Housands of cushions handmade as gifts for Olympics athletes may go to waste after London 2012 KNITWITS stitched up volunteers by refusing to allow them to hand them out.The London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG) initially told volunteers from the Woolsack project that they could hand out the 5,000 cushions they had created as souvenirs for the elite stars. But now, in fear of angering commercial sponsors, they have reneged on the deal. Dedicated families and elderly and disabled members of the scheme, which was designed to give athletes a British wool based welcome gift to the games, have grafted since early last year to create the individually crafted presents. A third of the games' athletes, including members of Team GB, confirmed their interest in receiving the decorative welcome gifts with athletics stars Jessica Ennis and Marilyn Okoro posing with samples at events last year.
A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .
She was the 18th century celebrity who made men faint in awe of her beauty by her very presence .
A woman who blew £12k of her student loan on junk food and booze has lost 10st after ditching her unhealthy habits .
Tina O’Brien, 54, from East Midlands, met Frederick Allchorne, now 62, when she was 15 .
CCTV shows a dark figure dumping the dog- A pet dog suffering with cancer has been put down after being dumped at an animal rescue in what officials said is the worst abandonment of any animal they have witnessed .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
Meet the real life princess who has spent £10k transforming herself into nine Disney beauties .
On June 23, 2017, Coral Denakis, now 27, woke up on the morning of her wedding day to find a car on fire outside her hotel .
A photographer has transformed women with alopecia into stunning sirens - showing that bald is beautiful .
SOARING at 112 miles per hour through the air, this petite blonde certainly lives up to her title as the fastest flying woman in the world .