Three thugs doused vulnerable man in petrol and left him to burn alive in ‘horrendous attack’

Three thugs who doused a vulnerable man in petrol and left him to burn alive in a ‘brutal, horrendous and violent’ attack during a drugs turf war have been jailed for a total of almost 60 years. Connah Jenkinson, 26, John O’Brien, 33, and Joseph McEwan, 20, carried out the horrific assault and killed Robert … Read more

Three thugs doused vulnerable man in petrol and left him to burn alive in ‘horrendous attack’

Three thugs who doused a vulnerable man in petrol and left him to burn alive in a ‘brutal, horrendous and violent’ attack during a drugs turf war have been jailed for a total of almost 60 years. Connah Jenkinson, 26, John O’Brien, 33, and Joseph McEwan, 20, carried out the horrific assault and killed Robert … Read more

Women’s Fitness magazine divides opinion after urging people to ‘burn off those Christmas calories’

Women’s Fitness magazine is branded ‘negative and dangerous’ after asking Twitter users to share phtos of themselves ‘burning off their Christmas calories’ Women’s Fitness UK asked fans to share snaps of themselves exercising  Posting on Twitter, magazine said it’s a ‘great day to burn off Christmas calories’ Responses accused the publication of using ‘problematic’ and ‘archaic’ … Read more

Women’s Fitness magazine divides opinion after urging people to ‘burn off those Christmas calories’

Women’s Fitness magazine is branded ‘negative and dangerous’ after asking Twitter users to share phtos of themselves ‘burning off their Christmas calories’ Women’s Fitness UK asked fans to share snaps of themselves exercising  Posting on Twitter, magazine said it’s a ‘great day to burn off Christmas calories’ Responses accused the publication of using ‘problematic’ and ‘archaic’ … Read more

Space: Japan to launch first WOODEN satellite by 2023 that will burn up completely on re-entry 

Japan to launch first WOODEN satellite by 2023 that will burn up completely on re-entry without releasing harmful particles into the atmosphere Lightweight and durable, aluminium is the major component of today’s satellites However, when disintegrated during re-entry it releases particles of alumina These stay in the air for years and can react with and … Read more

‘My feet burn with pain if I go walking’: DR MARTIN SCURR answers your health questions

I’m an avid walker aged 74, but now find after a few miles I get a tingling feeling in my little toe which spreads to the pad of my foot and burns, so it’s painful to walk. A consultant said it’s not to do with nerve endings, but could it be peripheral neuropathy? Christine Champeny, … Read more

Russian billionaire would rather ‘burn’ fortune than pay ex-wife divorce bill

A Russian billionaire said he would rather ‘burn’ his money than pay his ex-wife’s divorce settlement, a court heard yesterday. Oligarch Farkhad Akhmedov is alleged to be hiding millions owed to his former spouse in Russia to avoid making a payout ordered by a British court. Tatiana Akhmedova, 48, who describes herself as ‘Russian by … Read more

NASA satellite image shows thick smoke and a large burn scar from Colorado’s East Troublesome Fire

A small fire ignited in central Colorado on October 12 that burned through more than 190,000 acres in just 10 days – and NASA has captured the violent scene from space. The Operational Land Image (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite snapped an image from 438 miles above the blaze that is deemed the state’s … Read more

Jilly Cooper urges her children to burn her racy diaries after dies

She’s best known for her series of raunchy romance novels dubbed ‘bonkbusters’.  But it seems Jilly Cooper’s own diaries are racier than her fiction as she has told her children to burn them after she dies.  The author, 83, said she hopes her children, Felix and Emily, destroy the detailed journals she has kept since … Read more