Nick Miles has said he feels ‘heartbroken and depressed’ every time he sees burning moorland near his home in the Yorkshire Dales. The Emmerdale star, 58, who plays Jimmy King on the soap, also called for a ban on the ‘archaic’ practice during an interview with The Mirror. Moorland is often burnt to encourage fresh … Read more
IT is 9am in Chingford, a leafy suburb in Essex. The locals are only just clambering out of their beds to start the weekend but in her ‘pain cave’, Lucy Charles-Barclay is getting ready for her second workout of the day. Her mini Jack Russell terrier Lola will be dutifully joining Lucy and her husband … Read more
Six-month-old baby survives being thrown from a burning third-floor apartment as his parents are lowered down the side of the building in France Disturbing footage shows the baby flying through the air in the city of Nantes At the time, youths were clambering up to the apartment to try and get the child and his … Read more
I’ve suffered from burning mouth syndrome for about 25 to 30 years. No one seems to be able to help. I am 78 years old. Can you suggest anything? Margaret Wheddon, via email. Burning mouth syndrome is a poorly understood condition and your experience with it must be debilitating. As there are no tests for … Read more
Jessica Rowe has paid tribute to the Good Samaritan bus driver who helped her and her daughter escape their burning car moments before it exploded in a fireball. The television star was picking up her eldest daughter Allegra, 14, from school in Sydney’s eastern suburbs on Thursday afternoon when the black Volvo XC 60 began … Read more
Quick-thinking bin lorry driver dumps burning load onto London street as flames threaten to engulf Biffa truck Passerby Sean Mizen captured the footage in Camden, London, on Friday night It showed fire raging from inside red Biffa truck as plumes of smoke billowed out The driver dumped the flaming load on to the road before … Read more
Moment mother saves her four children by throwing them from the third floor of a burning building in Turkey A video of the incident has been shared online showing the children being saved The mother drops her children out of a window as smoke billows out behind her People in the street below hold blankets out … Read more
The mysterious death of an 18-year-old boy whose charred body was found in a burnt-out car is being re-examined in a BBC podcast. Caoimhin Cassidy Crossan, from Creggan, Derry, died in the early hours of 1 June 2019 when the stolen car he was travelling in crashed into a lamppost and went up in flames. … Read more
Fashionable wood burning stoves are the UK’s single biggest source of particulate air pollution and produce three times more of the toxins than road traffic, Government data shows. DEFRA figures reveal domestic combustion created more than 47,000 tonnes of PM2.5 pollution in 2019 — 43 per cent of all PM2.5 particles produced. The vast majority … Read more
Hero doctor rescues Oxford jab doses from burning vaccination centre after it burst into flames as people queued for Covid injections Doctor was seen pulling refrigerated container of vaccines from health centre Patients were evacuated from Emberbrook Community Centre on Saturday Volunteers praise doctor’s heroic effort, saying: ‘It was his priority to get it out’ … Read more