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Off his trolley

Off his trolley

Engineers have developed a robotic shopping trolley for elderly customers based on a drawing by a boy who simply wanted to help his gran. Aidan McCann, 13, dreamed up a push cart with height adjustmen ...
Rolling back the years

Rolling back the years

This super-fit 75-year-old great granddad puts his impressive physique down to “hard graft” – and rock and roll dancing. Buff Bill Jones might be well into his eighth decade but he still looks s ...
Comparing costs with 90 years ago

Comparing costs with 90 years ago

Since Queen Elizabeth II was born, in 1926, the bank interest rate was 5% and there were only 500,000 mortgages held compared with 11.1m today. Things have changed so much, to put it into context the ...