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Rare species from water voles to adders across England have been helped with cash from the Species Recovery Programme’s capital grants scheme.
The project, led by Heriot-Watt University and involving researchers from the University of Edinburgh, Napier University and the University of Stirling, aims to help people with h ...
Live facial recognition will be expanded across the country as part of a Government overhaul of neighbourhood policing. The technology will be deployed to catch “high-harm” offenders, with new rules ...
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency said motorists are often ‘first on the scene’ when someone suffers a cardiac arrest.
A DESPERATE last minute search for a crown was making the news 50 years ago. The Dorset Evening Echo reported on Wednesday, August 13 how Weymouth Carnival Committee was mounting a last-minute search ...
Donate-a-phone schemes and computer workshops will receive Government backing worth £9.5 million, as part of a plan to help older people and low-income households access an “essential for modern life” ...
James Hadfield created the artwork and an epitaph to the animal while a patient at Bethlem psychiatric hospital.
ANOTHER attempt is being made to redevelop a former builders’ merchant site in Dorchester – giving the area ‘the gateway’ it ...
A FORMER Chapel at Hazelbury Bryan has been given planning consent for conversion into a home. Planners have been told it is the best way to preserve the building. The Victorian-era red brick ...
The call on Wednesday will include Sir Keir, Volodymyr Zelensky, Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz, who will later be joined by the US President.
A WOMAN has said her life has been “absolute hell” after she was attacked by an XL pocket bully.
Brian Barry-Murphy is encouraged by Cardiff’s start to his tenure after they beat Swindon 2-1 in the Carabao Cup. First-half goals from Cian Ashford and Rubin Colwill were enough for the Bluebirds to ...