6 d. ago We've been conned out of millions by the whisky barrel con artists: Police probe firms offering fantastical returns on barrels that are overpriced or do not exist

Victims have been duped into investing tens of thousands of pounds into casks which do not exist, are overpriced or have been sold to multiple people, a BBC investigation found.

Economics

8 d. ago Meghan Markle adds lucrative disclaimer to online shop selling products she endorses

Items include a £1,000 dress and £600 sandals as well as cheaper items

Politics

9 d. ago Time Travel is Dangerous review – likable mockumentary is Back to the Future meets Bargain Hunt

Real-life vintage shop owners Ruth Syratt and Megan Stevenson raid the past for sellable trinkets in this charmingly funny, quintessentially British comedyHere is a very silly and very likable British mockumentary, one that – like Ruth and Megan, the two real-life Muswell Hill vintage-shop mavens at its centre – lovingly mixes and matches multifarious styles. Director and co-writer Chris Reading adopts a little The Office deadpan, some Shaun of the Dead bathos, a heap of Terry Gilliam, and even shoplifts a shot from Wes Anderson. If the resulting low-budget assemblage still bears these nametags and has the odd stray thread showing, it also has a persistent charm of its own.The ChaChaCha vintage emporium (which really exists) is limping along until owners Ruth (Ruth Syratt) and Megan (Megan Stevenson) stumble on a time machine in the form of a souped-up bumper car – and thus an infinite supply of merchandise from whichever epoch they desire. It transpires the gizmo was invented by Ra...

Politics

1 week ago Inside Amelia Dimoldenberg's life from Andrew Garfield dating rumours to Chicken Shop

Ahead of her appearance on The Great Celebrity Bake Off: Stand Up 2 Cancer, let's take a peek into Amelia Dimoldenberg's life...

Politics

1 week ago Dad won £242m after returning 'overpriced' orange juice to shop in life

Tayeb Souami, an accountant from New Jersey, was told by his wife to return the $5 orange juice he'd bought from a local store - and the decision changed his life forever

Economics

2 w. ago Man returns 'overpriced' drink to shop after wife's order – decision makes him £242million

Tayeb Souami was an accountant who had to remortgage his home just days before his life changed forever – and he's reminded of it every time he drinks orange juice

Economics

2 w. ago Walsall fire: Child fighting for life after huge flat blaze above shop as five rushed to hospital

A child caught in a house fire in Walsall, in the West Midlands, was found to have suffered "potentially life-threatening injuries" - several other people are being treated in hospital

Events

3 w. ago Edwyn Collins: ‘Could an Orange Juice reunion ever be on the cards? No!’

The singer-songwriter on breaking up his band, recovering from a stroke, being too old to be a punk, and the chaos of recording with Mark E Smith In these deeply troubled, fractured, febrile times, why did you call the new record Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation? smileywombatIt was Grace’s choice [Grace Maxwell, his wife and musical collaborator]. Up in Helmsdale [in the Scottish Highlands], in my studio, I have an art deco radiogram speaker which has a sort of sunburst thing with that phrase written on it. For £60 on eBay – pristine! It was the BBC World Service motto. When we were casting about for a title for the new record, it seemed like a great expression. Grace said, if you’re going to call it that you have to write a song with that title. So I did.I very much enjoyed the new song Knowledge and the video, shot in Helmsdale. Do you like to travel much these days or are you pretty much happy at home? nogs09I like Helmsdale, and Grace loves it. When I was seven, eight years old, I...

Politics

4 w. ago Scots pop legend Edwyn Collins to quit touring as “age is catching up" with him

Collins, who shot to fame in 1980 with the Glasgow group Orange Juice, revealed he decided a run of dates in September and October will be his last because “age is catching up” with him.

Politics

4 w. ago Edwyn Collins created the mould when he burst on the Glasgow scene

Daily Record reporter John Dingwall say there was no scene until Orange Juice.

Politics