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Dolphins in English Channel are latest pollution victims with some infected by chemicals banned 40 years ago
High levels of industrial chemicals are building in the blubber and skin of one of the largest coastal populations in Europe, say scientists
Food bank handed out 750 meals in one hour with huge 30 per cent rise in uses
Camborne, Pool and Redruth says it faced unprecedented demand over the summer holidays.
Police hunt thug caught on CCTV snatching handbag from elderly woman & breaking her arm
The 79-year-old victim suffered a broken arm in the shocking attack
Rape becoming ‘effectively decriminalised’ after drop in prosecutions
Campaigners have previously argued so-called ‘weak’ cases are ditched in order to improve notoriously low rape conviction rates.
Number of households in temporary accommodation highest in more than a decade
It is the highest number of households in temporary accommodation since mid-2007.
John Lewis makes loss as it warns of dangers of no-deal Brexit
The retail giant said the impact of the UK crashing out of the EU would be ‘significant’.
This half-a-billion-year-old vicious predator is the earliest known ancestor of spiders
Palaeontologists working on the Burgess Shale fossil-bearing deposit in the Canadian Rockies discovered the new species, called Mollisonia plenovenatrix
Water vapour detected in atmosphere of habitable ‘super-Earth’ planet by British astronomers
K2-18b, which is eight times the mass of Earth, is now the only planet orbiting a star outside the solar system known to have both water and temperatures that could support life
Badger cull expanded in effort to tackle TB in cattle
The Government has granted licences for culling in 11 additional areas and reauthorises 29 existing culls across England.