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A rare 200-year-old flute closely linked to Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns, will be played in the United States for the first time this week as part of an urgent campaign to save the farm where Auld Lang Syne was written.

Swiss cheesemakers have praised a court ruling which has saved the iconic holes in Emmental. Traditionally, the holes in Emmental have been caused by hay particles inadvertently introduced to the milk when cows are milked by hand in the barns where they live and eat.

A collection of custom-painted skateboard decks is to be auctioned in aid of a new skate park on the Isle of Wight, as Freshwater Parish Council pushes to replace an ageing facility that has served the community for over two decades. The existing park, built in 2002 from wooden ramps, has reached th

An iconic clip of a man's arrest in Australia after eating "a succulent Chinese meal" is to be preserved in Australia's National Film and Sound Archive. The incredible and memorable monologue unleashed by Jack Karlson during his arrest in Brisbane in 1991 was captured by a TV news crew from the Seve

A Tesco supermarket in Kirkwall, Orkney, has been giving away thousands of bananas after an ordering error resulted in a delivery of 38,000 pieces of fruit – 380 boxes of approximately 100 bananas each. A spokesperson for the supermarket said that colleagues had been inviting local schools and

A tin of beef dripping carried on the legendary 1953 Mount Everest expedition has sold at auction for £500. The can of Colonial Beef Dripping accompanied Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on the historic journey that saw them become the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of th

A judge has shown little patience with a woman who joined an online court hearing while driving a car and then unsuccessfully tried to convince the judge she wasn't. Kimberly Carroll joined the Detroit court hearing via Zoom late and with her camera switched off, according to FOX 2.

The composer of the iconic opening song to Disney's The Lion King is suing a comedian for $27 million (c. £20.2m) for prodding fun at its lyrics. Circle of Life begins with the Zulu-language lyrics: "Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba Sithi uhm ingonyama."

A woman who slapped googly eyes on a divisive sculpture has been convicted of marking graffiti and ordered to pay compensation. Amelia Vanderhorst, 20, filmed herself making the humorous additions to the Cast in Blue sculpture in the southern Australian city of Mount Gambier while high on MDMA and d

The Royal Mint is in the final stretch of its nationwide code-breaking challenge, the Great British Treasure Hunt – and with the competition closing on 30th March, time is running out for entrants hoping to win a solid gold bar worth approximately £28,000 to £29,000. At the heart o

Nearly 300 personal items belonging to Gwyneth Paltrow are set to go under the hammer at Julien's auction house in Los Angeles next week, in a sale that ranges from the glamorous to the gloriously mundane.

A Highland couple have announced plans to donate and ultimately bequeath their entire property portfolio to support efforts to tackle the region’s worsening housing shortage. Retired construction businessman Don Michie, 75, who lives in Onich near Fort William, has built up 14 rental propertie

Police have announced a successful operation which led to the seizure of cocaine, cannabis, ketamine, cash – and stolen cornflakes. West Yorkshire Police said a raid on six addresses led to the seizure of drugs with a street value of £750,000, as well as an estimated £10,000 in cas

Archaeologists have discovered a hoard of 409 gold rouble coins beneath the foundations of a historic house in Torzhok, a city in north-western Russia approximately 420 kilometres south-east of St Petersburg. The find, dating from the final decades of the Russian Empire, may be worth well over half

A Staffordshire construction worker who was kept off work for months due to an accident has struck gold after winning a £72k Aston Martin Vantage with a 21p raffle ticket.