And Finally

At just 13 years old, Finlay Gallagher has made history as the UK’s youngest person to qualify as a digger driver — and it’s safe to say he’s digging into the family tradition.

Baffled police have freed a man who got stuck in a chimney while trying to rescue his dog from a locked toilet. The 35-year-old man was locked out of a park building in Connecticut on Saturday night when the doors automatically locked at 10pm.

Ewan McGregor has failed to obtain planning permission to replace the lead roof of his home in Perth and Kinross. 

Thousands of people have applied to work as "wild men" in one of China's most famous parks.

Canada's first-ever cheese curd catapult has been hailed as a massive success.

Port Glasgow’s proud seafaring heritage is being remembered and celebrated – in the form of LEGO bricks. Staff at Port Glasgow Library had been researching local hero Chippy McNish, the Port man who was part of the famous crew of Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition aboard the Enduran

A local campaign is seeking to save a church which inspired Lewis Grassic Gibbon's famous Scottish novel, Sunset Song. The Church of Scotland is trying to find a buyer for Arbuthnott Church in Aberdeenshire, which prominently appears in the novel.

A North London man who rents a room in a house shared with seven other people has won a life-changing prize worth £736,000 – including a luxury four-bedroom home and a brand-new BMW M4.

A chihuahua was rescued from a building destroyed by fire in Perth last month – after surviving for nearly two weeks in the damaged tenement. The puppy called Vilo, which means “to live” or “to thrive and flourish” in Slovakian, was feared killed in the Scott Street fir

A bizarre diamond-shaped roundabout has been removed after authorities received hundreds of complaints in just a few days.

The LEGO Group has donated 20,000 bricks to a charity initiative that will turn a London alleyway into a children's playground.

A major seaside resort with capacity for 20,000 people has been inaugurated on the eastern coast of North Korea.

A teenager has been appointed as interim leader of an English county council with an annual budget of over £400 million. Reform UK emerged as the largest party on Warwickshire County Council after the local elections in May, with 23 of the 57 seats.

An island off the west coast of Scotland, complete with a ruined 20th century castle, is on the market for £5.5 million.

A seagull took a sip of a maintenance worker's coffee before flying off with his mug. Darren Pardoe was bird-proofing houses in Porthleven, Cornwall, when he took a coffee break at a local pub on 3 June.