Two former jail employees and their supervisor face misdemeanour cruelty charges after investigators found they forced inmates to stand handcuffed for hours and listen to the children’s song Baby Shark on repeat. At least four inmates were secured to a wall with their hands…

A man who adopted two pet geese during lockdown has started taking them to his local pub wearing nappies. Sven Kirby, 34, is regularly spotted walking the birds, named Norbert and Beep Beep, around the streets of Leeds and the odd trio…

Those wrestling with the great culinary-philosophical dilemmas of our time – are jaffa cakes actually cakes or just up-themselves biscuits, is putting chorizo in paella really an act of gastronomic terrorism, and what kind of monster doesn’t love Marmite? – can give thanks to…

This rare first edition copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is one of only 500 that were printed. A man was stunned to discover that a Harry Potter book he purchased in 1999 could fetch a small fortune at an…