RSPCA reveal their craziest rescues of 2020, including a stuck seal and fox in a watering can

The RSPCA has revealed their weirdest animal rescues of the year, including saving a seal from a running machine and a fox with its head caught in a watering can. These hilarious pictures show hapless pets and wild animals stuck in bizarre places before being freed. Rescuers from the charity have compiled the oddest rescues … Read more

James Cracknell is stuck on the roadside as his car runs out of fuel 300m from a petrol station

James Cracknell was stuck on the roadside after running out of fuel just 300 metres from a petrol station on Monday. The double gold medallist, 48, was seen by the side of the road in south London before topping up his Mercedes sports car with fuel from a plastic canister. As James busied himself with refuelling his … Read more

Moment 61-year-old man’s car is crushed by train in Brazil after getting stuck on the tracks

Moment 61-year-old man’s car is crushed by train in Brazil after getting stuck on the tracks – and he walked away with only a hand injury A 60-year-old man walked away with a minor hand injury after his car got stuck on a railroad track and got plowed by a train Sunday in Brazil  Video … Read more

Thousands of children are stuck in care home hell

Like any 11-year-old, Josh Jones loves Christmas.  Above all because it’s normally one of the few occasions he gets an entire week at home with his family.  Josh, from Warrington, suffers from a genetic illness and is severely disabled, requiring round-the-clock care which is provided by medical staff at the residential school where he stays … Read more

Another 800 military personnel are sent to help test 4,000 drivers stuck in Kent on Christmas Day

Hundreds of soldiers have been sent to Kent to carry out Covid tests on stranded truckers in a bid to try and clear the backlog of lorries waiting to cross the Channel.  The French are demanding a negative Covid test from lorry drivers before they are allowed to cross the border after introducing a travel … Read more

Villagers help truck drivers stuck on the M20 in Kent by lowering food parcels from motorway bridge

Kent villagers are helping feed stranded truck drivers lined up along the motorway by lowering bags of food to them from bridges.  They are using rope and shopping bags to deliver goods including beans, fruit and sweets to stranded lorry drivers waiting for Covid tests. Hundreds of hauliers are lined on the M20 as part … Read more

Polish lorry driver’s heartbreak as he faces spending festive season stuck in his cab in Kent 

A Polish lorry driver told tonight how he had to make the heartbreaking call to his pregnant wife and daughters telling them he was unlikely to make it home for Christmas, and would instead be spending it in his cab stuck on the A20 in Dover. Wojtek Golawski is one of thousands of truckers stranded … Read more

Lorry drivers face being stuck for days in makeshift camp on Manston airfield

Desperate lorry drivers stranded in makeshift camps at Kent’s Manston airport have pleaded to be allowed home for Christmas amid fears that even with the introduction of rapid testing the backlog of drivers willl take days to clear.  The military is heading to Kent today to start a mass testing programme after France confirmed it … Read more

European lorry drivers crack out the booze as they face Christmas stuck in Dover

European lorry drivers have been seen pouring booze and decorating a Christmas tree with tin cans amid fears they may be forced to spend the festive season separated from their families while stranded in Dover. Attempting to keep spirits high, one driver was today seen pouring wine into cardboard drink cups before serving it to his … Read more

Lorry driver fears he will be stuck in UK for Christmas as stranded truckers call for mass testing

A stranded lorry driver waiting to get back into France following the country’s UK travel ban has said he has no idea if he will be able to get back to his family for Christmas. The lorry driver, one of the hundreds stuck at Dover after Emmanuel Macron shut the border on Sunday, says officials … Read more