8 h. ago Amusement park dating back 100 years to shut down with owners describing it as the 'end of an era'

The rides will run for the final time in October after first thrilling visitors in 1918. The funfair offers many attractions, including dodgems, go karts and water slides.

Politics

8 h. ago Popular UK theme park to shut its gates for final time after 100 years of fun

A family run amusement park has shut down after running for more than 100 years – the family have taken to social media to release a heartbreaking statement as the park shuts its doors forever

Politics

26 h. ago LGBT veterans compensation to be sped up after fury at 'painfully slow' process

Around 20,000 armed forces personnel were jailed, dismissed or outed against their will before the rule on service was lifted in 2000, described by Veterans Minister Al Carns as a 'truly dark era'

Politics

28 h. ago Porthcawl's beloved Coney Beach amusement park to close within months

The announcement was made with 'heavy hearts'

Politics

47 h. ago Kim Jong Un's North Korean dystopian water park as locals appear 'forced to have fun'

Hundreds of North Koreans were picture seemingly enjoying themselves in the Wonsan-Kalma eastern coastal tourist zone's new beach, water park and amusement area

Politics

1 week ago Drum and bass festival goer, 21, dies at event 'shut down for being too hot'

Organisers of the event at Dreamland Margate, an amusement park in Kent, announced on social media that it was forced to 'close early' as 'it was just too hot today'.

Events

2 w. ago 'Cursed' ghost town theme park in the hills lies abandoned with chilling explanation

The once-bustling amusement park is now an eerie bastion of faded splendour

Politics

2 w. ago ‘Youths everywhere were spitting over tinny beats playing off a Nokia’: great grime photographer Simon Wheatley

He was young and broke when he became grime’s first documentarian. Then his book Don’t Call Me Urban captured the energy of the grittier first wave – and an expanded edition is finally hereIt’s an overcast Thursday morning, and photographer Simon Wheatley is doing a soft-shoe shuffle through Roman Road in Bow, east London, as a market stall blares out exquisite 70s funk. “That’s more like it,” he says, with a grin on his face. “A bit of energy.” This was once grime’s artery, its chaotic central hub, even its muse – a street Wiley once told me was “the nurturer” of local talents like him and Dizzee Rascal. And it was here, in the 2000s, that Wheatley would create a vivid and intimate document of grime in its frenzied flush of youth, and of working-class neighbourhoods like this before they became considerably more sedate. Fourteen years after the release of Don’t Call Me Urban, Wheatley’s long-sold-out photo-book from that era – once described by Vice as “grime’s Old Testament” – it ...

Culture

3 w. ago Where is my Nationwide £100 bonus? Dates and eligibility explained as first payments arrive

Even more customers are eligible for the £100 payment this year

Economics

3 w. ago Eerie theme park left to rot has dark secret lying in one of its crumbling rides

A once thriving theme park, which attracted millions of visitors in its heyday, is now a ghost town - but not only that the abandoned amusement park also has a dark secret.

Politics

3 w. ago It’s not just the noise: Cicadas are overrunning an amusement park and are taking the blame for a car crash

Brood 14 is emerging across portions of the eastern U.S., and will likely be a present nuisance for the next few weeks

Events