2 billion) deal for the delivery of three medium-sized B737 aircraft to Warsaw.more
A developer plans to transform council offices into hundreds of tiny studio flats, despite opposition from campaigners and local residents, who have compared the homes to cages and dog kennels.more