Yearly Archives: 2025

Police investigate reported attack at Bournemouth park

Police investigate reported attack at Bournemouth park

A cordon has been set up at a park as police investigate a reported rape.Dorset Police said a woman, aged in her 30s, reported being attacked by a man in a wooded area off Maxwell Road in Bournemouth at about 21:20 GMT on Wednesday.The force said a detailed investigation was being carried out and the victim was being supported by specially trained officers.Police remain at Winton Recreation Ground carrying out inquiries and urged anyone with information or concerns…

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Missing flamingo spotted flying over estuary

Missing flamingo spotted flying over estuary

A bird spotted flying over an estuary in Cornwall has been confirmed to be missing flamingo Frankie.Frankie escaped from Paradise Park in Hayle on Sunday morning, despite having her wings clipped.The park team confirmed a sighting of a large bird flying over the Hayle estuary at about 12:30 BST on Sunday was the missing flamingo."It helps show how she looks when flying, and she appears much pinker in flight than we expected," the park said.The public has been…

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Peatlands project wins prestigious ERC grant

A project studying the impact of climate change on peatlands has won a prestigious Synergy Grant from the European Research Council. CLIMPEAT (Northern Peatlands in the face of climate warming and abrupt changes) has been awarded €12.5 million over six years. The project will investigate how peatlands in the northern hemisphere respond to climate change and future warming. These peatlands contain huge amounts of carbon and nitrogen which, if released, could amplify global warming. CLIMPEAT is led by…

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Self Esteem: Trabendo, Paris – Live Review

Self Esteem: Trabendo, Paris – Live Review

Self Esteem | DellaXOZ | Roland FauntePitchfork Music FestivalTrabendo, Paris3rd November 2025 As Self Esteem makes her first solo foray into Europe, Iain Key goes international for Louder Than War. Self Esteem, aka Rebecca Lucy Taylor, has recently completed a month-long jaunt around the UK. I’d booked tickets for the first of the Manchester dates as soon as announced, having seen her on the I Tour This All The Time tour previously – there was no way I…

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Joe Ralls: New Plymouth Argyle midfielder hopes his experience can help club

Joe Ralls: New Plymouth Argyle midfielder hopes his experience can help club

Ralls admits that it will be strange to pull on a new club's shirt for the first time since a loan spell at then-Championship Yeovil Town 12 years ago.But he feels he is ready for a new opportunity as Argyle try and salvage something from a difficult start to the season after relegation from the second tier in May."After 15 years if you move straight into another club it would have felt more strange than what it does…

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Fatal A396 Somerset coach crash reconstruction carried out by police

Fatal A396 Somerset coach crash reconstruction carried out by police

Chloe HarcombeWest of EnglandBBCThe A396 was closed on Wednesday while police carried out a partial reconstruction of a fatal coach crashPolice investigating a fatal school coach crash have conducted a partial reconstruction to help them work out the circumstances which led to the incident.Oliver Price, 10, died of a head injury when a coach carrying Minehead Middle School pupils left the A396 near Wheddon Cross in Somerset and slid down a 6m (20ft) slope on 17 July.Avon and…

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Beaver supermoon captured over the south of England

Beaver supermoon captured over the south of England

ArtickleThe moon was glowing over Crowmarsh Gifford, Oxfordshire, in this picture by BBC Weather Watcher ArticklePhotographers across the south of England have been sharing their pictures of the Beaver supermoon.The largest, brightest Moon of the year rose on Wednesday with many areas of Dorset, Hampshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire lucky enough to have a clear sky.The Beaver Moon was bigger and brighter than earlier supermoons this year due to the fact that it is the closest full Moon to…

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Sex Pistols First Gig 50th Anniversary

Sex Pistols First Gig 50th Anniversary

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Sex Pistols first gig, our guest writer Hugh ‘Shug’ O’Brian tells us what this all means from past to future in a riveting read from his own memoirs… YEAR ZERO: Day 1.50 years ago, today…….. Thursday, 6th November, 1975.Top-floor Common Room, Saint Martin’s School Of Art, London.Headlining act: Bazooka Joe.+ support. And so it came to pass……..To almost everyone on the planet this was just any other day. In Britain, this was just…

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Cornish Pirates searching for improvements ahead of Nottingham trip

Cornish Pirates searching for improvements ahead of Nottingham trip

Cornish Pirates coach Joe Walsh says the Champ side have spent this week looking at how they can improve.The Penzance club beat previously unbeaten Caldy 34-27 on Saturday to move up to sixth in the Champ.But the coaching staff were critical despite the win as Pirates gave away a large number of penalties."We're not happy at all with our level of performance," Walsh told BBC Radio Cornwall ahead of their trip to Nottingham on Friday."There's large parts of…

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Man jailed for raping two women in their own homes in Poole

Man jailed for raping two women in their own homes in Poole

A rapist has been jailed for attacking two vulnerable women in their own homes within hours of each other.Daniel Hart, 29, raped a woman in her 70s in Poole, Dorset, after entering her home during the night. Hours later, on 15 May, he attacked a woman in her 40s in her flat.Police said the elderly woman had dementia while the second victim was also "a vulnerable woman with disabilities".Hart, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to the rape…

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‘Christopher Jefferies pay-out’ and ‘Asda fire’

‘Christopher Jefferies pay-out’ and ‘Asda fire’

Antonio OlmosThe Sun and News Of The World publishers have apologised and agreed to pay "substantial damages" to Christopher JefferiesHere's our daily pick of stories from across local websites in the West of England, and interesting content from social media.Our pick of local website storiesOur top three from yesterdayWhat to watch on social media Source link

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