The Pigeon Express
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their children are moving from Kensington Palace in west London to a cottage on the Queen’s Windsor Estate. Their new home, Adelaide Cottage, is a 10-minute walk from Windsor Castle. It marks a new chapter according to their friends, an attempt to ensure as normal an upbringing as […]
The oldest penguin in Edinburgh zoo has been killed after a fox broke into its enclosure, staff have announced. Mrs Wolowitz, 35, a northern rockhopper with a “massive personality”, was attacked late on Wednesday. Other penguins in the enclosure were not hurt and were doing well, the zoo added. The zoo in a tweet said: […]
A mum and her two children have been attacked by a dog, with the supposed owner arrested for allegedly assaulting a third child. One onlooker reportedly claimed they saw a woman and two boys ‘covered in blood and bite marks’ following the ‘domestic’ incident in Derbyshire, England. The mother, in her 20s, is said to […]
The Met Office has issued a four-day amber extreme heat warning, meaning vulnerable people’s health could be impacted and travel could be disrupted. The warning applies to southern and central England and parts of Wales from midnight on Thursday until Sunday. The amber alert is the longest the Met Office has issued since it introduced […]
At least 500,000 learners are waiting for their driving test in the United Kingdom. In May 2021 there was a backlog of 496,124, but by May this year that had grown to 530,387. It means the average waiting time for a test slot is 14 weeks, although there are reports of learners waiting up to […]
An 11-year-old girl has died after going missing at a water sports and activity park. Police were called to the lake at Liquid Leisure Windsor in Datchet, Berkshire at 3.55pm local time on Saturday after the child got into difficulty. She was found more than an hour later by emergency services and was rushed to […]
Two of the UK’s leading hospitals have had to cancel operations, postpone appointments and divert seriously ill patients to other centres for the past three weeks after their computers crashed at the height of last month’s heatwave. The IT breakdowns at Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals in London have caused misery for doctors and patients […]
The starting point of England’s famous River Thames has dried up and moved downstream, following weeks of little rainfall and a heat wave in July that smashed the UK’s all-time temperature record. The Thames usually begins in the English market town of Cirencester, part of the green and hilly Cotswolds countryside, and flows through the […]
A man who stabbed a burglar to death after seeing him breaking into his home via a video doorbell has been jailed. Jordan Brophy, 31, and three others targeted the home of Karl Townsend in Halewood on 29 October 2021 while he and his family were out. Liverpool Crown Court heard the 32-year-old saw the […]
A professional mountain biker who flew to the United States for a competition arrived empty handed after his £10,000 bike went missing on the flight. When James Anderson, from Denbighshire, arrived in Baltimore, he discovered his wheels had gone walkabout. It is thought his equipment went missing when the flight from Manchester stopped at Dublin. […]
A tiny Scottish island in the Firth of Clyde has gone on sale for £350,000. The isle of Pladda, off the coast of Arran, includes a five-bedroom house, a helipad and lighthouse dating back to the 1790s. It has an asking price that could buy a three-bedroom flat in Glasgow or Edinburgh. It is well […]
A community has come together to help the owners of a corner shop whose entire stock of chocolate melted. Ellis Stores in Scunthorpe lost about £1,000 worth of goods after its air conditioning failed to cope during the recent heatwave. An online appeal by Claire York, the daughter of the shop’s owners Stephen and Linda […]