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Bournemouth Echo UKCar boot sale cancelled after warning is issued
A CAR boot sale has been cancelled this weekend.
- Yahoo News UK
What will the weather be like this autumn?
After the coolest summer in nine years, the Met Office has now told us what is likely to be in store in the coming three months.
- CNN
A pregnant shark was tagged and monitored for 5 months, then disappeared. Scientists now know its fate
Scientists tracked the movements of a large pregnant porbeagle shark for months. Then, its tag floated to the ocean surface, suggesting a larger shark had eaten it.
- The Telegraph
Sadiq Khan’s Ulez expansion ‘failed to lower pollution levels’
Sadiq Khan’s Ulez expansion to outer London failed to lower pollution levels, a report has found.
- South Wales Argus
Hourly Sunday weather forecast as Met Office extends yellow weather warning for rain
THE MET Office has extended its yellow weather warning for rain into Sunday until 6pm as the wet weather continues.
- FTW Outdoors
Baby koala, attacked by dog, reunites with mom in sweet video
An Australia-based conservation group has shared footage showing a baby koala reuniting with mom after the “joey” was attacked by a dog and rushed to a wildlife hospital for treatment. “Meet Squeak!” Wildlife Warriors exclaimed via
- Bucks Free Press
‘Thousands of pounds of damage’ and ‘extremely dangerous driving’ at local car meet
Drivers are facing hefty fines and imprisonment after causing ‘thousands of pounds of damage’ to a car park in Milton Keynes.
- PA Media: UK News
Thundery showers to hit large parts of UK with flooding still possible
A new band of ‘heavy and thundery rain’ will arrive on the south coast on Saturday and move northwards overnight.
- The Independent
UK weather live: Met Office warning as over a month’s rain to fall in two days on southern Britain
The Met Office say the weather will remain unsettled this weekend
- CBC
Washington woman punches bear during attack
On Sunday morning of last week, Lynn O'Connor took her two dogs and her neighbour's dog for a walk, as she often does, on her rural property near Washington state's Kettle Falls. The dogs took off, chasing something in the distance, but she couldn't quite see what."I thought it was cows," she told Daybreak South host Chris Walker. It was not cows. It was a black bear. And she was about two metres away from it."She was coming at me swiping and huffing, and she had her shoulders really big and her
- Wales Online
Met Office say temperatures set to plummet by 10 degrees as Arctic air brings autumnal blast
It is going to feel 'much cooler' in Wales over the coming week as colder air will make it feel more like autumn
- PA Media: UK News
Thundery showers to continue across already sodden southern half of UK
Flooding, travel disruption and power cuts could all affect communities in central and southern England and Wales.
- The Independent
Death Valley records hottest summer ever as Los Angeles braces for sweltering heat wave
The Southern California city is also experiencing unhealthy air quality
- Swindon Advertiser
Flood alert issued for Swindon area after heavy rain
A flood alert has been issued for Swindon following hours of heavy rain.
- Associated Press
Maui's toxic debris could fill 5 football fields 5 stories deep. Where will it end up?
Hinano Rodrigues remembers being 4 or 5 years old, carrying a bucket across a highway to the ocean in the Maui community where he still lives. It taught Rodrigues, 71, the value of ahupuaa, a Native Hawaiian system for dividing land from the mountains down to the ocean, with the residents of each section living off the land and waters within it. It's enough refuse to cover five football fields five stories high, including soil contaminated with lead and arsenic.
- Daily Echo
Residents set up petition against plans for 'biggest car recycling centre in Europe'
Hundreds of people have signed a petition against plans to open what they claim would be “one of the biggest car recycling centres in Europe” on Hampshire farmland.
- CNN
84-year-old Florida woman bitten by alligator while walking her dog recalls attack
An 84-year-old woman in southwest Florida was bitten by an alligator this week while walking her dog—and she lived to tell the tale.
- Sky News
UK weather: Thundery showers to hit as yellow warning for rain issued
A yellow weather warning for heavy rain has been issued for large parts of the UK this weekend, threatening flooding and disruption. The Met Office warning is in place from 9pm Saturday evening until 6pm Sunday, and covers almost the entire lower part of England and Wales, reaching as far up as Sheffield and stretching across from Immingham in Lincolnshire down to Tenby in Pembrokeshire. The new band of "heavy and thundery rain" will arrive on the south coast on Saturday and move northwards overnight, the Met Office said.
- Associated Press
Evacuations ordered as wildfire burns in foothills of national forest east of LA
Evacuations were expanded Saturday as a wildfire with leaping flames scorched the foothills of a national forest east of Los Angeles, amid a days-long heat wave that pushed temperatures into the triple digits across the region. The so-called Line Fire was burning uncontrolled along the edge of the San Bernardino National Forest, about 65 miles (105 kilometers) east of LA. The fire produced coiling clouds of dense smoke, and flames could be seen cresting hillside ridges.
- The Independent
Four storms are brewing in the Atlantic as hurricane season peaks - but will any impact the US?
The Atlantic hurricane season has been strangely quiet since Ernesto last month