Ambush Predator

A driving instructor was rescued from 4ft of floodwater by a couple, as firefighters stood-by , because they weren't trained to go into...

The Oxford Bangladeshi Islamic Centre and Mosque had been due to mark the religious holiday Eid al-Adha in Leys Pool and Leisure Centre...

Angry residents want Southend Council to fine hospital staff for dropping cigarette butts near their homes . Trevor Murray, of Hillboroug...

A taxi driver told a blind woman she was not welcome in his cab – because she had a guide dog. Disability campaigner Diane Marks said ...

Compulsory canine life jackets at pet day care and boarding facilities across Colorado could become reality under rules being drafted by ...

Thousands of Muslim children have been left without meat in their school meals after the county council suddenly axed its contract with a...

"First of all the police came along towards Round Hills. They stopped at the lights there and turned around and drove off," he s...

A mile separates Lullabys and Little Ann day nurseries in South Norwood – yet one charges nearly £300 more than the other to look after a...

Thank god shoppers are protected from the menace of a post office selling eggs, jam and honey. Who knows what might have happened otherwise?...

When a cat appeared in Gary Sherman’s garden in June he cared for it for a week before he discovered it had hurt its leg and took it to ...

As the American Midwest ranchers say ‘Shoot, shovel and shut up’. Sadly, Neil Froggat hasn’t heard about the ‘shut up’ bit : A father who ...

Mr Blyth, 28, of Wick Lane, Ardleigh, commissioned the display to promote a website for his company, the Boot Group, which runs car boot ...

And they wonder why they can’t attract business ? A jeweller says he will c lose his business this month because Colchester Council has r...

Durham County Council has invested in more mole traps after complaints about an infestation in Weardale, County Durham. But before the tr...

When Anthony Cotter’s last dog Scrappy died in 2008 , he got permission from Oxford City Council to have a dog from Oxfordshire Animal S...

…if no-one misses you when you aren’t there, your job is not important: Parking wardens refused to go to work this weekend because the pani...

It’s a question that cropped up when I read three local news items. First, it’s the business-unfriendly Colchester Council in the news yet ...

A pie shop owner may have to stop selling hare and pigeon pie in summer because of a 108-year-old law – which was devised before inventio...

..it should now be ‘The nine most frightening words in the English language: I’m from the government a charity and I’m here to help ’: Pat...

...quite a few of them inhabit Sevenoaks Council offices : Eagle Heights owner Alan Ames has been told he needs to upgrade his wildlife park...