Extinction Rebellion fanatics are deliberately causing at least £5,000 of criminal damage at protests to get jury trials as they believe they’ll stand a better chance of acquittal Extinction Rebellion deliberately causing criminal damage to get a jury trial Anyone who causes at least £5,000 of damage can be brought before a jury Protestors believe … Read more
Rising sea levels are transforming the once lush woodlands along North Carolina’s coast into grayish-colored, lifeless trunks known as ‘ghost forests.’ The leafless, limbless trees cover about 11 percent of the state’s Alligator National Wildlife Refuge that what was once thriving with healthy forests. The change is caused by massive amounts of seawater creeping inland … Read more
Well-wishers have raised more than £14,000 to support the grieving teenage parents of a two-week-old boy who was killed when his pram was hit by a BMW. Ciaran Leigh Morris died following a collision involving a car in Walsall on Easter Sunday. It was the first time the baby’s teenage parents had taken him for … Read more
SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, infects saliva and cells in the mouth, a new study shows. US researchers have found evidence that salivary glands are one area in the mouth where the deadly virus infects our cells. SARS-CoV-2 infection in the mouth accounts for the oral symptoms people with Covid-19 have been experiencing, such … Read more
Rise of celebrities having children in their mid-40s is ‘causing a fertility crisis’: Older mothers are misleading women into thinking they can conceive naturally well into their fifth decade, says IVF expert Famous older mothers may have relied on donated eggs, said Prof Adam Balen He said women in late 30s and 40s came to … Read more
A number of top brand sunscreen products risk causing cancer if they’re left on a shelf for too long, a new study finds, revealing they release toxic chemicals over time. Scientists from France and the US studied a number of randomly selected brand new sunscreen products containing the organic ‘sun filter’ chemical ‘octocrylene’. Products from … Read more
A mother whose son caused £6,000-worth of damage by destroying televisions, emptying cupboards and redecorating rooms with paint and sharpie pens has been dubbed the real-life Wreck-It Ralph. Shyama Underwood, 35, from Northampton, hasn’t been able to take her eyes off her youngest son, Jaxon-Carter, three, after he started a warpath of destruction from the … Read more
Moment three arsonists set off gas explosion that gutted warehouse causing damage worth £73,000 as trio are spared jail Daniel Smith, Dylan Kellaway and Aaron Meeking all caused £73,000 damage Fire ripped through an industrial estate and homes were evacuated, court heard The trio all avoided jail after waiting two and a half years for sentencing … Read more
Moment three arsonists set off gas explosion that gutted warehouse causing damage worth £73,000 as trio are spared jail Daniel Smith, Dylan Kellaway and Aaron Meeking all caused £73,000 damage Fire ripped through an industrial estate and homes were evacuated, court heard The trio all avoided jail after waiting two and a half years for sentencing … Read more
The international wildlife trade is causing more than a 60 per cent fall in species abundance, a new study reveals. An international team of researchers, including experts from the University of Sheffield, performed a ‘meta-analysis’ of the wildlife trade from 31 studies. They found a 62 per cent fall in species abundance overall, as well as … Read more