A nine-year-old boy was injured after an inflatable Zorb ball he was in was lifted into the air by a gust of wind.According to reports, the boy was in the ball on a pool of water at the Southport Food and Drink Festival on Sunday afternoon when the gust picked it up at around 2 pm.First aiders treated the boy and then taken by air ambulance to the hospital from the festival at Victoria Park...
A woman’s body has been removed from the sea after being found in the water off the seaside town of Saltburn.Cleveland Police said officers were called to Saltburn Beach on Sunday afternoon by ambulance service colleagues responding to describe a body in the water.“Sadly, the body of a female was recovered from the sea shortly afterwards,” the force said.It said formal identification was yet to...
Since U.S. News & World Report started its Best Hospitals rankings in 1990, the classification has become the industry’s gold standard. If hospitals were to shun the orders like law and medical schools, big questions loom for what it means to be the “best.”The law schools started it. In November, top-ranked Yale Law was the first to say it would no longer cooperate with the U.S. News Scale of...
Whether due to financial reasons, health concerns, family obligations or job responsibilities, students who live a few minutes or think a couple of hours away from their college may consider commuting rather than living in on-campus housing or renting a place nearby.Some colleges require first-year students to live on campus if residential housing is available – though there are exceptions – and...
A Just Stop Oil protester has said she would understand why members of their organisation were blocking the road, even if it meant their mother would miss an urgent hospital appointment.Speaking to The News Agents podcast, Indigo Rumbelow justified the actions of Just Stop Oil, despite the continued anger their protests generate among the general public.Presenter Jon Sopel pointed to an incident...
The first public hearings in the COVID-19 inquiry are set to begin on 13 June, in a six-week process that will examine the government’s Preparedness and response to the pandemic.On Thursday, the government launched a legal fight over the inquiry’s demand to release Boris Johnson’s unredacted WhatsApp messages, diaries and personal notebooks – it is still being determined whether this will impact...
A run-down house covered by overgrown ivy and too challenging to enter been put up for auction – with an asking price of £300,000.The period townhouse in Clifton, a desirable suburb of Bristol where nearby properties sell for more than £1m, has no stairs, a fallen-in ceiling and has been vacant for five years.Auctioneers say that while potential buyers can’t see inside the property for safety...
A woman who turned her bedsit into one of “the UK’s dirtiest homes” due to her “phobia of bin bags” has seen it transformed in an incredible makeover.Her one-bedroom property in Portsmouth is now unrecognisable after being cleaned by professional grime buster Joe Cole.The 43-year-old spent three days clearing food waste and packaging for the “embarrassed” woman, whose identity is protected...
A primary school teacher has been disbanding over an online post he made when youths allegedly threatened to murder and rape his family.Michael Flynn, 52, is accused of breaking Twydall Primary School’s social media policy in a Facebook post following two incidents outside his home in Gillingham, Kent.His wife Angela said she asked a group of youngsters to leave when they tried to take a bicycle...
The UK has seen its hottest day of the year, with temperatures topping 25C in parts of the country.The mercury hit 25.1C in Porthmadog, North Wales, on Tuesday, beating Sunday’s 2023 record of 24.4C in Plymouth, the Met Office said.Scotland and Northern Ireland also recorded their highest temperatures of the year at 24.5C in Tyndrum, Stirling, and 24.5C in Castlederg, Co Tyrone.While temperatures...