6 d. ago Italian media reach agreement as Scott McTominay has change of heart after Napoli setback

Ex-Manchester United star Scott McTominay could only help rescue a point for Napoli against Hellas Verona on Wednesday, leaving them third in Serie A and four points off the league's summit

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3 w. ago Explosion rocks Pennsylvania nursing home leaving residents trapped as rescue crews respond

The explosion happened Tuesday afternoon at the Silver Lake Nursing Home

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3 w. ago Explosion rocks Pennsylvania nursing home leaving resident trapped as rescue crews respond

The explosion happened Tuesday afternoon at the Silver Lake Nursing Home

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3 w. ago Something gnawed your oak tree? Sink hole in your road? How Zurich’s beaver hotline is reassuring residents

As the number of the semi-aquatic creatures soars so can tensions. But the Swiss have a tried and tested system to calm the neighbours and restore harmony“I hate beavers,” a woman tells the beaver hotline. Forty years ago she planted an oak tree in a small town in southern Zurich – now at the frontier of beaver expansion – and it has just been felled: gnawed by the large, semi-aquatic rodents as they enter their seasonal home-improvement mode.The caller is one of 10 new people getting in touch each week at this time of year. Beavers, nature’s great engineers, can unleash mayhem during winter as they renovate their lodges and build up their dams. For people, this can mean flooding, sinkholes appearing in roads and trees being felled. A single incident can clock up 70,000 Swiss francs (£65,000) in damages. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Stretch of canal dammed off after ‘sinkhole’ leaves 10 needing rescue

A major incident was declared after reports of a hole emerging along the Shropshire waterway in the early hours of Monday morning.

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3 w. ago Major incident declared in Shropshire as huge sinkhole swallows canal: 10 people rescued from damaged narrowboats just days before Christmas

Emergency services are on scene in the Chemistry area of Whitchurch after the gaping hole, around 50 metres by 50 metres in size, started to develop at 4.22am.

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