VIDEO: Man stops runaway boat on Washington state street

Whatever halts your boat! Moment man desperately tries to stop runaway speedboat rolling down street A man desperately clung onto his boat as it rolled down a hill in Washington  The trailer’s handbrake failed propelling the boat down the hill at speed  The footage was captured on a neighbour’s CCTV camera and posted online  By … Read more

Will Peter’s return be a hoppy hit… or a flopsy? BRIAN VINER reviews Peter Rabbit 2 – The Runaway 

Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (U) Verdict: Liberty-taking sequel Rating:   My New York Year (15) Verdict: Low-key literary charmer Rating: Pippi, my companion at the Odeon Hereford, chuckled happily throughout Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway on Monday afternoon. Her pleasure made me smile. During one sustained burst of high-pitched giggling, I even laughed. For … Read more

Will Peter’s return be a hoppy hit… or a flopsy? BRIAN VINER reviews Peter Rabbit 2 – The Runaway 

Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (U) Verdict: Liberty-taking sequel Rating:   My New York Year (15) Verdict: Low-key literary charmer Rating: Pippi, my companion at the Odeon Hereford, chuckled happily throughout Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway on Monday afternoon. Her pleasure made me smile. During one sustained burst of high-pitched giggling, I even laughed. For … Read more

Prince Philip’s childhood: A runaway adulterous father and mentally unstable mother

During the early days of his public life in Britain, the Duke of Edinburgh’s nickname — waspishly repeated by Private Eye — was ‘Phil the Greek’. But he had no Greek blood, and he intensely disliked the country of his birth. Hounded out of a nation where his grandfather and uncle had once reigned as … Read more

Prince Philip’s childhood: A runaway adulterous father and mentally unstable mother

During the early days of his public life in Britain, the Duke of Edinburgh’s nickname — waspishly repeated by Private Eye — was ‘Phil the Greek’. But he had no Greek blood, and he intensely disliked the country of his birth. Hounded out of a nation where his grandfather and uncle had once reigned as … Read more

Runaway father tries to cheat paternity test by getting his BROTHER to take it for him

A reluctant dad who was challenged to take a DNA paternity test thought he had hatched the perfect escape plan when he persuaded his teenage brother to act as a stand-in. But the twisted plot backfired alarmingly when the results came back to show that the man who took the test was not the Dad … Read more

Snow joke! Hilarious moment runaway rubber DINGHY wipes out sledders at Scottish ski resort

Snow joke! Hilarious moment runaway rubber DINGHY wipes out sledders at Scottish ski resort Clip was reportedly taken on slopes of Glenshee Ski Resort, Abderdeenshire A man is knocked to his knees as three people in an inflatable career into him  Footage, posted on December 30, shows one of the men falling out of inflatable … Read more

First edition of life of runaway slave who became leading slavery abolitionist goes up for auction

A rare first edition of one of the earliest accounts of 18th-century slavery, written by the first known Black Briton to have voted in England, will go under the hammer in the New Year. Charles Ignatius Sancho’s 1782 two-volume book The Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African is one of the earliest accounts of … Read more