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The founder of environmental campaign group Blue Planet Society believes social media including Instagram and Facebook is fuelling the problem

Fears have been raised over thick-skinned creatures such as rhinoceroses breaking free from their enclosures in zoos across Norfolk and Suffolk

The majority of Britons have pride in London as a capital city, a YouGov poll on behalf of Centre for London and the Mile End Institute has found.  The polling, commissioned to deepen understanding of how the capital's relations to the rest of the country have changed in recent years, found that: ·      A majority of people living outside of London (56 per cent) say they have pride in London “as the capital city of the United Kingdom”, while just over a...

A young man has sadly died after a shark attack. He was killed at around midday on Saturday off Newcomb Hollow Beach, Massachusetts. It has been reported that he was boogie boarding, when the tragedy occurred. The 26-year-old has been identified as Arther Medici. He is the state's first shark attack fatality in more than 80 years and it is believed the man was attacked by a great white shark. Gregory Skomal, state Division of Marine Fisheries shark researcher, told...

Controversial Katie Hopkins has applied for involuntary solvency after losing a libel case against author Jack Monroe, to avoid bankruptcy. In 2017, she was forced to pay £24,000 libel damages and legal costs to Jack Monroe after she implied that the author had vandalised a war memorial in a tweet during 2015. The BBC has reported that legal costs are allegedly £107,000. On Saturday, Monroe told her followers: "I have been paid in full, but many of her creditors, including...

Former foreign secretary spoke as arrived back from America

Another public vote on Brexit was never inevitable, or something I ever thought I’d have to call for. But the government’s abject failure – and the huge risk we face.. means that giving people a fresh say is now the right – and only – approach left

Aidan Loy, an aide to ex-PM Michael Howard, was spared jail despite racking up five convictions for drink-driving, a misconduct hearing was told.

Police are appealing for information after he was pulled from his moped and attacked in a violent robbery