Cameron Weldon BBC News, South West BBC Marie Swords said where the pallet was left made it “impassable” A woman from Plymouth has said she was unable to get to work for two days due to a delivery of a pallet of stones blocking the front of her garage. 71-year-old Marie Swords said she couldn’t...
A drunk Devon woman ran through a fire exit and onto an airport apron after she was not allowed on a flight, a court has heard. Maisie Pearson and her friend had been denied boarding at Bristol Airport last November after the captain of the EasyJet flight to Amsterdam spotted her vaping on the airfield....
A woman found stabbed after a gas explosion at her home has been named as a charity worker who supported refugees. Annabel Rook, 46, was found fatally injured at a house in Dumont Road, Stoke Newington, north-east London, just before 5:00 BST on Tuesday. She worked for a charity that she co-founded called Mama Suze...
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman who was found with stab wounds at a house in east London following a suspected a gas explosion. The Met Police and London Fire Brigade were called to reports of a blast with a person trapped inside a terraced house on Dumont Road, Stoke...
Two people who died in a skydive accident in Devon have been named by police. Belinda Taylor, 48, from Totnes, and Adam Harrison, 30, from Bournemouth, died in the accident at Dunkeswell Aerodrome at about 13:00 BST on Friday, Devon and Cornwall Police said. Read full article at source...
Jonathan Vernon-Smith BBC Three Counties Radio Yaditi Kava Yaditi Kava had been shopping and went for dinner at Queensmere when she was accidentally overcharged for parking A mum was left “in shock” after being accidentally charged £4,586 for a two-hour session at a multi-storey car park. Yaditi Kava, 39, said she had typed in her...
Eve Jones Eve Jones says messaging promoting extreme thinness online is detrimental A woman who struggled with anorexia said she had to delete TikTok to protect her health after “skinnytok” flooded her feed with “damaging” weight loss advice. If you have not heard of it, “skinnytok” is a controversial side of social media where people...
Kelly Foran & Rumeana Jahangir BBC News, Manchester BBC Danielle Horan said “persistence” helped her clear the allegation A woman who was wrongly accused of shoplifting toilet roll due to an apparent mix-up with a facial recognition system was left “fuming” after being ejected from two Home Bargains stores. Danielle Horan was escorted from the...
Google The court ruled that Jane Reynolds is prohibited from using a megaphone in any public or private setting A woman has been banned from using a megaphone after being convicted of harassing her neighbours over an eight-month period. Jane Reynolds, 51, from Holsworthy, Devon, was found guilty of harassment without violence following a trial...
A UK soldier accused of raping a woman near a controversial British army base in Kenya allegedly attacked a British national, not a Kenyan, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed. In a statement the military said the man had been arrested and sent back to the UK following the alleged incident last month near...
A South Korean court has fined a woman for sexual misconduct after she pulled down a colleague’s trousers – and his underwear, by accident – in front of their colleagues, local media reported. On top of the 2.8 million won ($2,100; £1,500) fine, the woman in her 50s has also been ordered to complete eight...
A British woman has been charged in Australia over the death of a man she allegedly hit while riding an e-scooter after a night of drinking. Prosecutors told magistrates that Alicia Kemp, 24, hit Thanh Phan, 51, from behind at speeds of 20-25km/h (12-15mph) on a pavement in Perth city centre on 31 May. The...
A materialist feminist approach to women’s oppression destroys the idea that women are a “natural group”: “a racial group of a special kind, a group perceived as natural, a group of men considered as materially specific in their bodies.” What the analysis accomplishes on the level of ideas, practice makes actual at the level of...
A woman in her 80s has died following a crash involving four cars in Exeter, police have said. Devon and Cornwall Police said the incident involving a Toyota Yaris, Vauxhall Movano van and two parked cars happened on Cowick Lane in Exeter at about 13:00 BST on 29 May. Officers said a passenger in the...
Matt Taylor & Ben Jackson BBC News, Leicester BBC Lyndzi Hargrave bought the bus in August 2023 and spent the entirety of 2024 turning it into a home before moving in in January “I wanted to be a bus driver when I was younger. Then I wanted to own a bus cafe. It’s always been...