A town in Derbyshire is being evacuated due to parts of a wall of a nearby reservoir have collapsed in the floods. The Toddbrook Reservoir dam, above Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire, was damaged after a spell of heavy rain. Police have told the town’s 6,500 residents to gather at the local school where they will…
Police confirmed a Cambridge University student fell to her death in Madagascar after opening the door of a small plane whilst they were mid-air. Alana Cutland, 19, from Milton Keynes has died whilst on an internship in Madagascar. She was studying natural science at Robinson College. The police do not know why she opened the…
Ryanair has told staff it is preparing to announce job losses in the next few weeks as it has ‘more staff than needed’. Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary told employees that the airline has 900 more staff than required. He said: “We already have a surplus of over 500 pilots and some 400 cabin crew, because…
Homes have been evacuated and stranded people have been rescued as heavy rainfall causes flooding in northern England. Major incident has been declared in Cheshire after severe flooding. The Met Office said 19mm of rain fell in the North West over eight hours on Wednesday after heavy rain started on Sunday. Six flood warnings remain…
Canada police have cut down the scale of search for two teenage suspects in the murder of three people. Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, were last seen near the remote community of Gillam, Manitoba province. The police focused their search in that area for over a week but have found no trace of…
Plastic bag sales in big supermarkets in England have halved in the last year. Asda, the Co-op, Morrison, Marks and Spencer, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose sold 549 million single use bags in 2018-19; this figure is down from one billion in the previous year. Since the 5p charge was introduced in 2015 the number of…
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