22 h. ago Man taken to hospital after car hits garden wall in Kilmarnock

A 29-year-old man was taken to hospital after a white Volkswagen hit a garden wall in Kilmarnock on Friday morning, August 29

Events

3 d. ago Shocking moment driver launches her car off road and into garden wall after getting her high heels stuck on the accelerator

The shocking footage shot at around 1pm in Surrey on Wednesday on August 27 shows a white Toyota Yaris veering off the road.

Transport

7 d. ago Fantasy castle surrounded by woodland with walled garden, fountains, and café

This fantasy neo-Norman castle sits between Eryri and the Menai Strait and has formidable architecture and glorious gardens

Politics

1 week ago 'My neighbour built a wall in my garden but that's not even the worst part'

Having only moved a few months previously, a resident was annoyed after their neighbour decided to do something that involved taking up part of their garden - and that wasn't even the worst bit

Politics

2 w. ago 'Unusual' cottage for sale shrouded in manicured grounds that comes with a big surprise in the walled garden

It's enchanting, it's historic, and it's got some surprises

Politics

2 w. ago The Magician of Tiger Castle by Louis Sachar review – whimsical fantasy in a kingdom long, long ago

In this first adult novel from the acclaimed children’s author, an immortal magician returns to tell the story of a royal court where he cast his spells some 500 years beforeThe American author Louis Sachar’s most celebrated book, 1998’s YA novel Holes, was a huge word-of-mouth success on both sides of the Atlantic. Its short, punchy chapters tell the story of plump, hapless Stanley Yelnats, sent to a summer camp for wayward boys, where a terrifying Warden has peculiar ideas about character reformation. The 5ft-deep holes the boys are required to dig turn out to have a surprising purpose. Shifts of time, register and perspective render a simple premise mesmerisingly intricate. It has peril, love, crime, wickedness, redemption and friendship in, well, spades.A quarter of a century later, Sachar has written his first supposedly adult novel, in which many of the same ingredients reappear. A man “dressed like a typical American tourist”, but with an odd habit of storing cake crumbs in t...

Politics

3 w. ago Heroic mum who ran into house fire to rescue son, 2, issues sad update on pets

Vicki Keightley was at home with son Percy and their two dogs when she suddenly noticed smoke in the garden - and then a 'wall of orange flames' near the conservatory

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