27 h. ago Grizzly with checkered past swims miles to Canadian island – and prompts a row

Residents on British Columbia island fiercely divided over whether to relocate, euthanize or ignore ‘Tex’ the bearMost visitors to Texada Island, a 30-mile sliver of land off the west coast of British Columbia, choose one of two main methods of arrival: a provincial ferry service with 10 daily sailings or a 3,000 foot air strip which welcomes the occasional chartered plane.But a four-year-old grizzly bear recently took a far more challenging route, braving strong currents and frigid water to swim nearly three miles across the Malaspina Strait. Continue reading...

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27 h. ago Grizzly with checkered past swims miles to Canadian island – and into hot water

Residents on British Columbia island fiercely divided over whether to relocate, euthanize or ignore ‘Tex’ the bearMost visitors to Texada Island, a 30-mile sliver of land off the west coast of British Columbia, choose one of two main methods of arrival: a provincial ferry service with 10 daily sailings or a 3,000 foot air strip which welcomes the occasional chartered plane.But a four-year-old grizzly bear recently took a far more challenging route, braving strong currents and frigid water to swim nearly three miles across the Malaspina Strait. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Spain's crumbling island beloved by locals with nothing to do but 'sunbathe and swim'

Spain's smallest inhabited island is facing an infrastructure crisis as it's overwhelmed by locals escaping the crowds

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9 d. ago Alert as UK woman dies from terrifying rabies she caught from stray dog

Health officials said the woman contracted the illness following contact with a stray dog. But it was only after they returned to Yorkshire that they were diagnosed.

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1 week ago Joey Chestnut announces return to Nathan’s hot dog eating contest on July 4th after facing ban

Chestnut has won the contest 16 times

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2 w. ago ‘I watched Bob Dylan play tennis with three of the Beatles’: how we made the Isle of Wight festival

‘It’s a myth that Jimi Hendrix played while the stage was on fire. It was a firework’In 1968, when I was 22, my older brother Ronnie got a job as a fundraiser for a swimming pool on the island. I’d done a concert for CND [the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament], so we started talking about doing some sort of festival to raise the money. My younger brother Bill suggested it had to be pop. An agency in London gave Ronnie a list of acts including the Pretty Things, the Move, Fairport Convention, Tyrannosaurus Rex and an American act, Jefferson Airplane. We only had a £750 investment from the Isle of Wight Indoor Swimming Pool Association, but after a friend lent us his £1,000 army pay-off, we managed to book all those bands, sell 10,000 tickets and break even. In the interim, the pool association pulled out because it didn’t like the publicity about hippies, drugs and sex, but they allowed us to use their investment and we were able to pay them back. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Moment thug shows up at his ex's house to burn it down while she sleeps before killing her dog

Adrian West, 61, had subjected Louise Simpson, 53, to a campaign of violent attacks last year which included strangling, punching and kicking before she kicked him out of her house.

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3 w. ago ‘What a girl!’ Lost dog returns after swimming to island on 100

Adventurous Amber spotted by two men in a boat in Poole Harbour after travelling across Hampshire and DorsetAn adventurous dog who went missing for 36 days and covered about 100 miles has returned from her extended walkies, after being rescued by a charity.Amber, a retriever cross, had been rescued as a street puppy in Qatar by a charity and moved to the UK but went missing after only one night with her new foster family near Bramshaw, in the New Forest. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Terror in Rhode Island as enormous TWENTY FOOT shark is spotted swimming in pond

Footage of the large animal first surfaced on Memorial Day, after diners spotted a large dorsal fin rising out of the waters in the state's Great Salt Pond.

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