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A man has been rebuked for dialling 999 in a row over pumpkins. West Yorkshire Police shared an audio recording of the call on Twitter as it pleaded with members of the public not to call except in a life-or-death emergency.

A woman in the New Town in Edinburgh who painted her door pink has incurred the wrath of locals. Miranda Dickson, 48, departed from the mandated black to paint the front door of her Drummond Place property a shade of Champagne pink, leading to the council threatening her with a £20,000 fine.

A woman has received a cheque for £18,000 from the DWP after money expert Martin Lewis revealed a pensions tax trick that numerous people are failing to claim. During his Martin Lewis Money Show Live, Mr Lewis said hundreds of thousands of people - mostly women - could be owed at least £

A row has broken out over plans to build a new, bog-standard public toilet in San Francisco at a cost of $1.7 million (around £1.5 million). City councillors last week called a press conference to announce that Noe Valley, currently served only by a temporary portable toilet, would get a singl

A manuscript containing a passage from Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species is set to be sold at auction. The manuscript, which is expected to sell for between £530,000 and £700,000, will go on sale in November, The Guardian reports. 

Finally, a politician you can trust: a cat has been appointed as the mayor of an Italian town and will stay in office for a year. Miao spent her first day as ‘mayor of the animals’ of Civita d’Antino, Abruzzo Region, southern Italy earlier this month.

A former lighthouse building with a historic connection to author Robert Louis Stevenson has gone up for sale for £149,000. The Lighthouse Engine House is adjacent to Noss Head Lighthouse and was home to Alan Stevenson, the engineer who oversaw the construction the lighthouse in the 1800s &mda

An auction house has sacked an expert who valued a Chinese vase at €2,000 — which went on to sell for nearly €8 million. The expert, who has not been named, told the French auction house that he believed that vase was from the 20th century and not an antique, The Guardian reports.

Cannabis can now be ordered on Uber Eats in Toronto.

A woman who refuses to deal with a rodent infestation in her home because of her “ethical vegan” beliefs – leading to mice overrunning her neighbours’ homes – has been fined for a second time. Margaret Manzoni, 73, has driven some of her neighbours out of their homes by

A Japanese woman has become the victim of a romance scam that is out of this world. The 65-year-old struck up an interaction with a man on Instagram who told her he needed thousands of dollars – to return to Earth.

Diego Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ ball is set to go up for auction next month and is expected to sell for £2.5-3 million. The ball is the one the Argentinian football legend used to score his "Hand of God" goal against England at the 1986 World Cup.

A medal awarded to a dog who completed 20 parachute descents in World War Two has been sold at auction for £140,000. The medal is amongst other war memorabilia included in the lot which also featured photos, books and a collar.

A collection of gold coins found under the kitchen floor has sold for more than £750,000 at auction.

New Zealand’s government has proposed taxing the greenhouse gasses that farm animals make from burping and peeing. The government said that the farm levy would help farmers recover the cost of the tax by charging higher prices for climate-friendly products.