Couple renovating their home find bricklayer’s 70-year-old note hidden in sweet tin in walls

Couple renovating their home find bricklayer’s 70-year-old note hidden in sweet tin in walls and have launched search to find his family Karl Church and partner Eve Jones found note at their Northampton home   Note was written by a John Rainbow in 1953 and was discovered by Mr Church   It read: Bricklayer rate 3/6 ½. February … Read more

70-year-old pulled out alive in Turkey as quake toll hits 75

Rescue workers have dragged a 70-year-old man alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in western Turkey, some 34 hours after a strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea struck Turkey and Greece.  The earthquake has killed at least 75 people and injured more than 900. It was the latest series of remarkable rescues after … Read more

Ageing rock star! ’70-year-old’ Russian climber descends mountain crevasse head-first without ropes

Ageing rock star! ’70-year-old’ Russian climber descends mountain crevasse head-first without ropes – before doing a show-off stretch for his audience The veteran Russian climber skilfully descended a vertical cliff face – head first Incredible footage shows Andrey deftly dropping down and ending in the splits The clip was filmed at the Stolby Nature Reserve … Read more

Homeless man, 30, admits stabbing 70-year-old prayer leader in the neck at Regent’s Park mosque

Homeless man, 30, admits stabbing 70-year-old Muslim prayer leader in the neck with a kitchen knife in front of horrified worshippers after attending Regent’s Park mosque for ‘a number of years’ Daniel Horton, 30, slashed Raafat Maglad in the neck at London Central Mosque The 70-year-old muezzin returned to Regent’s Park mosque within 24 hours  Judge … Read more