A dog called 'Sprocket' has sparked a woman-on-woman brawl after gatecrashing an 80th birthday party. Jake Michael Wear, 28, and his mother Katrina Jean Wear, 54, appeared at Rockingham Magistrate's ...

20:17, Wed, Aug 27, 2025 Updated: 20:38, Wed, Aug 27, 2025 At least 140 dogs have been struck down with distemper in multiple locations and many have had to be put down. Dogs in the tiny village of El ...

A livid pensioner repeatedly branded a dog owner "a dirty c***" in an explicit rant after his pet pooed on the pavement outside his house. John Smedley, 72, was caught on camera verbally abusing David ...

New video footage shows a dozen youths trading blows in a 'World War Three' brawl over a headscarf THIS is the shocking moment a mass brawl erupted in a school canteen sparking a riot involving 100 ...

A Scots woman who lost everything after a fire destroyed her home says her two dogs made a miraculous escape after a living room window exploded. Claire Donaldson, from St Andrews in Fife, returned ...

A dog died saving his owner from a devastating house fire after an e-scooter burst into flames. Kevin Record was sleeping in his flat when his dog, Shogun, jumped onto his bed in the early hours of ...

Two people were taken to hospital and a dog lost its life following a gas explosion on a pleasure boat. Fire crews from Wrexham, backed by the Deeside Water Rescue Unit, rushed to Chirk Marina at ...

Their namesakes are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards that inventors can win for ground-breaking work in medicine and science. But the tongue-in-cheek 'Ig Nobel' prizes are far less ...

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