Isobel Dickinson

Delivery man Paul Dixon found hundreds of long-term empty properties around his home city of Lincoln and beyond - and then reported them to Empty Property Hunters

Wayne Denton, 69, and Janet Martin, 54, spent £2,480 on gold VIP packages for the US star's show in Liverpool but he was denied entry to the meet to the meet-and-greet

A study found half of people supported a ban on loud food in some places and “eat considerately” warnings on noisy snacks

Eating noisily has been named as one of the most annoying habits in Britain. Most people said high-volume chomping was a bigger bugbear than people using speakerphones on the train, snoring, crying babies and barking dogs.

They've been enchanting children for more than 30 years and are still firm favourites in the nation's toy boxes

Brits’ health is being put at risk by a surge in counterfeit condoms after the Strait of Hormuz closure drove prices up, with EU officials seizing 200,000+ fake “Johnnies” smuggled from China

Boffs at Imperial College London, the Met Office and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found about 550 people died of heat-related causes in nine days of the May heatwave

Boffs at Imperial College London, the Met Office and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found about 550 people died of heat-related causes in nine days of the May heatwave

More than 2,700 people died of heat-related causes in May and June's record hot spells, experts say. And more than two fifths of the deaths were as a result of extra heat caused by human activity, they estimate.

The Stick is a new campaign celebrating the original multi-purpose device which children have played with throughout history as more families aim to spend time in nature this summer