There was a 3 per cent rise in motor thefts in Britain last year, official records show – and we can exclusively tell you which models were targeted most
Almost 48,400 vehicles in 2021 were recorded by police as stolen, up from 46,800 in the previous year, according to records held by the Driver and Vehicle Licencing Agency.
While some of the most popular motors on our roads, like the Ford Fiesta and Vauxhall Corsa, are among the most stolen,
It is seen as the holy grail of energy and could lead to the creation of dozens of ‘tiny suns’ here on Earth.
But so far attempts to unlock the magic of nuclear fusion have remained tantalisingly out of reach for scientists across the world.
Britain has been one of the leading players in the field ever since the Joint European Torus (JET) was built on an industrial estate outside Oxford in 1978 — and now it has achieved a
Oxford City Council has confirmed the nation’s first ‘pilot’ Zero Emission Zone (ZEZ) will launch later this month and charge drivers of all petrol and diesel vehicles to use designated streets in the city centre – even motorists at the wheel of green hybrid cars.
Unlike London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) and Birmingham’s Clean Air Zone (CAZ), charges will be enforced on all vehicles that have a combustion engine, with only 100 per cent pure-electric models exempt as part
The Vauxhall Corsa is now the top selling car in the UK, but is it better than a Fiesta? Cars & motoring editor Rob Hull spent a fortnight driving one to find out.
Britain officially has a new king of cars. Ford’s incredible 50-year stint at the top of the sales charts was brought to an abrupt end in 2021, as the Vauxhall Corsa rose to the summit of the registrations table.
The last time a motor without a blue
The fossilised remains of Britain’s largest complete ichthyosaur specimen have been found at the Rutland Water Nature Reserve in the East Midlands.
The creature, dubbed ‘the Rutland Sea Dragon’, is some 33 feet (10 m) long and is the first of its species, Temnodontosaurus trigonodon, to ever be found in the UK.
Ichthyosaurs were a successful group of marine reptiles that swam Earth’s oceans between 250–90 million years ago. T. trigonodon lived around 180 million years ago.
The specimen was
Neighbours of the UK’s bird flu ‘patient zero’ today claimed his house was ‘full of duck droppings’ after he shared the property for years with around 20 of his feathered friends.
Heartbroken grandfather Alan Gosling, 79, says he is ‘very lonely’ in self-isolation at his home in Buckfastleigh, Devon, after his beloved birds were culled.
The retired train driver is believed to have caught the potentially deadly H5N1 strain from the Mandarin ducks he adopted in his waterside home.
He
Britain’s ever-growing wave of Omicron soared to yet another pandemic high today as Boris Johnson warned of ‘challenges’ in the weeks ahead.
Department of Health bosses logged another 189,846 positive tests, eclipsing yesterday’s single-day record by a fraction and marking a 55 per cent surge on last Friday.
Hospitalisations have soared by 65 per cent over the same time-frame, with NHS wards in England now as busy as during the devastating second wave last January. Another 203 deaths were registered
Clear night skies are quite a rarity in Britain – but when the clouds do break, the cosmos is always ready to put on a show, as these incredible pictures reveal in mesmerising fashion.
They’re all taken by Dan Monk, 30, an astronomer and the Director of Astrophotography at Kielder Observatory in Northumberland.
One photograph captures the majesty of the Milky Way, which he explains is ‘roughly 100,000 light-years’ away from the Earth, while another illustrates the Andromeda Galaxy –
There are already signs that the current situation may not be as bleak as previously predicted.
The results of five studies published last week – three of which were British – point in the same direction: Omicron may be less deadly than previous variants.
The concern is, of course, what will happen in the coming weeks in hospitals. Even if a small percentage of the 120,000 plus daily Covid cases become sick enough to need intensive treatment, that’s still a
Few scientific breakthroughs have proven to be as momentous – or as controversial – as the fertility treatment that has paved the way for three-parent babies.
The extraordinary technique used to create these children, described as the biggest advance in fertility medicine since IVF itself, was developed to help families plagued by devastating inherited conditions to have healthy babies.
Using genetic material from three people – sperm from the father, an egg from the mother and a donor egg from
