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The couple lost touch after a holiday romance 31 years ago [GETTY] Mandy Ashforth was 17 when she met 19-year-old Barrie Moat in the East coast resort of Bridlington in 1982. They were amazed to discover they lived just 12 miles apart in South Yorkshire. After their week-long romance the pair agreed to meet up at a set time and ...

BRAVE: Sherry was shot in the spine and now cared for by Emma Billington [MEN] Plucky Sherry has been fitted with a set of wheels after being shot in the back and paralysed in Hungary earlier this year. She was found and rescued by volunteers from charity Twitchy Noses, which works to rehome Hungarian strays in the UK. Vets were ...

A picture claiming to be of a python that has swallowed a man has gone viral [TWITTER] The image posted by a user of the social networking site based in India has been retweeted almost 15,000 times and been favourited more than 4,000 times. The picture shows a huge snake lying on the ground with what looks like a person ...

Experts have claimed musical properties to Stonehenge [GETTY] They have found that the bluestones which form an outer ring of the 5,000-year-old monument have musical properties. They believe this could help the answer  mystery of why Stone Age man went to the enormous trouble of transporting them 150 miles from Pembrokeshire’s Preseli Hills  to Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. A team ...

From a toilet roll to this Scouts tricks have progressed [CATERS] Nine-year-old terrier Scout has developed the rare talent of being able to balance objects on his head. A traffic cone, three hamburgers and even a glass of tomato juice present no problem for the patient pet. What is more, the pitbull – a breed banned in Britain for being ...

Duncan Lou Who carts his best pal Ducky around [CATERS] Sixteen-week-old Boxer Duncan Lou Who melted hearts around the world with his determined strut despite being born with severely deformed back legs. The plucky pooch can still run circles around his owners and has conquered his disability by bounding everywhere on his front paws. Vets have now hand built him ...

KFC’s first Christmas advert sees people brought together over a bucket of chicken [PH] KFC have today released their first Christmas advert, which sees a group of bickering people put aside their differences and come together over a bucket of chicken. The tongue-in-cheek advert pokes fun at the sentimental side of Christmas with people in awkward situations singing a corny ...

Socks the Dancing Shetland pony in a Christmas jumper [THREE] The video of Socks dancing to the tune of Fleetwood Mac’s 1988 hit Everywhere became an internet hit earlier this year, with more than seven million people viewing it on YouTube. It has now been announced that Socks has been called back to star in a second commercial for the ...

Rex the German Shepherd and Geraldine the goose have become firm friends [SWNS] Rex the German Shepherd was so vicious it would take two people to feed him – one to distract him and the other to throw a bowl of food into his enclosure. He would bark and growl at anything that passed and would even try to poke ...

The car crashes into two parked vehicles [SWNS] After the hapless motorist eased out of the bay at a sensible speed, the car inexplicably sped up, span 180 degrees and smashed into two other parked cars. The out-of-control silver Ford finally came to rest in the zig-zag zone of car park after hitting a safety barrier. British Transport Police are ...