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AN Essex animal rescue centre admitted a very rare bird... which sadly did not make it through the night.

Community Speed Watch is marking 20 years of volunteers tackling speeding head-on in Essex.

A specialist sexual offences charity said the criminal justice system “isn’t fit for purpose” to bring perpetrators of sexual offences to justice.

Male violence against women and girls has been described as an “endemic” issue by a specialist charity working with victims and survivors of sexual offences.

The change will only impact those using the car park for the football - not those using the leisure park

The ladies traveled together to the small European country to support Kim's boyfriend Lewis Hamilton at the F1: Monaco Grand Prix 2026 , where he placed second behind AK Antonelli.

Patrick Clancy was already on the phone with a 911 dispatcher when he found his three children strangled to death in the basement of his Duxbury, Massachusetts home on January 24, 2023.

The maritime museum aboard the ship in Bristol has declared it will discard the name SS Great Britain in favour of 'Bristol Dockyards' after a 37 per cent drop in visitors since the Covid-19 pandemic.

Hugh Jackman has been slammed by his own fans for posting a loved-up photo with girlfriend Sutton Foster at the premiere of his new film. 

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: While traditional hotspots in the region such as Thailand, South Korea and Malaysia focus on services such as cosmetic surgery, IVF or physicals, China is trying to differentiate itself by providing some of the world's most advanced procedures. "There are two reasons why a patient travels for medical treatments: availability of advanced treatments and price," said Victor Cao, operations director of Joyful Medical, an agency in Shanghai that connects international patients to advanced cancer therapies in China. "Chinese people used to travel overseas for treatments that were not available at home, but now tables have turned." As expanding visa-free policies eased travel in the past year or so, videos are proliferating on social media of foreigners recounting their positive experiences of treatment in China, usually for consumer procedures like acupuncture and tooth scaling. But one treatment that's more quietly gaining traction is CAR-T, among the most promising breakthroughs in oncology but unavailable in most countries, or extremely costly. The process sees doctors collect T cells from the patient's blood then modify them in a lab to produce a special receptor, CAR, that can bind to a specific protein on cancer cells. These engineered cells are then multiplied into large numbers and infused back into the patient. The CAR-T cells seek out cancer cells carrying the target antigen and kill them. In the US, one single infusion can cost between $300,000 to $475,000, according to the American Cancer Society. In China, the equivalent costs about $150,000 to $180,000, and it could get even cheaper -- its drug regulator recently accepted a marketing application for a therapy aimed to be priced below 300,000 yuan ($44,000). China's medical tourism market remains in its infancy. Lecheng International Medical Tourism Pilot Zone in Hainan, which was designated as the country's only special medical zone in 2013, treated just a few thousand foreign medical tourists last year, compared to hundreds of thousands of domestic patients who visited. There, patients can access advanced drugs, devices, and therapies approved in other countries but not elsewhere in mainland China. But China is pushing to upgrade its economy and reshape its global image from just a manufacturing hub into a provider of high-value services, and demand for medical tourism is surging. Globally, the market is estimated at around $34 billion and expected to reach $126 billion by 2035, according to San Francisco-based Grand View Research. Meanwhile, China's sector is projected to grow from $1.3 billion in 2025 to $3.4 billion by 2035, according to New York-based firm Market Research Future. "The patients chose China for something they can't get at home," said Shi Haoying, the group's founder and chief executive officer. "I think the growing attention to medical tourism to China is the inevitable result of long-term accumulation and development in many areas, such as growing medical technologies, quality of service and cost-effectiveness." Jeroen Groenewegen-Lau, an analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies, added: "Many new treatments, including in very advanced areas, are made in China but too advanced for the state of its healthcare system and the ability of its patients to pay for these things. It's in China's interest to integrate into the international system."

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Maysum Abdullah, 27, suffered injuries to his neck and hand after intervening when a teenage girl allegedly attacked fellow students with a knife at a school in Blackley, Manchester.

A massive volunteer search for Nancy Guthrie has been launched in Mexico after a  group received an anonymous tip claiming her 'grave' has been found, according to a new report.

With fire and song, the greatest show on earth kicked off in spectacular style last night.

Police Scotland was expected to send around 90 officers, including five inspectors, under a mutual aid agreement with the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

Twenty-five fire engines and around 150 firefighters have been rushed to the scene on Oxgate Lane in Brent in an effort to tackle the blaze.

Oasis star Noel Gallagher has filmed hours of interviews with his brother for a 'tell all' documentary. But one thing they won't be discussing is the end of Noel's marriage to Sara MacDonald.

Circumcision is a medical procedure common in Jewish and Muslim communities, often undertaken eight days after a child is born.

An Argentine journalist abandoned his post in front of a microphone in order to seize his chance to get a picture with Colombian pop icon Shakira at the opening match of the World Cup.

The bulk of the Tartan Army headed off to America yesterday as the World Cup finally got under way.

Rumer, 37, has been in an ongoing custody battle with ex-boyfriend Derek Richard Thomas, 33, following their 2024 split.