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.

London, July 28 : Scientists have determined that hairs picked up in thick forest in the Garo hills in the mountains of Meghalaya in north-east India five years ago, is the best evidence yet of the existence of the mythical creature known as ‘Yeti or ‘Bigfoot’.

According to a report in The Independent, tests at UK’s Oxford Brookes University on hairs which local people believe came from a yeti in the Indian jungle have failed to link them with any known species and are said to bear “a startling resemblance” to those brought back from the Himalayas by Sir Edmund Hillary half a century ago.

London, July 28 : Skeptics might claim that ‘aliens don’t exist’ but majority of people in the UK believe that the extraterrestrial life subsists, according to a survey.

The poll of more than 1,500 adults revealed that 43 per cent of the people believe in alien life compared to only 36 per cent who insist they do not.

Nine per cent of those polled are convinced they have seen a UFO.

Men and women are equally likely to believe, as are people living in different parts of the country, reports The Sun.

London, July 28 : Four giant panda cubs were born within 14 hours at a breeding centre in southwest China over the weekend.

The birth boom began on Saturday at the Chengdu Panda Breeding Research Centre when Qiyuan, a nine-year-old bear whose name means Magic Luck, gave birth to female twins at 5:24 pm and 6:16 pm, Xinhua News Agency reported.

Eight-year-old Chenggong, or Success, gave birth to a cub a little more than an hour later, followed by 8-year-old Zhuzhu, or Pearl, who gave birth at 6:55 am the following morning, the centre''s expert Yang Feifei said.

The breeding centre is currently raising 71 pandas in captivity.

The giant panda is revered as an unofficial national symbol of China.