London - A huge fire Monday threatened to destroy a landmark pier in the seaside town of Weston-super-Mare in south-west Britain, rescue services said.

London - India's Tata Motors group, which owns British luxury car maker Jaguar and Land Rover, has said it plans to revive the super-luxury Daimler brand to appeal to wealthy customers from Asia, Russia and the Middle East.

Ratan Tata, head of the Indian conglomerate, has told investors of his plan to resurrect the Daimler marque in direct competition with luxury brands Bentley and Rolls-Royce, Britain's Times newspaper reported Monday.

Tata had earmarked 1 billion pounds (2 billion dollars) to develop new models at its British-based manufacturers, the report said.

London, July 28 : Former call girl Xaviera Hollander, who was deported from America after writing a bestseller about her life as New York’s most successful madame, is back in business, only this time, she’s managing a Dutch bed and breakfast.

People started knowing about her after her appearance in ‘The Happy Hooker’.

“I’m 65 and my boobs are hanging but I’ve just married this man 10 years younger than me. I’m having a great time,” Times Online quoted her as saying in Amsterdam.

The report also suggests that Xaviera’s walls are adorned by erotic art and photography.

London, July 28 : The top position in a poll for Britain''s favourite toy has been ‘blocked’ by Lego - almost 50 years after it was introduced to the UK markets.

The poll, conducted by catalogue store Argos to celebrate its 35th birthday, took into account the top toys since 1973 and named the Danish bricks as the most favourite toy in the country.

Argos interviewed more than 1,000 people aged 16 and above from around the country in its poll on the nation''s favourite toy.

Thought a total of 56pct respondents rated Lego as their childhood favourite, it was Scalextric that they always longed for but never got.

London, July 28 : Archaeologists have discovered the unique grave of a 2,000-year-old Iron Age warrior in the trenches of a new housing development in North Bersted in the UK.

According to a report in Portsmouth Today, the discovery is thought to indicate a burial site unique in the UK – and so important that the find was kept under wraps until the delicate process of moving the remains to a laboratory had been completed.

Archaeologists believe that the remains, from between 40 AD and 60 AD, are of a wealthy man in his 30s who was either a highly decorated soldier or a member of an extremely important family, maybe even a prince.

London, July 28 : Cambridge University’s poorest-funded college – Selwyn -- has topped the colleges'' degree results.

According to The Independent, the college, which is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year, has moved from fourth to first place in the table compiled annually by Peter Tompkins, a consulting actuary who is a former student of Trinity College.