Yearly Archives: 2025

A mum has said she was left shocked after being told it was "unacceptable" to breastfeed her two-year-old daughter in a shoe shop.Venus Neda was shopping with her family in Poole on Tuesday when she said her daughter became "hungry and unsettled" in Valentina Beautiful Shoes.The 34-year-old said she found a spot that she felt "wasn't so in people's faces" but was asked to stop breastfeeding.The shop apologised in a post on Facebook, adding that they wanted "everyone,…

The RSPCA is warning of a surge in animal abandonment as winter approaches, with cases rising sharply in parts of the south. In Dorset, reports are up by 18.4% this year, with 187 incidents logged by the end of October compared to 158 last year. Berkshire had seen 147 cases by the end of October, similar to the whole last year's figure, but still part of a growing national trend.Across England and Wales, 24,270 abandonment incidents have been…

A charity set up to promote sustainable farming has launched a fundraising campaign to protect one of the UK's most endangered mammals.The Countryside Regeneration Trust, which owns three farms in Surrey, wants to raise £6,000 for equipment to monitor populations of dormice in the county.Conservationists believe dormouse populations have crashed by 70% in the last 25 years, becoming extinct in 14 counties, due to habitat loss.The trust wants to use 250 footprint monitoring tunnels to track their movements…