Author: Darren Smith

A one-year-old girl has died and a teenage student remains missing after a hippopotamus attacked a canoe carrying 18 people across Kenya’s Tana River, in an incident that has once again highlighted the danger hippos pose to communities living alongside the country’s waterways. A one-year-old girl has died and a student is still missing after a hippopotamus attacked a canoe on Kenya’s Tana River, capsizing the vessel and throwing 18 passengers, a mix of farmers and children, into the water. The incident occurred on Tuesday during what should have been a routine crossing near Mikinduni Village, on the country’s longest…

Britain is facing one of the hottest days in its recorded history, with temperatures forecast to reach as high as 38C, prompting a rare amber extreme heat warning, rail passengers being urged to travel only if essential, and continued efforts to bring a major wildfire under control in the New Forest. Britain is facing one of its hottest days on record today, with temperatures forecast to reach 38C and rail passengers urged to make only essential journeys as the heat takes hold. The Met Office has issued a rare 15-hour amber “extreme heat” warning for parts of central and southern…

Hundreds of thousands of students across the UK are preparing for a nerve-racking morning as A-level results day arrives, with results available from schools and colleges from 8am and several different ways to find out your grades. Students across England, Wales and Northern Ireland are set to receive their A-level results today, Thursday, August 13, in what is traditionally one of the most anxious mornings of the school calendar. The date is set by the Joint Council for Qualifications and applies uniformly across every exam board, including AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR, WJEC and CCEA. Alongside A-levels, the same day also…

A record 262,820 UK 18-year-olds have already secured university places, according to early Ucas figures, with the number set to climb further once A-level results, expected to be among the strongest on record, are confirmed this week. A record number of UK 18-year-olds have been accepted onto degree courses ahead of A-level results day, according to initial figures released by Ucas. The admissions body confirmed that 262,820 school-leavers have already taken up university places, a rise of 3% on the equivalent point last year. Because the figures were compiled before results day itself, the final total of 18-year-olds entering higher…

Actress Lucy Davis, best known for playing Dawn Tinsley in Ricky Gervais’s The Office, has revealed she was diagnosed with incurable Stage 4 breast cancer eighteen months ago, telling fans she is determined to live out whatever time she has left “in as fun a way as I possibly can.” The Office star Lucy Davis has revealed she has been diagnosed with terminal breast cancer and does not know how long she has left to live. The 53-year-old actress shared the news in an Instagram post on Tuesday, explaining that she was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer a year…

Southern Water has applied for a rare Non-Essential Use Ban that could stop businesses washing cars and filling swimming pools, as England and Wales endure their driest conditions in decades and brace for a sixth heatwave with temperatures set to reach 36C. Car washes and swimming pools could face a water ban as Britain’s record-breaking drought worsens, with no significant rain in sight and a sixth heatwave of the summer forecast to push temperatures as high as 36C this week. Some 27 million people across England and Wales are already living under hosepipe bans as reservoir levels continue to fall…

A woman in her 20s has died after the Smart car she was travelling in struck a parked street-cleaning vehicle in Epsom, Surrey, with police arresting the driver on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving while over the alcohol limit and uninsured. A woman in her 20s has died after a car collided with a parked street-cleaning vehicle in Epsom, Surrey, late on Wednesday night. Surrey Police said the woman, a passenger in a black Smart car, was pronounced dead at the scene following the crash on Christ Church Road at around 11.40pm. The driver, a man in his…

Kailey Erhart, 22, has been charged with murder after allegedly slitting the throats of her two young daughters and stabbing her one-year-old son in a frenzied attack at their Mandan, North Dakota home, having reportedly sent their father a chilling video warning him to “say goodbye to your kids” shortly before the assault. A North Dakota mother has been charged with murder after allegedly slitting her three children’s throats in a frenzied attack at the family’s home in Mandan on Thursday evening. Kailey Erhart, 22, is accused of killing her daughters Morgan, three, and Ava, five months, and stabbing her…

Abbie Lainton, a 16-year-old from Swindon, has died and her siblings Carley and Bradley were left badly injured in what has been described as a “terrible accident” while the family were on holiday in the Dominican Republic, with tributes pouring in from her school, dance group and cheerleading club. A British teenager has died in a “terrible accident” while on a family holiday in the Dominican Republic, which also left her two siblings badly injured. Abbie Lainton, 16, from Swindon, died on 30 July, with her sister Carley and brother Bradley both seriously hurt in the same incident. The exact…

Jorge Messi, the father and long-time agent of football legend Lionel Messi, has died in hospital in Rosario, Argentina, at the age of 68, with Messi’s boyhood club Newell’s Old Boys among the first to confirm the news and pay tribute. Lionel Messi’s father, Jorge, has died at the age of 68. Jorge passed away in hospital in Rosario, Argentina, close to the Messi family home, at around 10pm local time on 7 August. The news was confirmed by Newell’s Old Boys, the club where Lionel Messi began his football career, following earlier reports from local Argentine media. A career…