14 h. ago Rare habitat in Wales threatened by jet skiers, dog walkers and sewage

A community nature group is calling on Vale of Glamorgan Council to turn an old harbour into a local nature reserve in order to protect the numerous species there

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4 d. ago Beachgoers 'leave human waste in gardens' and people are 'peeing in bins'

Residents near a popular beach claimed there was "human waste" in their gardens and jet-skiers were "splashing about under the influence of alcohol" at a council meeting

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9 d. ago Britain's most disorderly neighbourhoods of drunks and violence ranked by crime

There were more than 400,000 reports of public order offences in England and Wales last year, with the crimes including violent disorder, affray, threatening or drunk and disorderly behaviour

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1 week ago Scots dog walker plans XL Bully 'pack walks' for owners facing 'abuse' over ban

Former nurse Cally Gilbert says XL owners have faced verbal attacks in the street over their pets.

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1 week ago Scots vet issues snake warning to dog walkers after treating adder bite

With the weather getting warmer, the snakes are now coming out of their hibernation.

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2 w. ago 'I went to Britain's 'poshest' village where dog walkers have to sign NDAs'

You won't find a spot of graffiti here and the streets are paved with gold - not quite but they may as well be because to live here you'll need some very special permissions and a big bank balance

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2 w. ago Luke Littler threatens boycott as fans in crowd turn against him

Luke Littler suffered a heavy 7-4 defeat at the hands of Gian van Veen in the semi-finals of the German Darts Grand Prix, and he did not look happy as he left the arena

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2 w. ago Walker injured in Lake District fall tells mountain rescuers 'My dog pushed me'

The man suffered a gash to the head after slipping down a steep fell

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2 w. ago Guinea pigs left to die under hedge as Scottish SPCA makes urgent appeal

Six guinea pigs including two adults and four tiny youngsters were discovered cowering beneath a bush in Edinburgh by a dog walker.

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3 w. ago 'Smiling' rapist threatened to kill his victim if she did not comply with his demands

A judge said the defendant 'ignored her initial struggles' and then 'ignored her sobbing lifelessly' as he continued his attack

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3 w. ago The Balcony Movie review – funny/sad film that offers a view into strangers’ lives

Pawel Lozinski’s documentary collects conversations with passers-by he talks to from the window of his Warsaw flatPolish film-maker Pawel Lozinski has curated this amusing, cumulatively melancholy documentary which he has shot from the first-floor balcony in his flat in the Saska Kępa district of Warsaw. Over a number of years, and with a microphone discreetly attached to the chainlink fence at street level, he simply calls down to people going past and asks them to stop and talk about something, anything.There are a lot of dog-walkers and people with babies; most people smile or grimace politely and say they are not special enough to be featured in a film. A priest says he can’t talk because he is carrying the Holy Sacrament. Others obligingly talk: one woman sings a rather beautiful song, a man talks about being homeless, having just got out of prison. People confide their sadness at the loss of a loved one, though one woman sheepishly confesses her profound happiness that her abu...

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3 w. ago Gorgeous Welsh beauty spot threatened by 'morons wanting Insta pics'

There are worries that an Eryri lake's delicate eco-system could be destroyed by wild swimmers, even though it's listed on a number of websites as being perfect for that very activity

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3 w. ago Tories lose ground on Reform ahead of local elections as Farage party wins first council seat in red Manchester and threatens Labour in Wales

Kemi Badenoch's party trails Reform and Labour by two points on 22 per cent, down a point, according to Techne, ahead of the May 1 vote.

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3 w. ago Endangered koalas and the ecologist documenting their extinction – video

Maria Matthes, a lifelong koala conservationist, says loss of habitat and the climate crisis have threatened the endangered species in eastern New South Wales. Almost 2m hectares of forests suitable for koalas have been destroyed since 2011. They are one of more than 2,000 Australian species listed as under threat in what scientists are calling an extinction crisis Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Cardiff University staff threaten 'summer of chaos' in protest of 'cruel' cuts

Members of Cardiff University UCU have voted overwhelmingly to strike and a marking boycott

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3 w. ago Dog owner threatened with prosecution over 'bark chippings that look like poo'

Mai Bufton received an email from a Luton Borough Council claiming they had received a complaint about 'excessive' dog fouling

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3 w. ago Inside squalid home of dog walker who kept 11 pets in 'deplorable' conditions with faeces crushed into the carpets

Dog walker Hannah Critchlow kept the animals in a house described as being one of the worst ever seen by the hardened officers.

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4 w. ago Daughter of elderly dog walker says 'disgusting' teenage killers 'humiliated' him before brutally beating him to death in racist attack

Bhim Kohli, 80, was racially abused and slapped in the face with a shoe by a balaclava-clad boy in Leicester while a girl filmed part of the attack and laughed.

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4 w. ago Teenage boy and girl convicted of killing elderly dog walker in park

The pair, 15 and 13, were found guilty of the manslaughter of 80-year-old Bhim Kohli, who was racially abused and fatally assaulted near his home in Leicester.

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4 w. ago The emoji killers: How teen thug, 14, laughed to friends 'feds know it's me' and girl, 12, told police she found it 'a bit funny' after elderly dog walker was beaten to death in racist attack

The boy, now 15, and the girl, now 13, were found guilty of killing Bhim Kohli, 80, who was injured and racially abused just yards from his home in Braunstone near Leicester on September 1 last year.

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