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Zookeepers at Drusillas Park in Sussex have had to resort to unconventional ways to help stop their animals from overheating yesterday - the same afternoon an amber health alert was issued.

John Harvey, 51, who was an English teacher and safeguarding lead at Penryn College in Cornwall, allegedly had sex with the teenager in his car and at her home while her father was away.

Matlock Town Council put up a number rainbow flags along its highstreet for the first time to mark the start of national Pride month, which takes place in June.

Kitchen designer Lillie Clack, 22, from Morden, London, was fatally injured and died days after the crash, in the early hours of Christmas Day in 2021.

The 36-year-old Hollyoaks actress was in court to see Eddie Rainford, 32 - the father of her 15-month-old daughter - sentenced for supplying large quantities of cannabis.

alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: A team of biologists from Northeastern University and the University of Kentucky has found one of the key molecules involved in axolotl regeneration. It's a crucial component in ensuring the body grows back the right parts in the right spot: for instance, growing a hand, from the wrist. "The cells can interpret this cue to say, 'I'm at the elbow, and then I'm going to grow back the hand' or 'I'm at the shoulder... so I'm going to then enable those cells to grow back the entire limb'," biologist James Monaghan explains. That molecule, retinoic acid, is arranged through the axolotl body in a gradient, signaling to regenerative cells how far down the limb has been severed. Closer to the shoulder, axolotls have higher levels of retinoic acid, and lower levels of the enzyme that breaks it down. This ratio changes the further the limb extends from the body. The team found this balance between retinoic acid and the enzyme that breaks it down plays a crucial role in 'programming' the cluster of regenerative cells that form at an injury site. When they added surplus retinoic acid to the hand of an axolotl in the process of regenerating, it grew an entire arm instead. In theory, the human body has the right molecules and cells to do this too, but our cells respond to the signals very differently, instead forming collagen-based scars at injury sites. Next, Monaghan is keen to find out what's going on inside cells -- the axolotl's, and our own -- when those retinoic acid signals are received. The research is published in Nature Communications.

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The RMT trade union is allegedly urging members to take action if Transport for London (TfL) does not offer them a pay rise of 4.5 per cent.

Japanese doctor Michihiko Hachiya recorded the events following the explosion of the bomb in his diary last year.

Featuring unsure lovers in post-war Germany, a sexy, summer romance reuniting two young female lovers and a high-concept memoir that literally turns itself upside down.

Two iconic Strictly Come Dancing judges are set to appear on Celebrity Gogglebox.

A tarot reader teaming up with a psychic, sisters with a talent for transforming into animals and a gold rush gone wrong feature in this week's round-up.

Jacob Flavin, 29, used the Harry Potter-inspired handle to advertise and sell large quantities of the class B drug on encrypted messaging service Signal.

May was reported missing having last been seen at around 10pm on Wednesday on Old Station Road in Weymouth.

The Dance Moms star, 22, is back in America after spending two weeks with the Love Island star at his home in the UK, where the pair finally confirmed their romance following weeks of speculation.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Set in the gilded world of the British aristocracy, all country houses and glittering debutante dances, it's the story of the six ultra-privileged Mitford sisters.

Given my experience of trolling, you might expect that the news the man behind gossip forum Tattle Life has been sued for defamation would bring a smile to my face. Not so. I, in fact, love Tattle.

Tread on a worm and it will turn, says JAN MOIR. And Stephen Fry has turned on his former friend JK Rowling, branding her a 'lost cause' and accusing her of being 'radicalised' with 'strange' views.

Helen Smith, had only just been found dead in the grounds of an apartment block in Saudi Arabia. But it was soon clear to her family that the Saudi authorities were keen to rule it a tragic accident...

Olsi Beheluli, who came to the UK when he was nine, was sentenced to 11 years behind bars over his 'senior role' in a drug-dealing ring after he was caught with eight kilos of heroin in 2015.

Meet the first ever Love Island winner who is happy to say publicly that she's celibate. Here Jessica Hayes reflects on an extraordinary decade of sun, love, and heartbreak...