The BBC presenter Chris Packham and the former Green party leader Caroline Lucas have resigned from the RSPCA animal-welfare charity, accusing the organisation of “legitimising cruelty”. It comes after an undercover investigation from Animal Rising, which campaigns for a plant-based food system, used hidden cameras to reveal animal cruelty at RSPCA-approved abattoirs. Packham, who was…
A childcare centre manager who alerted police to one of Australia’s worst paedophiles has been found not guilty of computer hacking for using a restricted computer to inform the media. Yolanda Borucki worked at the same Uniting Church childcare centre as Ashley Paul Griffith in 2021 and helped report him to authorities that year, but…
The UK will not tolerate attempts by foreign countries to harass or intimidate British citizens, the security minister has warned, after a number of Sikhs complained they were being targeted either by or on behalf of the Indian government. Dan Jarvis has written to the Sikh Federation after reports of harassment involving British Sikhs, including…
A judge on Monday ruled that Donald Trump’s conviction for falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal should stand, rejecting the president-elect’s argument that it should be dismissed because of the US supreme court’s recent ruling on presidential immunity, a court filing showed. Manhattan judge Juan Merchan’s decision eliminates one potential off-ramp from the…
Victoria recorded its highest December temperatures in five years on Monday, as towns and cities across the country sweltered in widespread heat. The Bureau of Meteorology said the state’s highest temperature on Monday was recorded at Walpeup, in Victoria’s north-west, which reached 47.1C at 2.25pm. A spokesperson for the bureau said this was the fifth…
Temperatures across South Australia soared past 40C before 10am on Monday as widespread heatwave conditions hit Adelaide and Melbourne and had parts of New South Wales bracing to endure their hottest December day on record. Jonathan How, a senior meteorologist at the Bureau of Meteorology, said Adelaide had already reached its forecast maximum of 38C…
A woman has died after a shooting in Brent, north-west London, on Saturday night. The Metropolitan police said two men, both in their 30s, were also injured, with one taken to hospital where he remains in a critical condition. The other man suffered non-life threatening injuries. Officers were called to Gifford Road at about 9.15pm…
Norwich, Norfolk Just a few hundred metres from the city centre, and in the conservation area, is a semi-detached Regency house with underfloor heating, an air source heat pump and an electric vehicle charger already installed. Enter through an arched front door into an elegant hallway with tiled flooring, which is flanked by a dining…
Norwich, Norfolk Just a few hundred metres from the city centre, and in the conservation area, is a semi-detached Regency house with underfloor heating, an air source heat pump and an electric vehicle charger already installed. Enter through an arched front door into an elegant hallway with tiled flooring, which is flanked by a dining…
President-elect Donald Trump has picked Kari Lake as director of Voice of America, installing a staunch loyalist and immigration hardliner to head the congressionally funded broadcaster that provides independent news reporting around the world. Lake, who ran unsuccessfully for Arizona governor and a Senate seat, was a television news anchor in Phoenix for nearly three…
