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The armoured vehicle, used by local units, is to be a “gate guardian” outside the entrance.

Children with severe disabilities rarely get a chance to have fun like other kids, but with support and some creative thinking, Lloyd Pinn is out at the skate park and enjoying taking risks

The milestone is one of a number of new measures taking effect on St Andrew’s Day from the Scottish Languages Act.

Sotheby’s says the 1562 picture of the fourth Duke of Norfolk set a record for an Elizabethan work.

Millipede (right whale catalog No. 3520) and her calf were seen about 4 nautical miles from the mouth of the St. Marys River near the Georgia/Florida line Dec. 3, 2025. This was the season’s second sighting of a mom and calf pair in the Southeast. Millipede is 21 years old and this is her third documented calf. (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, taken under NOAA permit 26919)

Governments at a wildlife trade conference have adopted greater protections for over 70 species of sharks and rays amid concerns that overfishing is driving some to the brink of extinction.

Taylor Smith, 21 wins Best Documentary at the Napier Student Film Festival.

Peter Howson and Ross Muir have joined forces to create a remake of Muir’s famous Square Gogh painting.

“I kept walking by her kennel thinking it was empty, but what I didn’t know was she was hiding under the bed,” Saraceno said.

Across the festive season, the Royal Mail organise hundreds of thousands of letters to Father Christmas

The Prince of Wales visits a number of severely ill children from Gaza being treated by the NHS.

Steve Thomson, who won £105m in 2019, is funding the new charity building in Chichester.

They were found cold and alone in a tree – now three tiny otter cubs are thriving

The bottle was found by Mike Nicholls, on Woolacombe Beach, in Devon.

The Western Forest is set to stretch across Bristol, Somerset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire.

Border collie Harvey, who is seven, can identify each of his 220-odd toys by vocal command.

Jorj the spaniel fell onto a beach during a clifftop walk from Robin Hood’s Bay to Whitby.

The woman, whose remains were found in Kendal, is named Agnes after a public vote.

RSPB Salthome’s bird tracking antenna follows two jack snipes on their European migration.

Pacific lawyer Julian Aguon to be honoured with Right Livelihood award for his work that led to ICJ ruling on climate harm

A series of activities are planned to mark the fifth anniversary of the Forest for Cornwall.

State archaeologists and geologists are working together to solve a more than 10,000-year-old mystery at the Piney Grove archaeological site near Reisterstown, building on discoveries first made in May.

Rare photographs from 1963 show a disappearing Ireland, captured by German photographer Diether Endlicher.

Ireland’s ‘castle of fun’ bubbles with diversions, writes Steve McKenna

A proposal to regulate international trade of gulper sharks could help to save the species.

Spotting the humpback has become an annual winter tradition for people on the Isles of Scilly.

They wear Victorian dresses and make daring moves riding side-saddle. Photographer Constance Jaeggi on how she documented an all-female Mexican tradition

The six female puppies are named after leading members of Aston Villa Women’s First Team.

A new study has revealed more about the ancestral origins of the ancient practice, which involves mounting coffins on cliffs.

As one viewer noted: “OK well to be fair you named him BANDIT he’s gonna steal.”

For years, researchers have questioned who created the “band of holes” site in Peru. A new study suggests it was an ancient marketplace.

In a viral TikTok video a dog owner reveals how her pup protects her home from strangers—and internet users can’t stop laughing.

Five puppies have been found being protected by their mother in a hole in a tree trunk.

It took some oblique wording, but Saudi Arabia made a last-minute decision to sign deal that marks departure for Cop

Cattle egrets eat grasshoppers, ticks and crickets, feeding from the ground disturbed by livestock.

A statue is unveiled to Mary Ann Macham who fled from Virginia to North Shields in the 1830s.

A record 39,000 birds are overwintering on Wallasea island wetlands thanks to soil transported from London tunnels

With only eight fluent Nyiyaparli speakers remaining, an Aboriginal group is racing against time to save its 41,000-year-old language.

Germany’s Culture Minister calls the discovery a “great moment for the world of music”.

Archaeologists studied hundreds of unfinished stone heads in a quarry on Easter Island to better understand how they were constructed and the society that made them.

From near extinction to a thriving population, one Galápagos tortoise’s extraordinary contribution rewrote conservation history.

A four-year-old golden retriever from County Fermanagh is being honoured as a “CPR hero” in London.

The landslip near the Harbury Tunnel in 2015, caused major disruption and damaged the ground.

At Maple Farm, nature is returning in droves: nightingales, grass snakes, slowworms, bats and insects. All due to the vision of a group determined to accelerate its recovery

Dog friendly treadmills in the back of a van help keep pets exercised when owners get injured.

The rubbish raiders are showing reductions in snout length, a sign of early domestication, researchers say.

A wildlife expert says the footage of the animals wandering past shops and bars is “highly unusual”.

Bracken is a four-year-old sniffer dog trained to detect hidden wildlife such as hedgehogs.

Hannah Shirley, born in November 1973, was celebrated with Hungry Hungry Hippos-themed party

In a remote corner of Costa Rica, a former cattle pasture has been restored as a lush rainforest, thanks to one family and thousands of butterflies.

More than half of the 49 saplings grown from the illegally felled tree will be planted in a week.

Winkworth Arboretum, Surrey: This song is not the same as the full-throated spring version, and it’s impossible not to reply to

The woman says sitting near the painting makes her feel like she’s sat in the countryside.

A copy of the first ever issue of “Superman,” discovered in a Californian attic last year, has become the most expensive comic ever sold, fetching $9.12 million at auction.

The artifacts are the first treasures to be recovered from the wreckage of the San José, a Spanish galleon that was sunk by the British Royal Navy in the Caribbean more than 300 years ago.

TAPAUA, Brazil (AP) — Environmental agents from Brazil’s Chico Mendes Institute released giant Amazon River turtle hatchlings into the waters of the Abufari Biological Reserve in Tapaua, Amazonas state, as part of a long-running conservation program.

While the autumn bird migration is mostly over, look out for waxwings, hard-to-spot woodcocks and even wood pigeons

Michael B. Jordan teared up accepting the 39th American Cinematheque award from A-listers like Ryan Coogler, Tessa Thompson and Tom Cruise.