Millionaire financier Ben Goldsmith claims Britain has a ‘moral duty’ to learn to live with wolves and lynxes forced into extinction by their ancestors amid growing calls to reintroduce species  The debate over reintroducing species in Britain has started to gather pace The Conservative Environmental Network chair, Ben Goldsmith, says Britain’s arrogance about rewilding is preventing it from reintroducing lost […]

How a brave Aussie escaped from the grip of a giant crocodile trying to eat him alive: ‘It got its jaws around my head’ Man attacked by saltwater crocodile while snorkelling He received scalp lacerations and puncture wounds Tourist said reptile ‘got its jaws around my head’ The man who miraculously fought off a saltwater crocodile has revealed the reptile […]

A FOOTBALL-loving union leader yesterday insisted it was a coincidence that a train strike would hit the FA Cup Final. Aslef’s Mick Whelan was grilled on why he was targeting sports events and specific popular days. He told the BBC: “We don’t do it on that basis, as you know. I don’t think there’s a day in this country where […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Family and friends of Danny Estrin, frontman of Voyager, the West Australian synth-metal outfit which represented the nation at this month’s Eurovision song contest, were delighted when cartoonist David Rowe of The Australian Financial Review, our stablemate, had a Euro-riff for one of […]

Crew of Chinese ‘grave robber’ vessel suspected of looting British WW2 shipwrecks are quizzed by police after their ship is raided off Malaysia and unexploded shells are found on board HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse were sunk in December 1941 by Japan The shipwrecks are designated as war graves for the 840 sailors who perished But Chinese trawlers […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Families are the latest weapon in the private school sector’s fight against the Andrews government’s payroll tax changes, with principals urging parents to pressure their local Labor MPs to reconsider the move. The head of Victoria’s Catholic schools has written to state Labor […]

Now ITV’s under-fire boss launches inquiry into Phillip Schofield’s scandalous affair with This Morning lover in humiliating climbdown after holding crisis meeting with staff ITV launches external inquiry into Phillip Schofield affair to save This Morning Barrister-led review as pressure mounts on bosses to say when affair was known  ITV tonight launch an external inquiry into Phillip Schofield’s relationship with […]

Official documents will only be handed to the Covid Inquiry ‘where appropriate’, says minister amid stand-off over Boris Johnson’s diaries and messages from his time in No10 Mr Sunak insists Government is acting ‘in a spirit of transparency and candour’ Documents will only be disclosed to the Covid-19 inquiry ‘where it is appropriate’, a Cabinet minister said today amid a […]

Bank holiday inferno: The house in Welsh village where little girl, 5, died in Saturday night blaze that her two older siblings escaped Alysia Salisbury, a ‘beautiful daughter and sister,’ was killed in the blaze Drone photos show the house where a little girl tragically died after a fire broke out over the Bank Holiday weekend.  Alysia Salisbury was killed […]

Tragedy as girl, 4, is killed in house fire over Bank Holiday weekend Alysia Salisbury died in a house fire in Pontyglasier just before 10pm yesterday Officers are investigating the cause of the blaze and the coroner was notified A four-year-old girl has died in a severe house fire in Wales over the long Bank Holiday weekend. Alysia Salisbury was […]