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A culinary artist has crafted an iconic Marilyn Monroe artwork using Pop Tarts. The original portrait by Andy Warhol was a silk-screen, but Nathan Wyburn has paid tribute to the famous piece with over 120 Pop-Tarts, creating a vibrant mosaic.Working from his Cardiff studio, it took Nathan more than 10 hours to produce the stunning series of pieces inspired by the actress and the art movement that began in the 1950s.Warhol’s portrait of Monroe is one of the world’s priciest, selling for $195m in 2022, but this more modest version can be viewed at a pop-up exhibition in Bethnal Green,…

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been urged to launch a £10billion tax raid on motorists by charging them a fee for every mile they drive. Sir Tony Blair’s thinktank, the Tony Blair Institute (TBI), has said that the move is both necessary and urgent.Ms Reeves is currently exploring ways to meet a reported huge £40bn shortfall identified by the Treasury ahead of the Autumn Budget next week.The TBI said that a punishing tax raid on all road users – both electric cars and petrol and diesel users – would hand the Treasury around £10bn per year by the end of 2025.…

Cyclists could be forced to adhere to 20mph speed limits or be slapped with £2,500 fines.The charity that manages London’s Royal Parks has written to the government calling for new laws to make cyclists obey 20mph limit to ensure the safety of others.The Royal Parks charity looks after Regent’s Park, Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, Greenwich Park and many more.Cyclists, it claimed, were causing serious injuries, fatal in some cases. These could be mitigated if their speeds could be controlled, the charity claims.According to a report in The Telegraph, the charity wants the speed limit to be enforceable with prosections.Loyd Grossman,…

As all the world knows by now, the IDF has eliminated Hamas terrorist leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza. It hardly came as a surprise. He had been a dead man walking for many years.Sinwar only took over as leader of Hamas a matter of weeks ago after the assassination of then leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on 31 July this year. No-one has claimed responsibility for Haniyeh’s death but it is widely assumed the Israelis did it. They have not commented.Sinwar was no stranger to conflict with Israel. Born in the Khan Younis refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, he…

Keir Starmer could face demands to hand over £18 trillion ($24tn) in slavery reparations this week, as he faces a furious Commonwealth showdown in Samoa.The Prime Minister insists he’s focussed on current and future issues rather than the past, but senior leaders in the Caribbean and other countries appear intent on pushing the issue at this year’s CHOGM summit.With the row now raging, a 2023 report into exactly how much the UK could be expected to pay out has resurfaced, backed by a senior UN judge.The report, published last year by the University of West Indies and backed by judge…

Detectives probing the deaths of three elderly residents at a care home, today released under investigation a 60-year-old woman – after questioning her on suspicion of manslaughter.Dorset Police quizzed the woman overnight after arresting her following the discovery of the three bodies at Gainsborough Care Home in Swanage on Wednesday morning.The three dead, who have not been named, were two men aged 91 years and 74 and an 86-year-old woman, police revealed.A further seven elderly residents at the home were taken to hospital after a ‘major incident’ was declared following the call to the emergency services at 7.16am on Wednesday.Four…

Meghan is said to have reportedly asked, “Don’t I have a voice?” at a royal event in 2020, which she attended with her husband Prince Harry, according to Mail on Sunday columnist Sarah Sands.The incident is said to have happened at an event with the Prince and Princess of Wales.Ms Sands said that it was at that moment that Meghan “icily” muttered the question under her breath, and was heard only by those within earshot.The expert claimed: “Meghan’s ‘ordeal’ in Britain was, to her mind, the subjugation of her voice.“A colleague who was at a broadcast by the Royal Family’s…

Archaeologists in Europe made a staggering discovery of an 8,000-year-old house believed to have belonged to some of the continent’s first settlers.Researchers at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) in Svinjarička Čuka, Serbia discovered the house and they hope it can provide insights into Europe’s earliest settlers and agricultural societies. The building was made out of wattle and daub – wooden strips and twigs covered in clay – and wooden posts. It had been remarkably preserved despite the fact it once caught on fire. The group called the find “extraordinary”.Barbara Horejs, scientific director of the ÖAW’s Austrian Archaeological Institute, said: “The…

The Met Police is hunting a “lone male” after a young girl was allegedly raped in a horrifying attack before school.Scotland Yard detectives have launched an urgent investigation in Hillingdon, west London, after the alleged victim, who is under the age of 16, reported being raped in Hayes End Park at around 6.40am on Wednesday morning.Writing on X last night, a spokesperson for the force said: “An urgent investigation, supported by specialists from across the Met, is under way following a rape this morning in Hayes End Park Further details below.”Anyone with information, please call 101 ref 1814/23oct. To remain…

British politics is rotten to the core, with deceit, sleaze, and hypocrisy now woven into its very fabric.The political class that occupies Westminster today is more detached from the electorate than ever before. It’s no longer shocking to expect underhand deals or moral bankruptcy from our so-called leaders. We only need to look back at the pandemic, a national crisis that exposed the utter disdain politicians have for the public. Dodgy contracts for Tory cronies, lockdowns enforced with draconian penalties while our leaders brazenly partied at Number 10. The hypocrisy was staggering.Some Brits followed those rules with heartbreaking devotion, unable…