1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (597+ words) Bedding plants in public parks and on road verges are the latest to fall victim to council biodiversity drives, new figures reveal. The colourful displays of blooms, which are usually replaced and replanted every year, are increasingly being scrapped because…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (1196+ words) By STEPHANIE CONDRON and RORY TINGLE, HOME AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT Residents are in uproar after cowboy parking operators dug up a field on the edge of their village to make an illegal park and ride. To the hundreds of holidaymakers booking…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (351+ words) By SOPHIA STANFORD, NEWS REPORTER A couple planning to build an eco-home in rural Wales told their local council they intend to breed and eat guinea pigs raised on their land. Dave and Mayu Phillips have been granted planning permission…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (426+ words) By JAMES TOZER, NORTHERN CORRESPONDENT The son of a 75-year-old farmer shot dead in his field has been charged with his manslaughter. Thomas Olverson was working on his farm in rural Lancashire on July 25, 2024 when he died of gunshot injuries....

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (1751+ words) By JANE FRYER FOR THE DAILY MAIL 'Welcome to the best tour in the world!’ Glenn, our GoTours guide, cries into the microphone as excitement builds and our minibus edges through the London traffic. There are 15 of us on board…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (1047+ words) By COLIN FERNANDEZ, ENVIRONMENT EDITOR and INDERDEEP BAINS, CHIEF NEWS CORRESPONDENT A devastating blaze has ravaged 1,000 acres of moorland in northern England - as experts warn Labour's rewilding drive risks fuelling a surge in catrastrophic wildfires. Multiple fire engines and two…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (709+ words) A farm business which supplies free range pork to major supermarket chains has admitted animal offences after undercover footage captured staff bludgeoning pigs. Norfolk Free Range, which is accredited by an RSPCA welfare scheme, provides meat to Waitrose, Tesco, Sainsbury’s,…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (150+ words) Jeremy Clarkson's girlfriend Lisa Hogan enjoyed a day out at Royal Ascot with her kids after the star revealed his 'aggressive' prostate cancer diagnosis. The former Top Gear host, 66, shared the news in the latest episodes of the fifth season…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (412+ words) A flock of sheep brought in to tidy up a graveyard have been aggressively ramming and headbutting mourners. The animals have been brought in to graze at Mount Road cemetery in St Asaph, North Wales, for over ten years. But…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (424+ words) A farm worker who was caught on undercover camera footage repeatedly kicking pigs and hitting them with a pitchfork is facing jail. The shocking footage made headlines two years ago following an undercover investigation by the Animal Justice Project. Woolger…...