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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/ed63/live/34038c10-d6ad-11f1-ac90-f7afd947062e.jpg”] Barefoot Photographer Eysa the dog with one of the 8,000 plastic bottles collected in the Isles of Scilly More than two tonnes of litter has been picked up from the Isles of Scilly coastline in the past 18 months, according to a community group. Scilly Coastal Clean-up, which has been sorting marine…

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/f5e8/live/d1e71b30-d6b3-11f1-aacc-5b5f23abff4b.jpg”] Getty Images Work has started on a flood protection scheme for the Whitesands in Dumfries A council has said it is confident of its legal position after concerns were raised about land being used for a £68m flood protection scheme. Dumfries and Galloway Council (DGC) said it wanted to “set out the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/961f/live/c5b21d90-d476-11f1-9dda-1ba6fcc7d159.jpg”] BBC Storms Austen and Boelo brought down several trees already weakened by disease Our oldest trees are increasingly vulnerable to disease, extreme weather and the effects of climate change. The collapse of a 166-year-old copper beech in Bristol’s Victoria Square, which was already scheduled for removal, has raised questions about the future…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/31c7/live/152ec730-d6c3-11f1-93e1-3b657b665bcf.jpg”] ‘All this food is now useless’: Piles of rubbish after shop freezers hit by cyber-attack Dozens of supermarkets across sevenEuropean countries have been hit by a cyber-attack affecting their refrigerators and freezers. Around 40 Delhaize supermarkets in Belgium and Luxembourg were affected, while a smaller number of shops were hit in Sweden,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/27dd/live/0467ec60-d6aa-11f1-ac90-f7afd947062e.jpg”] How a Democrat in Michigan rocked the party days before the US midterms A prominent Michigan Democrat who switched her endorsement to the Republican candidate in the final days of the vital Senate race has defended her decision, saying simply: “I changed my mind”. Haley Stevens, who unsuccessfully ran to become the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/d521/live/c93db920-d696-11f1-8052-913cc7942a17.jpg”] South African police Donovan Marx’s family and officals have welcomed the swift arrests of suspects linked to the farm attack Warning: This article contains graphic details that some people may find distressing South African police have arrested five people in connection with a brutal attack on a cattle farmer, who was assaulted…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/6c98/live/38dee410-d6a7-11f1-ac90-f7afd947062e.jpg”] BBC Shania Twain, pictured during her 2024 Glastonbury performance, will headline Chelmsford’s State Fayre festival next summer Country pop music icon Shania Twain has been revealed as the first headliner for next year’s second edition of an Americana music festival in Essex. The five-time Grammy-award winner will perform at State Fayre in…

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/66ea/live/2f239b10-d601-11f1-b437-279121eb1cd9.jpg”] BBC Fort Grey is among the sites run by Guernsey Museums Visitor numbers to museums in Guernsey have risen year-on-year, official figures have shown. The States of Guernsey said sites operated by Guernsey Museums had almost 66,000 visitors by the end of August, which it said represented a 3% increase compared to…