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Christmas as an ultra minimalist - no tree, no mince pies and definitely no presents

Lifestyle December 23, 2025 By Sarah Ingram

Roy Marsh in a photo from Facebook

Granddad caught spitting in the street claims a leaf blew into his mouth

UK December 11, 2025 By Barney Davis

Cropped shot of female hand carrying shopping basket while choosing vegetables at supermarket. Grocery shopping concept.

Testing shows scale of cancer-linked pesticides on these 12 fruits and veg

UK December 7, 2025 By Jen Mills

A woman adding a large log to the embers and flame of a woodburning stove at home.

Open fires and wood-burning stoves face crackdown in new air pollution plans

UK December 2, 2025 By Jen Mills

Fancy wearing David Beckham’s vest? We save celebrity clothes from landfill

Money November 28, 2025 By Alexandra Meyer

WITH VIDEO Pictured: Members of the Citizen's Arrest Network confront Mr Gosden at a conference in London The CEO of Southern Water has been placed under citizens arrest by activists who accuse him of the 'most serious' sewage pollution. The Citizen's Arrest Network surrounded businessman Lawrence Gosden while he was on his way to a conference in London and placed him under a 'citizen's arrest' - an archaic civil practice that allows citizens to detain a criminal until police arrive. Anti-pollution protestors accused him of four counts of causing a public nuisance. The allegations centre on illegal sewage spills, equipment maintenance standards, and the alleged 'mismanagement' of funds. SEE OUR COPY FOR DETAILS. Please byline: Citizen's Arrest Network/Solent News ?? Citizen's Arrest Network/Solent News & Photo Agency UK +44 (0) 2380 458800

Activists awkwardly try to citizens arrest Southern Water CEO for 'pollution'

UK November 27, 2025 By Sarah Hooper

FILE PHOTO: A drone image shows the Amazon rainforest and the city of Belem in the back ahead of COP 30, at Ilha do Combu, in Belem, Para state, Brazil August 10, 2025. REUTERS/Anderson Coelho/File Photo

World faces 'catastrophe after catastrophe' if climate talks fail

World November 21, 2025 By Jen Mills

This screen grab taken from AFPTV video footage shows emergency crews battling a fire that broke out at a pavilion inside the venue of the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, Para state, Brazil, on November 20, 2025. A fire erupted at a pavilion inside the venue of the UN's climate talks in Brazil on Thursday, prompting panicked delegates to run for the exits, AFP journalists said. Emergency crews rushed to try to put out the blaze as smoke engulfed the corridor. (Photo by AFPTV / AFP) (Photo by -/AFPTV/AFP via Getty Images)

Fire rips through COP 30 sparking mass evacuation during fossil fuel talks

World November 21, 2025 By Barney Davis

Protesters clash with security forces in an attempt to storm the COP30 headquarters in Belem, Brazil, 11 November 2025. EPA/ANDRE COELHO

Indigenous protesters force their way inside COP30 climate summit

World November 12, 2025 By Jen Mills

London, UK - 07.19.2024: Facade of the entrance of Art Deco Richmond Station with passengers entering from the pavement next to a bus stop under a clear blue sky with sunlight on a summer afternoon

Woman fined £150 for pouring dregs of her coffee down drain while waiting for bus

UK October 23, 2025 By Molly Lee

Six-belted clearwing moth, Wicken Fen | ? William Bishop

This wasp that's actually a moth lives in the UK – and just marked a big milestone

Tech October 7, 2025 By Jen Mills

Elephant charges, knocks tourist from safari canoe and holds them underwater

World September 30, 2025 By Jen Mills

Alex West and his family's home in Kent that he cannot sell because of fears it will be reclaimed by the sea in the next few years

Man sees £600,000 wiped off his home as it could be 'reclaimed by the sea'

UK September 21, 2025 By Oliver Jones

Firefighting helicopters drop water to extinguish a blaze in Torre de la Pe??a, southern Spain, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025. (Nono Rico/Europa Press via AP)

16,000 excess heat deaths across Europe this summer driven by climate change

Tech September 18, 2025 By Jen Mills

Five rare-breed sheep have returned to Hampstead Heath to help boost biodiversity at the historic landscape. Hampstead, London. // Five rare-breed sheep have returned to Hampstead Heath to graze for the first time since the 1950s. A flock of Norfolk Horn and Oxford Down ewes, on loan from Mudchute City Farm, have been returned to Hampstead Heath as part of conservation efforts. The rare-breed sheep will graze the anthill site on the Heath???s Extension between 8am and 7pm each day until Monday 15 September, before being stabled locally overnight. The project is being run by the City of London Corporation in partnership with the Heath & Hampstead Society, the Rare Breeds Survival Trust, and Heath Hands. Photo released 12/09/2025

Grazing sheep return to Hampstead Heath for first time in 70 years

UK September 12, 2025 By Sara Odeen-Isbister

Vines covered in snow at Pant Du vineyard in Snowdonia, North Wales (Picture: Pant Du Vineyard)

Welsh wine is booming, but would you go for cwm cabernet?

Tech September 4, 2025 By Jen Mills

The Druids Oak is 800 years old - can it help save tomorrow's forests? The Druids Oak is the oldest living tree in this woodland in Buckinghamshire

How an 800-year-old tree in the UK could be key to saving our planet

Tech August 29, 2025 By Katie Boyden

Rescuers in Norway resume search for journalist missing in wilderness Alec Luhn, a US-born reporter who has worked for the New York Times and the Atlantic, and was a regular Russia correspondent for the Guardian from 2013 to 2017, was reported missing on Monday after he failed to catch a flight to the UK from Bergen.

'I slid down an icy mountain and was stuck for six days without water -how I survived'

US August 21, 2025 By Jessica Kwong

A coastal community destroyed with a sailboat on land and buildings crumbling

Scientists warn of 1,000ft 'mega tsunami' that could kill millions

US August 17, 2025 By Jessica Kwong

Kevin Droniak sitting on The Cliffs of Moher in Ireland, next to a bright sunny view of the cliffs up-close.

American tourist's £660 'extreme day trip' to Ireland raises a lot of questions

Travel August 16, 2025 By Jon Fellowes