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Neighbours fume over inflatable dome built outside their houses that is 'enormous zit'

Channel: UK UK 6 days ago By Sarah Hooper
Play Video epa11849594 A fallen tree blown over in the wind during storm Eowyn in Donegal Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland 24 January 2025. The UK's Met Office has issued issued a red danger to life warning across Northern Ireland, while schools, colleges, the courts and many shops are closed and public transport is suspended. EPA/MARIE THERESE HURSON

Two dead and 1,100,000 in dark after Storm Eowyn crashes in with 114mph winds

Channel: UK UK January 24, 2025 By Tom Sanders
BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE Undated handout photo of CCTV issued by Police Scotland of Serbanica-Ibram Saban with his seven-year-old daughter Shakira Baci, and his partner and Shakira's mother, Narcisca Baci, 28 - all members of a family of five with young children who went missing in Edinburgh on Thursday. Bahara Denisa Baci, a 13-year-old girl, Shakira Baci a seven-year-old girl, and Umut-yronn Saban, an 11-month-old boy, were last seen at about 12.30pm in the Captain's Road area of the capital. Issue date: Thursday January 16, 2025. PA Photo. Police said all three children were understood to be with their mother, Narcisca Baci, 28, and their father Serbanica-Ibram Saban, 32, who are also missing. See PA story SCOTLAND Family. Photo credit should read: Police Scotland/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

Man and woman arrested after missing family found 'safe and well'

Channel: UK UK January 17, 2025 By Tom Sanders
A CrossCountry train makes it's way along the line near to Basingstoke in Hampshire.

The UK's longest train journey with 36 stops and ‘breathtaking countryside’

Channel: Travel Travel February 12, 2025 By Eleanor Noyce
Video released of 2nd lynx pair illegally abandoned - while one dies at zoo. Release date January 12 2025. A lynx released illegally into the wild has died after it was captured - as police warn the public to avoid the area. The feline was one of two spotted on Friday morning and caught the same evening - along with two others taken into care on Wednesday. The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland has confirmed one of the latest pair has sadly died. Dr Helen Senn, RZSS Head of Conservation said: ???After extensive efforts to capture these animals safely and humanely, we were very sad to discover that one of them has died overnight.

Lynx dies after big cats released illegally into UK countryside

Channel: UK UK January 13, 2025 By Jasper King
Crowds of people walking near St Giles' Cathedral on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland.

This UK city is the first to introduce tourist tax — will Brits have to pay?

Channel: Travel Travel January 10, 2025 By Alice Giddings
Westfield London shopping centre on 9th May 2024 in London, United Kingdom. White City is a district in the northern part of Shepherd's Bush in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. The district got its name from the white marble cladding used on buildings during several exhibitions when the area was first developed, between in the early 1900s. White City is currently area under a massive redevelopment program, with high rise apartment buildings rising up just east of Wood Lane. (photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)

Full list of New Years Day opening times for major UK shopping centres

Channel: UK UK December 31, 2024 By Katie Boyden
Play Video Fireworks explode over Edinburgh Castle and the Balmoral Clock during the street party for Hogmanay New Year celebrations in Edinburgh. Picture date: Monday January 1, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story SOCIAL Hogmanay. Photo credit should read: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Edinburgh's iconic Hogmanay celebration axed over severe weather

Channel: UK UK December 31, 2024 By Lucia Botfield
Flour Mill, Firth of Forth, Fife. Photograph taken from Hollywood Park, Edinburgh

Explosion carried out off UK coast after boat dredges up a mystery device

Channel: UK UK December 30, 2024 By Noora Mykkanen
A Northern Rail train travels on tracks past snow in Buxton, northern England, on November 19, 2024. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP) (Photo by PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Map shows where snow will fall in the UK over New Year's Eve

Channel: UK UK December 26, 2024 By Tom Sanders
Westfield London shopping centre on 9th May 2024 in London, United Kingdom. White City is a district in the northern part of Shepherd's Bush in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. The district got its name from the white marble cladding used on buildings during several exhibitions when the area was first developed, between in the early 1900s. White City is currently area under a massive redevelopment program, with high rise apartment buildings rising up just east of Wood Lane. (photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)

Full list of Boxing Day opening times for major UK shopping centres

Channel: UK UK December 31, 2024 By Katie Boyden

How Edinburgh Zoo's 'feisty' endangered hippo is celebrating her first Christmas

Channel: UK UK December 25, 2024 By Sarah Hooper
Clifftop Noup Head Lighthouse, Westray, Orkney Islands, Scotland in United Kingdom, Scotland, Orkney, Westray

The world’s shortest passenger flight takes just 90 seconds — and it's in the UK

Channel: Travel Travel December 23, 2024 By Jessica Hamilton

All the UK Christmas markets that are still open this weekend

Channel: Travel Travel December 20, 2024 By Sophie-May Williams
Caption: Woman says she was offered ?100 voucher after sexual harassment on TUI holiday Amber Hunt

Woman says she was offered £100 voucher after sexual harassment on TUI holiday

Channel: UK UK December 20, 2024 By Josh Layton

All flights grounded at major UK airport after 'IT issue'

Channel: UK UK December 15, 2024 By Lucia Botfield
Sainsbury's has opened it's first ever store in a UK airport

Sainsbury’s has opened its first-ever store inside a UK airport

Channel: Travel Travel December 14, 2024 By Jessica Hamilton

'I was diagnosed with MND at 30 - six years on, I want to become a Paralympian'

Channel: Sport Sport December 14, 2024 By Ben Fleming

Runaway racehorse escapes track and gallops miles into nearby Scottish town

Channel: Sport Sport December 10, 2024 By Ben Fleming
Alamy Live News. 2M5J2DM Edinburgh Scotland, UK 29 December 2022. Cllr Cammy Day Leader of Edinburgh Council at the media event for Edinburgh?s Hogmanay. credit sst/alamy live news This is an Alamy Live News image and may not be part of your current Alamy deal . If you are unsure, please contact our sales team to check.

City council boss resigns after 'sending sexual messages to Ukrainian refugees'

Channel: Politics Politics December 10, 2024 By Tom Sanders