Storms are most often named when potentially damaging winds are forecast, but can also be named for flooding rain or disruptive snow. They were first named to help bring public attention to episodes of severe weather, to help people prepare to avoid the worst impacts by planning ahead. In ...
An inquest at Doncaster Coroner’s Court on Thursday heard that Chapman had died of “multiple traumatic injuries”. Chapman had attended the park at about 13:30 BST on Saturday, climbed over two fences and entered the tiger enclosure. After the attack, park staff secured th...
Yorkshire Wildlife Park has reopened for the first time since a man was killed by a tiger in an enclosure. William Chapman, 24, was mauled to death at the park near Doncaster on Saturday. The public were evacuated after the incident with the attraction closed since then. An inquest that op...
Educational and child psychologist Dr Sasha Hall, who’s mum to a three-year-old boy and five-year-old girl, says the first thing to understand is that this scenario is “completely normal”. “Unfortunately it’s going to happen to all our children at some point i...
At about 18:00, Foster, his father-in-law and son walked towards an elevator and was playing with his son, said his lawyer, Alexandros Alexandrou. The court was told that as they approached the lift, the boy noticed a waterpark outside. It was said that Foster pushed the lift button, place...
On 21 October 1966, as a primary school and surrounding homes in Aberfan were engulfed by slurry from a collapsed coal tip, a dinner lady was collecting money from pupils. Within moments, 144 people were dead, including 116 children, on what was the last day of class at Pantglas Junior Sch...
Online pornography depicting strangulation or incestuous relationships will be banned from early November, the government has announced. From 6 November, it will be illegal to possess or publish porn which shows strangulation or suffocation, depicts sexual activity between people who are r...
Jess Bacon does all her clothes shopping online. As a plus-size woman, she finds the size ranges available in stores unreliable. “The sizing in store is notoriously bad. I find it quite demoralising in store,” she says. “The average size woman in the UK is a size 14 or a ...
Swimmer Archie Goodburn has been successful in his efforts to improve brain cancer care for patients as the UK government announce new measures. The Scottish athlete, who was diagnosed with three inoperable brain tumours two years ago, met Prime Minister Andy burnout after making an emotio...
Taking the stage at Plaid Cymru’s first conference in government, cabinet minister for Education Anna Brychan’s assessment was more blunt than a month earlier, when the Pisa results came out. Speaking in Welsh, she called them “brawychus” – roughly translated ...