Britain’s biggest housebuilders have agreed to pay £100m towards affordable homes to avoid a regulator’s decision on whether they broke competition law. The seven firms have also agreed not to share commercially sensitive information such as how much houses have sold for “except in limited circumstances”. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) last year began…
The hedgehogs and the tube that rescued them – credit SWNS Using a vacuum and some plastic tubing, rescuers Macgyvered a device to rescue two baby hedgehogs who had tumbled down a storm drain. While the vacuum didn’t work, the tube did, and can perhaps became a standard-issue rescue device for these little critters who…
MPs, however, voted against a proposal from the Liberal Democrats to make at least 10 Premier League games available on free-to-air television each season. The new clause would have also required the League Cup final, and the Championship, League One and League Two play-off finals to be free-to-air. In the UK, the list of ‘crown…
(left) an undated photo of Scott Ruskan (right) flooding in central Texas – credit, US Coast Guard A little-known Coast Guard officer has been hailed as a hero after rescuing 165 people from the Texas hill country floods. Petty Officer and rescue swimmer Scott Ruskan, a native of New Jersey, was on the scene when…
Newcastle United have agreed a £55m fee with Nottingham Forest for winger Anthony Elanga. Newcastle are seeking to strengthen their attacking options as they prepare for their return to the Champions League following a fifth-placed Premier League finish last season. The Sweden forward, 23, scored six goals and produced 11 assists for Nuno Espirito Santo’s…
credit – Randy Robbins Photography, via YouTube A California photographer recently captured three minutes of high quality camera trap footage of the state’s rarest mammal. Randy Robbins, whom this reporter chose to feature in GNN’s roundup of the 2024 Wildlife Photography Awards, has been on a three-year-long quest to photograph the Sierra Nevada red fox.…
Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter Getty Images Author Raynor Winn has been accused of fabricating or giving misleading information about some elements of her best-selling book The Salt Path. The 2018 book, and recent film adaptation, told the story of a couple who decide to walk the 630-mile South West Coast Path after their home is…
A wall along the Gorringe Ridge carpeted with jewel anemones (Corynactis viridis) – credit press handout / Oceana / Carlos Suarez © Out of a recent UN conference on the protection of the sea comes the news that Portugal has announced the creation of a new 38,000 square-mile marine protected area. Established around the Gorringe…
Parents who experience a miscarriage before 24 weeks of pregnancy will be entitled to bereavement leave under a planned law change. The government is set to amend the Employment Rights Bill to give parents the legal right to take time off work to grieve if they experience pregnancy loss at any stage. As it stands,…
Baby hare survives thanks to farmer’s pocket knife – SWNS / Scottish SPCA A newborn baby hare survived after a farmer performed an emergency Caesarean section, using his pocket knife. Robert Craig had been collecting his forage crops to turn them into livestock feed when he accidentally struck a hare with his machinery in a…
