A decent minister, yes, but Liz Truss is as wooden as one of Bjorn Borg’s rackets: HENRY DEEDES sees the International Trade Secretary deliver a statement on deal with Australia By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 23:27 BST, 17 June 2021 | Updated: 23:30 BST, 17 June 2021 As any sportsman will tell … Read more
A father who spent three months during lockdown building a three-storey treehouse for his children has been ordered to demolish it over ‘health and safety’ fears. Kai Grunwald, 40, built the 16ft-high treehouse in the front garden of his home in Berkhampstead, Herts. for his two daughters Kara, six, and Kayleigh, four. But the £1,200 … Read more
Fenced out! DIY shopper struggles to climb through car window after jamming doors shut when he tied a load of wooden panels to the roof Baz Caney watched on as man struggled to find a way to get into this Ford Focus The man had tied five fence panels on top of his car and … Read more
A wooden statue discovered in Russia in 1890 is more ancient than previously thought, making it twice as old as Stonehenge, researchers claim. The Shigir Idol was first discovered by Russian gold miners who stumbled upon the large object in the Shigir peat bog 62 miles north of Yekaterinburg. Radiocarbon dating from the 1990s placed … Read more
Teenage carpenter, 17, spends two years building his own tiny wooden house at the bottom of his parents’ garden for just £6,000 with is own shower, wood stove, flushing toilet and room to sleep four people Thomas Lear was just 17 when he decided to build his own home from scratch at bottom of his … Read more
Teenage carpenter, 17, spends two years building his own tiny wooden house at the bottom of his parents’ garden for just £6,000 with is own shower, wood stove, flushing toilet and room to sleep four people Thomas Lear was just 17 when he decided to build his own home from scratch at bottom of his … Read more
An original Apple computer with a wooden case is up for sale for £1.1 million ($1.5 million) on eBay — some 2,250 times more than its original price tag in 1976. The ‘Apple-1’ was the first product to be developed under the Apple name by company co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak and launched in … Read more
Eats shoots and leaves… dramatically: Hungry panda tugs at bamboo branch and topples off wooden platform The giant panda eats bamboo leaves at Chongqing Zoo in southwest China Animal rolls over edge of the platform as the other pandas continue eating Panda falls onto the ground and drags the huge branch of bamboo with it … Read more
British man, 65, dies in house fire after wooden home he had built in Spain burns down ‘while he slept’ The 65-year-old built the home in Comares on land he purchased years earlier The fire is thought to have broken out at around 9pm local time on Wednesday A routine investigation is underway but the … Read more
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