Thayse Bussolo-Vieira, 29, was shocked to discover her £480 iPhone 8 still worked after retrieving it from the Thames in Staines, Surrey, last week, two months after it dropped out of her pocket.

Navy Retired, in Merseyside says: ‘If you are a British Gas customer, you might as well put £200 - 300 down the nearest drain. Switch - it is so easy.’ I think he or she is bang on the money.

The British Film Commission's 30 page document outlines how to protect cast and crew from a coronavirus outbreak on set. The plan was drawn up by Netflix, BAFTA, Disney, HBO and Bectu.

British and Indian troops have taken part in a 'hugely beneficial' joint training exercise in Rajasthanm which takes place every two years alternating between countries.

Nellie had been going 'crazy' for bubbles when the 'fluke' photo was taken in Romford, East London. NASA responded saying: 'That's one small boop for the pup, one giant boop for pupkind.'

Over the past 20 years, experts from Durham University have been studying the remains of 110 Anglo-Saxons found buried in the dunes near the Northumberland castle.

First found in China, it has caused significant problems in other areas it has invaded. It can form dense mats of up to 1,500 mussels per square metre - which can suffocate scallops and oysters.

Scientists from the British Ecological Society found the fungal disease is far less severe in the isolated landscapes such as in hedgerows.

Numerous British Gas customers with prepayment meters claim they are struggling to top-up since the energy giant switched from Paypoint to Payzone terminals.

The Big Six supplier decided to change the limit at the same time it announced it was moving from Paypoint to Payzone terminals, leaving customers with 15,000 fewer locations to top up.

The Big Six supplier has introduced its Green Future Plus July 2022 fixed tariff for dual fuel customers with each customer supporting the growth of trees in the UK, according to the firm.

A couple have been left stranded in France after their campervan broke down, with their insurer claiming it is not able to help them, despite the current coronavirus outbreak.

26% bridges are over 100-year old, 5% crossed 140 years

Multinationals producing genetically modified foods attempt to force open Third World markets, even as consumers in the wealthier countries reject the risky science behind their products, says Devinder Sharma.

PM Boris Johnson opened a virtual global conference on Covid-19 on Monday where he said, "It's humanity against the virus - we are in this together, and together we will prevail." He said that fighting the pandemic together is the "most urgent shared endeavour of our lifetimes". He confirmed the UK's pledge of 388 million pounds aid funding for Covid-19 research.

Mary Wilson, a multiple sclerosis sufferer, hoped to qualify for Tokyo Paralympics but being 56-year-old, she recognises that with Covid-19 roadblock, time may not be on her side.

This new Netflix original, produced by Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies, is an action packed horror series which takes inspiration from Indian mythology.

On his 144th birth anniversary, here's taking a look at 5 books written by Jim Corbett that you must read.

Cow and Company uses satire to take stock of India and its complex relationship with religions.

Formula One signed a contract to keep the British Grand Prix at Silverstone till the 2024 season.

Pierre Gasly posted the fastest time in the first session of practice at British Grand Prix, as Romain Grosjean of Haas, Albon and Williams' British rookie George Russell had spins and off-track excursions on the newly-resurfaced circuit.

Ferrari drivers Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel posted two fastest times in the third and final free practice session of British GP at Silverstone.

Valtteri Bottas of Mercedes secured pole at British Grand Prix, as he pipped teammate Lewis Hamilton by 0.006 seconds in qualifying at Silverstone.

Lewis Hamilton will start from second after his Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas pipped him to the pole at British Grand Prix

Lewis Hamilton piped Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas to win the British Grand Prix as Ferrari's Charles Leclerc finished in third.

Sebastian Vettel finished a distant 16th in British Grand Prix and is now 100 points adrift of Lewis Hamilton on Drivers Championship board.

Valtteri Bottas's spot in the Mercedes team photo was taken by Mr Bean actor Rowan Atkinson after Lewis Hamilton won the Hungarian Grand Prix

July 19 British Grand Prix has not yet been postponed or cancelled but organisers have confirmed that fans will not be allowed.

The number of fatalities in hospitals, care homes and the wider community rose by 626 on the previous day to reach 31,241.

Britain's policy of enforcing a lockdown in time to arrest the spread of the coronavirus has most affected the generation of those VE heroes that the nation has now stood celebrating in word and speech.

Judi Dench shared her thoughts on being an 85-year-old the shortcomings that come with turning older.

Formula One plans to start the season, put on hold by the COVID-19 pandemic, with two races behind closed doors in Austria in early July before potentially two more at Silverstone.

A British vicar got more than he expected from his first attempt at an online sermon when he leaned too close to a candle on a cross and his sweater caught fire.

A young boy chooses a nurse as the superhero he wants to play with over Batman and Spiderman in a new artwork by Banksy that encapsulates the gratitude Britons have felt toward the country's National Health Service during the coronavirus crisis.

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The American Revolution came from an old British tradition. Hear how the English were in the habit of rebelling in “A Very British Revolution,” a tour at The Colonial Williamsburg Art Museums led by Emma Ross.

In 1776, England had every expectation of winning a war with her upstart American colonies, and rightly so. And what if the war had gone their way? This is the premise of a class of fiction called “alternate history,” and Director of Publications Paul Aron has found some food for thought in its reimagined histories.

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