Three people have died after a fire broke out overnight at a hospital ward caring for elderly people in Hamburg. The north German city’s fire brigade said they were unable to reach the three victims during the rescue effort. They died at the scene. The fire at the Marienkrankenhaus was reported shortly after midnight. Around...
A rescue team has filmed the moment they found an elderly woman stranded in her flooded home in Taree. The Australian prime minister, Antony Albanese has described the floods affecting New South Wales as horrific. Tens of thousands of people remain cut off after floods engulfed parts of the Taree region which is a few...
An elderly dog has been rescued from a Devon gorge after breaking its leg, a local rescue team said. Dartmoor Search and Rescue Ashburton said the dog, called Cocoa, was located in a remote part of the Dart Gorge on Tuesday. Twenty team members responded to the incident at about 15:40 BST and said the...
A project has been launched to combat loneliness and promote the exchanging of skills in Devon. The University of Exeter said the scheme paired older people in Exmouth with international students. Dr Yuxi Heluo, assistant professor at the University of Exeter Business School, said the project aimed to get the elderly to share their “life...
Simon Ward & Gavin Bevis BBC News, East Midlands Supplied Bhim Kohli, 80, died in hospital after being attacked at Franklin Park The brutal killing of an elderly man, carried out by a racially abusive 14-year-old boy with a thirst for social media notoriety. This is the assessment of Leicestershire Police Det Ch Insp Mark...