5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (471+ words) Groups of youths using catapults are "lamping" and killing sleeping parakeets in a south-east London park, an animal rescue worker has warned. Rae Gellel, director of the Greenwich Wildlife Network, said 43 ring-necked parakeets have been recovered dead from Priory Gardens…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (528+ words) The community in Shoreham, West Sussex, has paid its respects to a family who died after getting into difficulty in the sea on Tuesday. Hassan El-Khawas, 55, Zeina Alayn, 37, and their 14-year-old daughter Sara, died despite the efforts of paramedics at…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (171+ words) One lane on part of the A14 is expected to remain closed throughout Thursday after a lorry caught fire. The road was shut eastbound between junctions 33 for Cambridge and 37 for Newmarket, Suffolk on Wednesday evening. In a social media update at…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago   (496+ words) The family of a mother who was killed after her ex-partner forced his way into the house she was in with explosives say she made the "ultimate sacrifice" by placing herself "between danger and those she loved". Joanne Shaw, 35, died…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (255+ words) Lancashire women who risked their lives to make ammunition during World War Two have been commemorated on the site where more than 25,000 of them were conscripted. An information board has been unveiled at Buckshaw Village in Chorley, on the site…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (413+ words) A mother said her life and that of her teenage son's were likely saved by her fire alarm. Emma Parker, 45, was upstairs at her home in Haddon Way, St Ives, when she heard the alarm beeping after being triggered by…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (377+ words) A care service providing help to people in their homes has been judged as requiring improvement after concerns were raised. Inspectors who visited House of the Flame Lily, in Penn Road, Wolverhampton, found the service was in breach of five…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago   (597+ words) A care home resident was left alone in a chair at a breakfast table for nine hours without support, inspectors have revealed. The failing is included in a Care Quality Commission (CQC) report into Restgarth Care Home in Polperro, Cornwall…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago   (511+ words) A boat belonging to a sailor who vanished while sailing around the world had knife cuts and "clear signs of a disturbance", his family claimed. James "Jemsie" Nunan, from Colchester, with links to Reading, was last seen on the Spanish…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago   (502+ words) A midwife is offering a £15,000 reward for information leading to the discovery of her missing dog Dawn Littler, 51, from Whitefield in Bury, is offering the cash to anyone who can help find her female Cavapoo, Frankie - who bolted from playing…...