12 h. ago Firefighters rush to massive warehouse blaze as enormous plume of smoke is seen 10 miles away and businesses are evacuated while tons of plastic waste burn

Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service was called to the inferno at Monoworld recycling centre on the Sanders Lodge Industrial Estate, Rushden, just before 6.30am today.

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3 d. ago Scottish SPCA urge those who are struggling to care for their pet to reach out after dog abandoned in Livingston

He is now being cared for at one of the Scottish SPCA’s animal rescue and rehoming centres

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4 d. ago Migrant dies after small boat sinks while trying to cross the Channel

The disaster unfolded at around 3am on Monday following a Mayday call to the Gris-Nez rescue centre on France 's northern coast.

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6 d. ago Police found 20 dogs alive when they raided rescue centre and found 37 animals dead as man faces cruelty charge

Officers from Essex Police, who were accompanied by RSPCA inspectors and council officials, found the dogs after visiting a property in Crays Hill, Billericay, on Tuesday.

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8 d. ago Inside 'dog rescue centre' owners thought was 'perfect home' where pups' bodies piled up

The Police and RSPCA found 37 dead dogs and 20 alive at a property purporting to be a rescue centre operating in Crays Hill, Billericay, Essex under the name 'Save A Paw'

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8 d. ago Gruesome remains of 37 dogs discovered as police raid 'rescue centre'

Ovaeed Rahman, 25, is charged with causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal after the remains of 37 dogs were uncovered by police at an animal shelter in Essex

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8 d. ago Man appears in court charged with cruelty and fraud after 37 dogs found dead at 'Save a Paw UK' rescue centre during police raid over 'missing animals'

Oaveed Rahman, 25, of Crays Hill, Essex, denied a charge of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal and three counts of fraud.

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8 d. ago New canine rescue centre is coming to Ayr after proposals are approved by council planners

Proposals have been approved for an extension and alterations to the base in Mainholm Road.

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8 d. ago Remains of 37 dead dogs discovered in Essex police raid on animal shelter

Two men have been arrested of failing to prevent unnecessary suffering to animals

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9 d. ago Police find remains of 37 dogs in raid on rescue centre after reports of 'animals going missing' as two men are arrested for fraud and cruelty

Officers raided Save A Paw in Crays Hill, Essex, with RSPCA and council staff following unproven online reports about dogs disappearing after being left there.

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1 week ago Residents warned of power supply disruption as substation fire tackled

Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service was called to the scene in the centre of Exeter shortly after 6am on Sunday.

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1 week ago Person rushed to hospital after being rescued from city centre river

A major emergency response descended on the Irwell

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3 w. ago ‘When she first gave me her paw, my heart melted’: here’s what I’ve learned about taking on a rescue dog

For the first six months after arriving in the UK from Romania, Sophie never strayed from behind Rory Cellan-Jones’s sofa – but with patience and love she slowly emerged back into the worldWhen a trembling dog was placed in my arms in the early hours of a December Saturday I was not too concerned by her terrified state. After all, I knew about rescue dogs. Cabbage, our lovely collie cross who had died at the beginning of the year, had come from a Dogs Trust rescue centre 15 years earlier, and had also been pretty nervous at first. I was confident that Sophie, a one-year-old of indeterminate breed (but with a lot of German shepherd), brought to us on a van from Romania, would, like Cabbage, quickly settle down in her new home. How wrong I was.Our new dog seemed frightened of my wife and I, and our house, and desperately searched for the smallest space she could find, eventually settling behind a sofa. The next morning, I was keen to restart the early dog walks which had been a key fe...

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3 w. ago Injured seals get care and sanctuary at a new center in the Netherlands

A 4-month-old gray seal named Witje swims gracefully through one of nine new tanks at the World Heritage Centre, a recently opened rescue facility in the north of the Netherlands

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