Breaking News, World Updates & Headlines
Breaking News, World Updates & Headlines
National Trust says latest figures encouraging – with numbers of birds on the rise – but work still to be doneEngland’s most important tern colonies are showing signs of recovery after being hit by years of bird flu, flooding and increasingly unpredict…
Read MoreExclusive: Dog Painting 17 is believed to be one of only six of works from Dog Series in private hands and first to be auctionedDavid Hockney adored his dachshunds Stanley and Boodgie and let them run riot – so much so that after one had an accident in…
Read MoreOne other person being treated in hospital after fire crews respond to early-hours incident at home in BootleA woman and three children have died after an overnight fire ripped through a semi-detached house on Merseyside.The Merseyside fire and rescue …
Read More‘Terrible thing’ happened to infant boy found wrapped in 1910 newspaper at Bishop Auckland property, says coronerA baby boy who was found with twine looped and knotted round his neck and wrapped in a 116-year-old newspaper was unlawfully killed, a coro…
Read MoreFive jailed after targeting victim and subjecting him to ordeal linked to past relationship breakdownDramatic footage shows a kidnapped man jumping from a first-floor window into a tree before running into the street and, by chance, coming across a pol…
Read MoreLabour’s Andy McDonald says gangs ‘clearly featuring’ in a series of incidents and police are underfundedFive MPs on Teesside have called on the government to provide more help to local police and fire services after a week in which nine people have di…
Read MoreNatalie McDonald, 34, and Valentina Foster, seven, died in fire less than mile from A66 crash, with police not ruling out linksA woman who died in a house fire along with her seven-year-old niece has been described as “a beautiful soul”.Natalie McDonal…
Read MoreMurder inquiry launched after blaze in Grangetown area, amid investigation into collision in which seven died A murder investigation has been launched after two people were killed in a house fire in Middlesbrough, with police not ruling out links to or…
Read MoreEmotional tributes paid to PCs Matthew Blades and Tom Clough whose vehicle was in a head-on collision with car travelling wrong wayCleveland police have published photographs of PC Matthew Blades and PC Tom Clough who died when a car travelling the wro…
Read MoreThe Light aims to bring art of international significance to north-east EnglandWorks by Tracey Emin, Steve McQueen and Olafur Eliasson have gone on display at a new contemporary art gallery and museum in north-east England which aims to show works of i…
Read More‘Emma’ the Rotherham chatbot has 17 languages says AI firm – but health watchdog says system struggling with local ‘twangs’Patients in a South Yorkshire town are frustrated by an AI GP receptionist not understanding their “broad accents”, a health watc…
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