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There have been 28 confirmed cases of the infection in people who visited the Cowbridge Farm Shop at Marlborough Grange Farm (Picture: Google maps) Dozens of people have contracted a parasitic infection called cryptosporidium from a petting zoo in south Wales. There have been 28 confirmed cases of the infection in people who visited the Cowbridge Farm Shop at Marlborough Grange Farm in the Vale of Glamorgan. Public Health Wales…

The boy went swimming in Colwick Country Park, Nottinghamshire, yesterday (Picture: Nottinghamshire Live/BPM Media) A teenager has died after getting into difficulty while swimming in a lake. The 16-year-old drowned in Colwick County Park on the outskirts of Nottingham yesterday evening. Witnesses called 999 at around 5.20pm and a body was found by an underwater search team three hours later. The boy’s death, which came on the hottest day of…

People enjoy the beach in Broadstairs, Kent, during the hottest start to May on record (Picture: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire) Today is the hottest start to May on record as the country is hit with wildfires. A temperature of 28°C has been recorded in Kew Gardens, Richmond, southwest London, according to the Met Office. A previous record of 27.4°C was previously recorded in Lossiemouth in 1990. Plumes of smoke have also…

Ethel May Caterham celebrated her 115th birthday in style at Hallmark Lakeview Care Home in Lightwater, Surrey on August 21, 2024 A British woman has become the oldest person in the world following the death of a Brazilian nun. 115-year- old Ethel May Caterham, from Surrey, gained the title after Inah Canabarro died aged 116 on Wednesday. Ethel is the last known living person born in the decade of the…

Jade Damarell had completed 400 jumps before her death A woman who died in a skydiving accident in County Durham has been named as 32-year-old Jade Damarell. The experienced skydiver, who had completed more than 400 jumps, fell to her death at Wrefords’ Farm in Shotton, County Durham. Company Sky-High Skydiving described her death as tragic, adding there were indications it was ‘a deliberate act taken to end her own…

Flowers and a police collision notice at the scene of the crossing along Station Road in Bamber Bridge, Lancashire (Picture: William Lailey / SWNS) Two people have been charged over a car crash which killed a baby boy and seriously injured a mother last year. The victim, in her 30s, was crossing the road when she was hit by the vehicle in Bamber Bridge, Lancashire, on September 29 last year. The…

The face of a man who met a bloody end almost 2,000 years ago has been recreated by a forensic artist (Picture: Hew Morrison/York Archaeology) A Roman thought to be a gladiator stares out in a visual reconstruction of a man who met a gruesome end almost 2,000 years ago. The lifelike image by forensic artist Hew Morrison used the skull of a ‘bold and strong-looking’ individual whose savaged remains were…

King Charles revealed his diagnosis only 18 months into his reign EPA) King Charles has reflected today on his cancer journey, well over a year since he was first diagnosed with the disease. The monarch, 76, revealed his diagnosis in February last year following a procedure at a London hospital to treat an enlarged prostate. In a raw statement, the typically tight-lipped king revealed how ‘daunting and at times frightening’…

King Charles and Queen Camilla during a visit to the Sea Holly Gallery in Belfast (Picture: Samir Hussein/PA Wire) King Charles has said his cancer experience, as ‘frightening’ as it is, has brought into ‘sharp focus the very best of humanity’. The monarch, 76, was diagnosed with the disease less than 18 months after beginning his reign. He receives weekly treatment. Charles and palace officials alike have said, time and…