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A summer-long heatwave killed so many marine plants it released the equivalent greenhouse gasses produced by an astonishing 1.6 MILLION cars. A study shows the "unprecedented" heatwave raised sea temperatures 2 to 4 degrees Celsius above average for more than two months, which proved fatal for more than 1,100 square kilometres of seagrass. This mass extinction released up to nine million metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere over the three years following the 2010 heatwave in Shark Bay, Australia....

Reports are emerging that around 400 schools across Britain received an email today with a threat to detonate a bomb if $5,000 dollars is not sent. The email said: “We have sent in a student with a bomb. The bomb is set to go off in 3 hours time. If you do not send $5,000 USD" Many parents around the UK received messages from primary and secondary schools saying that there had been a hoax threat today, and some of the...

The rubbish, which included a mattress, various pieces of furniture, ladders, and a watering can was strewn across the road, blocking the route

They say he was not linked to the Salisbury poisonings

Police investigating the death of a Russian exile have removed hundreds of items of evidence from his home - and have ruled-out a break-in. Detectives analysing evidence in the murder of businessman Nikolai Glushkov have said there was no signs of forced entry at his home - where he was found hanging a week ago. The 68-year-old businessman, and noted Putin enemy, was found dead in his home in New Malden, south west London, on 12 March. The murder investigation...

Conservatives are in denial about the impact of cuts to school budgets and refuse to acknowledge that one of their flagship policies simply isn't working says GMB GMB, the union for school support staff, says new figures showing eight out of 10 academies in deficit show the Government is gambling with our children’s future. A new reports shows academy budgets are in an even worse state than those of council-run schools - with eight out of 10 in deficit. Two...

Troubled Ant McPartlin has been released 'under investigation' after being arrested on suspicion of drink-driving. The TV presenter, 42, was taken to a police station after his Mini was involved in a collision with two other vehicles in south west London on Sunday afternoon. A numbe of people suffered minor injuries in the incident and a child passenger in one of the cars was taken to hospital for a check-up. Police confirmed Ant has since been released and although he...

Eight major household brands including PZ Cussons (makers of Carex soap), Johnson & Johnson (baby lotion) and Kellogg’s (Pop Tarts) have been named and shamed by Greenpeace for refusing to take steps towards eliminating palm oil from Indonesian forest destruction from their supply chains. As members of the powerful Consumer Goods Forum (CGF), the brands promised in 2010 to help protect forests and limit climate change by cleaning up global commodity supply chains by 2020. Yet with less than two...

A 93-year-old former nurse honoured with an MBE for her services to the NHS spent SIX DAYS in a hospital corridor with a spinal fracture due to a bed shortage. After a six-hour wait at A&E, former theatre sister Enid Stevens was left in a cubicle on her own for another five hours - in soaking wet clothes after becoming incontinent. The great-grandmother-of-five was unable to move on the trolley and had no way of alerting nurses so she was...