Early Bronze Age people used rings, bangles and axe blades as an early form of money 5,000 years ago

Europe’s first common currency: Early Bronze Age people used rings, bangles and even axe blades as an early form of money 5,000 years ago Researchers examined more than 5,000 objects from 100 ancient hoards Around 70% of the rings were similar enough to be indistinguishable by hand This consistent similarity in shape and weight are … Read more

Meat, nappies, razor blades and deodorant top the list of Britain’s most shoplifted items

Meat, nappies, razor blades and deodorant top the list of Britain’s most shoplifted items, reveals the company behind a facial recognition camera system used to spot criminals Meat, nappies, razor blades and deodorant are Britain’s most shoplifted items Facewatch operates in some Southern Co-op stores, Budgens, garden centres   System sends alert to staff when someone … Read more

Skilled hauliers negotiate huge 220ft rotor blades through tiny villages and narrow roads 

Mirror, signal and one heck of a manoeuvre: Skilled hauliers negotiate huge 220ft rotor blades through tiny villages and narrow roads Haulier company  P. Adams Schwertentransporte shared the astonishing images The Luxembourg transporters carried the 25-tonne blade through country lanes The blades are attached to a platform which can pivot according to the roads  By … Read more

The Repair Shop’s Jay Blades and Will Kirk well up as sisters dance to parents’ restored stereogram

The Repair Shop’s Jay Blades and Will Kirk fought back tears in last night’s festive special as two sisters were reunited with their parents’ lovingly restored stereogram. Sandra and Donna were overcome with emotion when the machine began playing Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song – the first time they’d heard it play since the … Read more

Holly Willoughby’s husband Dan Baldwin launches new TV firm with The Repair Shop’s Jay Blades

‘We can’t wait to reveal what we’ve been working on together!’: Holly Willoughby’s husband Dan Baldwin launches new TV firm with The Repair Shop’s Jay Blades By Georgia Simcox For Mailonline Published: 02:02 GMT, 29 November 2020 | Updated: 02:03 GMT, 29 November 2020 Holly Willoughby’s husband Dan Baldwin has launched a new TV firm … Read more

Archaeology: our ancestors were using fire to make tools 300,000 years ago, flint blades reveal

Fire was used to make tools by our early human ancestors some 300,000 years ago, an analysis of flint blades unearthed in a cave east of Tel Aviv has revealed.  Researchers from Israel studied stone blades, flakes and pot-lids from the Qesem cave — and discovered evidence that they had been exposed to controlled fires. Exposing … Read more

Bloody scenes as Muslims flagellate themselves with chains and blades during procession in Peshawar 

Bloody scenes as Muslims flagellate themselves with chains and blades during procession in Peshawar GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING Photos taken on the streets of Peshawar, Pakistan show a group of Shiite Muslims completing self-flagellation  For Shiite Muslims involved in the ritual, it is believed that self-flagellation washes away all of their sins The procession marked Ashura … Read more

Shocking moment test pilot was nearly killed by hoverbike’s spinning rotor blades

Shocking moment test pilot was nearly killed by hoverbike’s spinning rotor blades when it crashed and flipped over during trial in Dubai An officer from United Arab Emirates law enforcement test drives the hoverbike  After a mechanical fault he is thrown under the bike and hit with spinning blades Dubai police had been testing the … Read more

‘Conspiracy theorists’ hide RAZOR blades and NEEDLES behind anti-5G posters

‘Conspiracy theorists’ are hiding RAZOR blades and NEEDLES behind anti-5G posters put up on phone masts in bid to stop authorities taking them down East Sussex council has warned people not to take down any anti-5G posters Comes after sharp objects were found underneath some of the flyers  Some conspiracy theorists blame the network for … Read more

Hundreds of non-recyclable fiberglass wind turbine blades are pictured piling up in landfill

Incredible photos have revealed the final resting place of massive wind turbine blades that cannot be recycled, and are instead heaped up in piles in landfills.  The municipal landfill in Casper, Wyoming, is the repository of at least 870 discarded blades, and one of the few locations in the country that accepts the massive fiberglass … Read more