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MIDGE-AGEDDON! Horrified camper films from inside his tent after being trapped by swarm of flying critters that thrived over the hot and wet summer Alex Nail, 33, intended to photograph sunset in the Highlands but was unable to The photographer was trapped in his tent by a swarm of millions of midges He recorded the … Read more
A hiker shared shared skin-crawling footage showing the ‘worst swarm of midges he has seen in 20 years’. Dr Alan Mackie, from Edinburgh, was camping at Gleann an t-Slugain, Aberdeenshire, when he was set upon by the mass of midges. The footage, taken on Friday morning shows Alan’s tent besieged by thousands of the blood-sucking mites. … Read more
Holidaymakers had a lucky escape from death after a car plunged 20ft over a cliff and landed on their beach tent. A driver failed to take a corner and lost control of a black car, hurtling 20ft over a cliff on to Mawgan Porth beach, near Newquay in Cornwall, on August 6, much to horror of … Read more
Seattle’s ‘occupied’ CHOP zone features a fleet of tents, a street renamed after George Floyd, an abandoned police building covered in Black Lives Matter slogans – and an armed man carrying a coffee cup. The encampment known as the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest is hailed by its supporters as an ‘ideal society’ where people help … Read more
Land Rover has marketed its all-new Defender as the rugged, go-anywhere, SUV and now you can sleep overnight wherever you plan to take it. The car maker has co-developed a bespoke roof tent for the new Defender 110 model – which starts from £45,240 – that pops out of a roof box and can sleep … Read more
Photographs of plastic coverings and squalid tents lining Los Angeles’ freeways’s on and off ramps have shown the shocking extent of the homeless crisis in the city – as city and county officials row over who will pay to disperse the 7,000 people living in the roadside encampments. An order issued last week by US … Read more
My Kitchen Rules judge Pete Evans and his wife Nicola Robinson live a new age, country life on their farm in northern NSW. And it seems the couple will be enjoying a night out under the stars on their remote 10-hectare property near Round Mountain. On Friday, the former glamour model, 42, posted an image … Read more
Homeless people on the streets of San Francisco have been pictured gathering dangerously close together amid the coronavirus pandemic. Images show how the community on the city’s Tenderloin Street are struggling to social distance after the COVID-19 outbreak, with many tents crowded together in spots and people even grouping together to drink and take drugs … Read more
An NHS doctor volunteering to treat coronavirus patients was left homeless after he was evicted by his landlord and told to live in a tent. Consultant geriatrician Vincent Okafor, 57, said his landlord thought he might be infected and bring the killer bug into the property. He was given five days’ notice to vacate his … Read more
Telecoms engineer moves into garden TENT as he self-isolates to protect 21-year-old family member with chronic asthma amid coronavirus lockdown Engineer John has moved into a garden tent in Thornaby-on-Tees for his family He works in Chelmsford but lives in their North Yorkshire home between jobs His wife’s daughter Tasha, 21, has chronic asthma and is … Read more