Silly horse escapes and slips into pool

Hilarious security footage from 2019 has emerged - showing the moment a horse on the loose fell into its owner's pool. Luckily, the panicking animal was quickly pulled out of the water.

Latest stories

  • Face mask with at least two layers is effective, says health official

    US President Joe Biden has been pictured wearing two face coverings at once.

  • Channel migrants seeking UK asylum are smuggling themselves back to France, says charity

    Channel migrants seeking asylum in the UK are smuggling themselves back to France because of Priti Patel’s crackdown, says a UK charity. Care4Calais has revealed the case of an Iranian who came to Britain on a small boat but has since managed to return to Dunkirk after becoming disillusioned with his experience in the controversial Napier barracks used to house Channel migrants in Folkestone, Kent. He told volunteers working for the charity that he had smuggled himself back to France on a lorry. “England does not have any law,” he told them. “I don’t have a good memory of the place. It is broken from the inside.” Napier barracks was at the centre of a near-riot when migrants being kept on the former military base after an outbreak of Covid-19 went on the rampage and set fire to buildings in protest at the Home Office’s refusal to move them to a hotel. The Home Secretary has been under pressure to close down the barracks as an asylum centre, including from local Tories because of the conditions, location and spartan regime. Care4Calais’s founder Clare Moseley also disclosed that two young men from El Salvador who had come to the UK to seek asylum had also applied to the Home Office to be repatriated, but had been told there was a waiting list before they could be returned home. “Their father is in the military and the family was being pursued by terrorist and criminal groups so he sent them to England, but they are now stuck in Manchester. All they want to do is work and don’t like relying on the state,” said Ms Moseley. She blamed the increasingly tough restrictions and hostility that the migrants faced for their decisions to seek to leave the UK. The Government is seeking to deter illegal migrants from making the perilous journey across the Channel through increased patrols and surveillance on French beaches and a tougher approach to asylum. A new law, introduced after Brexit, makes any migrant’s asylum claim inadmissible if they have been in a safe third country before their arrival in the UK. This weekend it emerged that Ms Patel is drawing up plans for smugglers to face life sentences, rather than the current maximum of 14 years. A policy paper due this month is expected to tighten up what ministers claim is the “broken” asylum system by placing curbs on “litigious” human rights claimants who seek to delay their deportation and encourage judges to take a tougher stance against asylum seekers with criminal records.

  • Support for Keir Starmer plunges to new low, poll suggests

    Public support for Sir Keir Starmer has fallen to its lowest level since he was elected Labour leader, new polling suggests. A survey released by Deltapoll on Monday found that Sir Keir’s net approval rating has crashed to zero, with Boris Johnson now enjoying a 10 per cent cushion over the opposition leader. While the significant decline in Mr Johnson’s own standing in the middle of the pandemic coincided with a steady level of support for Sir Keir, their fortunes have since reversed as the covid-19 vaccines have rolled out. Between 21-23 January and 24-26 February, Sir Keir’s approval rating has tumbled from 14 per cent, while Mr Johnson’s rating has increased from 1 per cent to 10 per cent. Sir Keir is now 12 per cent down on his approval rating on 23 April, shortly after he saw off the pro-Corbyn MP Rebecca Long-Bailey and moderate rival Lisa Nandy to secure the Labour leadership. The findings come amid mounting tensions within Labour over the party’s approach during the pandemic, with Sir Keir facing claims from the hard-Left that his “constructive” opposition is failing to cut through with the public. Read more: What is the point of this vacuous and confused Labour Party?

  • Giuliani suspended from YouTube over election conspiracies again, days after returning to platform

    Giuliani is facing a $2.7 billion lawsuit from a voting technology company for spreading election conspiracies

  • Royal Family has 'more important things to worry about' than Sussexes' interview as Prince Philip moves hospitals

    The Royal Family has "more important things to worry about" than the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Oprah Winfrey interview, Buckingham Palace aides said on Monday night, as the Duke of Edinburgh was transferred to a leading cardiac hospital. Prince Philip, 99, was taken by ambulance from the private King Edward VII’s Hospital to St Bartholomew’s Hospital in central London just hours after a dramatic clip of the Sussexes’ “shocking” comments was released by a US television network. The timing of the couple’s interview was described as “unfortunate” amid speculation about whether it might have to be pulled. Palace aides suggested that the family’s focus was solely on the Duke, who had already spent 13 nights in hospital and is expected to remain there until at least the end of the week. One said: “The family is very worried about him and their thoughts are very much with him rather than this Oprah interview. They have much more important things to worry about.” Another senior aide said: “This programme is really not something we are focusing on at the moment.”

  • Real-world data on Pfizer and Oxford vaccines is ‘stunning’, scientist says

    Professor Andrew Pollard said leaders around Europe, where around 5,000 people are dying every day from Covid, will take note of the findings.

  • Covid news - live: ‘Unrealistic’ to think crisis will be over by end of 2021 as France U-turns on Oxford jab

    Follow the latest updates and statistics

  • Mother and daughter die after 11 family members catch Covid meeting on Christmas Day

    Their family has already raised more than £15,200 in charity for hospital services

  • Biden news – live: Trump accused of ‘hiding’ Covid vaccine as president tries to repair Mexico relations

    Trump received the Covid-19 vaccine privately before leaving the White House

  • Meghan is nothing like Diana but The Crown effect is changing all that

    On Sunday evening, the world was presented with two not unrelated televisual events. In the first, CBS, the US television network that will broadcast Oprah Winfrey’s interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, released a tantalising trailer of its big tell-all released next weekend – in which Prince Harry noted that his biggest fear has been “history repeating itself”. Lest his message be insufficiently clear, he added: “I can’t begin to imagine what it must have been like for her going through this process by herself all those years ago,” while the screen revealed a picture of a toddler Harry with his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales.

  • I took the government to court over its Covid restrictions on pubs – this is why

    We have wound up our court case following the judgement that the substantial meal restriction imposed on wet-led pubs was arguably discriminatory towards certain sections of society

  • France reverses stance on Oxford Covid jab which Macron labelled ‘quasi-ineffective’

    France earlier said the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab could only be used by people under 65 and without underlying health conditions

  • The One Show's Alex Jones says Matt Baker is "really happy" since leaving the show

    The presenter also opened up about her numerous co-hosts this year.

  • Biden news: Trump ‘got vaccine while president’, as New York AG set to probe Cuomo harassment claims

    Latest updates from Washington DC and beyond

  • Motorist With Umbrella Fights Skateboarder Outside London School

    A photographer in London witnessed as schoolyard scrap of an unusual kind on March 1, when a disgruntled driver and a skateboarder traded blows at the gates of a school.Thomas Butler, who recorded the footage, told Storyful that the “driver of the car almost hit the skater” and things escalated from there.As the car pulls in at the gates of the Riverstone School, the skateboarder hits the bumper with his board. The driver then gets out, and grabs an umbrella before confronting the boarder. The umbrella is soon dropped, as the boarder gets the upper hand.Butler told Storyful he stopped filming and went to break up the fight. The driver was left battered and bloody, Butler said, and drove away. Police arrived some time later, Butler said. Credit: Thomas Butler via Storyful

  • Latest weekly Covid-19 rates for local authority areas in England

    Corby, Leicester and Fenland are currently recording the highest rates.

  • Nicola Coughlan hits back at podcast host who called her ‘the fat girl from Bridgerton’ during Golden Globes

    Irish actor wore a yellow Molly Goddard dress and black cardigan to the virtual award ceremony

  • France approves AstraZeneca vaccine for over-65s despite Emmanuel  Macron's efficacy claims

    People aged over 65 with existing health problems can be given the AstraZeneca vaccine, France's health minister said on Monday, departing from the government's earlier stance that the vaccine should be for under-65s only. When the AstraZeneca vaccine was approved for use by European Union regulators, France mandated it would only go to eligible people under 65 because data from trials in older age groups was limited. President Emmanuel Macron has claimed the AstraZeneca vaccine was "quasi-ineffective" for over-65s and on Monday Canada's advisory body on vaccines said the jab was not recommended for that age group due to a lack of research. But new data on the effectiveness of the AstraZeneca vaccine has "vindicated" the UK's decision to roll it out to older age groups, England's deputy chief medical officer has said. Professor Jonathan Van-Tam said the UK's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) had taken the view that it was "not immunologically plausible" the vaccine would work in younger age groups and not older ones. A new study from Public Health England (PHE) suggests a single dose of the Pfizer or Oxford vaccine offers dramatic protection against hospital admission and severe disease in older people. The World Heath Organisation has also recommended the jab for over-65s.

  • The ‘extraordinary’ statistic that shows the success of the UK’s vaccine rollout

    The sharp drop in fatalities among people aged over 75 suggests the COVID vaccine rollout is already having an impact.

  • More than seven million people in the UK living in areas with negligible Covid cases

    More than seven million people in the UK are living in areas where cases of Covid-19 have almost disappeared, analysis by The Telegraph has revealed. Hundreds of neighbourhoods across the country recorded close to zero cases last week, despite being under national lockdown restrictions. Cases have fallen so low in many areas that Public Health England has deliberately “suppressed” data to protect the tiny number of infected people from being shamed on social media. On Monday night, MPs suggested that slides shown at Downing Street press conferences were failing to communicate that the virus has nearly disappeared across large swathes of the country. Latest figures show that 971 of 6,791 local areas across England recorded fewer than three Covid-19 cases in the seven days up to Feb 23. Around 7.3 million people live in these neighbourhoods, or 13 per cent of the total population. Areas reporting between zero and two cases are marked by NHS England as “suppressed”, meaning the true number of positive tests is withheld. Official guidance states this is to prevent the small number of infected people from being publicly shamed due to their “rarity or uniqueness”. Across the country, around a third of rural MSOAs (or Middle Layer Super Output Areas, a geographic hierarchy designed to improve the reporting of small area statistics) are now marked as "suppressed", including large parts of Cornwall, Devon and Wiltshire.