Matthew Hedges, a man sentenced to life for “spying” in Dubai, has been pardoned by the UAE. matthew Hedges, 31, denied spying back in May, and has said he had been researching his PhD. His wife appealed for clemency, and said she was “elated” and “can’t wait to have him back home”. The UAE issued the…
A Millipede that has only been observed 2 times in the past, has been found in South Wales. The rare bug was found by a group of children on a bug hunt the night before Halloween in Craig Gwladus Country Park. It has since been identified as the Turdulisoma cf turdulorum millipede, so rare it is only the…
A judge in the US has asked Amazon to hand over audio recordings from an Amazon Echo which was in a house where two women were murdered back in 2017. The man accused of their murder has pleaded not guilty and is due to stand trial next year. The women’s bodies were found under the porch…
A Durham University student has “confessed” to UAE prosecutors that he was spying whilst in the country. Matthew Hedges, (originally from Exeter), had been visiting the country conducting research on the UAE’s security strategy for his PhD thesis shortly before he was arrested at Dubai airport on 5 May. The 31-year-old denies spying but prosecutors said…
Astonishingly, the world’s smallest fox has rebounded from sure extinction in just a decade. Within the past few weeks, numbers have risen to a level where the house cat sized Santa Cruz Island fox can be removed from the Endangered Species List. This speedy recovery happens to be the fastest recovery of any mammal under…
A Kenyan Doctor who managed to perform surgery on nine unsuspecting clients, has been arrested after it was discovered he was a fake Doctor; after working at the Kapsabet County Referral Hospital in Kenya for many years. Ronald Melly, from Kenya, worked for many years at the Kapsabet County Referral Hospital in Kenya without anybody noticing that…