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Sunday 6 November 2016

'I LASTED FIVE MINUTES BEFORE I FLED IN FEAR' Our reporter took a terrifying trip to house in Pontefract that was abandoned in the 1970s

SITTING on the narrow single bed as the wind howls outside, it doesn’t take a lot to imagine the terrors that led a family to run from this home, leaving almost everything behind.

Terrified visitors have called it the “bedroom of Hell” — and after visiting to see for myself how spooky it was, I lasted just FIVE MINUTES before I fled in fear.Number 30 East Drive seems like an ordinary semi-detached 1950s house on an unremarkable road.

But whatever now dwells there draws the curious to walk through its smart white front door in

Pontefract, West Yorks, and straight into what some have called “unbelievable evil”.
Jean Pritchard and her family were the last people to call this place home back in August 1966. They fled five years later.read more

cat facts

climb 30,681 objects,stroled 35,795 times in average life span of 14 years. spend 9 months staring out of windows ,6 months grooming themselves,like basking in the sun and spending time playing with other cats.

The UK's top 20 most-watched television programmes

This week marks the 80th anniversary of the first official broadcast on British television and to mark the occasion, a list of the most-watched TV programmes has been compiled.

At the top of the list is Only Fools and Horses, with more than 24 million people tuning in to watch David Jason's Del Boy finally become a millionaire on 29 December 1996. The show features three more times in the rankings, including two other shows from Christmas 1996.

In second place is a November 1979 episode of To the Manor Born, starring Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles.

Other programmes include Coronation Street and Martin Bashir's 1995 Panorama interview with Princess Diana, in which she discussed Prince Charles's extra-marital affairs.read more

Saturday 5 November 2016

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help save the African elephants

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THE STORY OF THE POPPY The inspiration behind the poppy as a symbol of Remembrance.

During the First World War (1914–1918) much of the fighting took place in Western Europe. Previously beautiful countryside was blasted, bombed and fought over, again and again. The landscape swiftly turned to fields of mud: bleak and barren scenes where little or nothing could grow.

Bright red Flanders poppies (Papaver rhoeas) however, were delicate but resilient flowers and grew in their thousands, flourishing even in the middle of chaos and destruction. In early May 1915, shortly after losing a friend in Ypres, a Canadian doctor, Lt Col John McCrae was inspired by the sight of poppies to write a now famous poem called 'In Flanders Fields'.

McCrae’s poem inspired an American academic, Moina Michael, to make and sell red silk poppies which were brought to England by a French woman, Anna Guérin. The (Royal) British Legion, formed in 1921, ordered 9 million of these poppies and sold them on 11 November that year. The poppies sold out almost immediately and that first ever 'Poppy Appeal' raised over £106,000; a considerable amount of money at the time. This was used to help WW1 veterans with employment and housing.

The following year, Major George Howson set up the Poppy Factory to employ disabled ex-Servicemen. Today, the factory and the Legion's warehouse in Aylesford produces millions of poppies each year.read more