James W Kelly & Matt Graveling BBC News BBC HCS Furniture’s van had not left the carpark stack since December 2022 A family business has regained its van after it was trapped in a central London car park for nearly two and a half years. Steve Davies and Mark Lucas collected the vehicle from Rathbone...
Phil McNulty, BBC Sport chief football writer Aston Villa’s announcement of expansion plans to extend the capacity of Villa Park to more than 50,000 is another indicator of the ambition fuelling the club’s revival under manager Unai Emery. Under the ownership of executive chairman Nassef Sawiris and Wes Edens, Villa have been restored to the...
Danny Fullbrook & Holly Nichols BBC News, Bedfordshire Universal Destinations & Experiences/Comcast The company behind a new Universal Studios theme park in the UK has spoken for the first time A new theme park is “just the start” of Universal’s century-long plans for its UK site, the company’s president has said. The US firm bought...
A man has been arrested following reports a woman was sexually assaulted in a Plymouth car park. Devon and Cornwall Police said it received a call at about 09:45 BST on Friday saying a man had approached a woman in a parked vehicle at Devil’s Point and sexually assaulted her. On Tuesday, the force said...
Police are appealing for information following a reported sexual assault in a car park in Plymouth. Devon and Cornwall Police said the incident happened at 09:45 BST on Friday 18 April at Devil’s Point car park. Police officers said they received a call stating a man in his early 20s approached a woman in a...
Peter Coulter & Jake Wood BBC News NI Michael Latham / Northern Wildlife Pics Parakeets have taken up residence in the Waterworks Park Amateur wildlife photographers have been flocking to a north Belfast park to spot a tropical new arrival. Bedecked with emerald green feathers and a rose-red beak, the ring-neck parakeets have become the...
Exeter’s newest park has sprung into life, with spring flowers blooming in the April sunshine. Walkers can take in the spring colours at Northbrook Park whilst dodging the April showers! Spring is definitely in full swing at the 4.5-hectare site just off the Topsham Road. The former golf course, which is owned by the City Council...
CCTV is set to be upgraded at a play park in Bideford which had become a target for vandals. Two cameras will replace the existing one at the site in Victoria Park which received a £280,000 revamp from Torridge District Council in 2024. The new equipment was attacked six months after being installed when blue...
A derelict housing estate dubbed “Scotland’s Chernobyl” for its eerie ghost-town like appearance is finally about to be razed to the ground. The tenements at Clune Park in the town of Port Glasgow were built a century ago as housing for shipyard workers but many have lain empty for decades. A stand-off between private landlords...
So, what chance do Villa have of hauling themselves back into this tie and even winning it? It should be noted that similar comebacks have been achieved before. Nine teams have been exactly two goals down after an away leg in a knockout Champions League tie and managed to successfully turn things around at home....
Danny Fullbrook BBC News, Bedfordshire Universal Studios / Comcast A new Universal theme park will be built in the UK, the government has confirmed. It will be constructed on the site of the former Kempston Hardwick brickworks near Bedford and is expected to generate 28,000 jobs before it opens in 2031. Universal estimated the 476-acre...
At least 50 hippos and other large animals have been killed by anthrax poisoning in Africa’s oldest national park, its director has said. Photos shared by the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo show the motionless animals floating along the Ishasha River. Park officials say they first started appearing last week. The...
A 15-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl have been convicted of the manslaughter of 80-year-old Bhim Kohli, who was fatally attacked at a park in Leicestershire. Leicester Crown Court heard that during the “intense attack”, the boy racially abused Mr Kohli and slapped him in the face with a slider shoe while he was on his...
BBC Mark Lucas’ furniture business has not been able to retrieve his van for more than two years The owners of a small family-run business say they have been left £40,000 out of pocket after their van became trapped in a mechanical stacked car park in central London more than two years ago. Mark Lucas,...
A teenager found dead after going swimming in a lake in south-east London has been named as Izaiah Smith. The body of the 15-year-old was found in Beckenham Place Park in Beckenham at about 22:40 BST on Friday following searches by specialist dive teams. The Metropolitan Police previously said his death was being treated as...