International Women’s Day (IWD) is being celebrated today by people all over the world to mark the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.Originating from the global suffrage movement, the earliest Women’s Day celebration was held in New York City on February 28, 1909.
An injured seal was left whimpering after it became stranded on the cobblestones of a harbour for more than 24 hours. Heartbreaking video shows fisherman Kit Gallagher approaching the poor creature 'crying for help' after the tide brought it to shore. Kit, 50, found the young seal when he was checking on his boat in the harbour at Bridlington, Yorks., and notified a nearby Sea Life Centre upon discovery. He returned to the scene the next day to find the vulnerable animal still hadn't moved from the cobblestones and was still in distress. Kit said: "I came to the harbour to check on my boat and was told by a friend that a seal was on the south slope and it didn't look very well and that he thought it had a poor flipper. "I phoned Scarborough Sea Life and told them where it was. "I came back at 8am the next morning and found it still there and made an update video as I had thousands of people asking for an update. "I was told a call had already been made to the Sea Life Centre, so I went home and came to check a few hours later. "When I came back the seal was gone and I was told that the seal rescue had been with it all afternoon. "I was told by someone on the harbour that they had taken it, I think the seal arrived that morning as the tide was coming up." British Divers Marine Life Rescue were called out to the scene but the seal had gone by the time they arrived. A spokesperson for the charity said: "We didn't pick up this seal in but we did pick up another one that we kept overnight and then released the next day." It is a busy time of year for seals up and down the east coast as they regularly rest on beaches and in harbours. The charity added: "If you find a seal on a beach, watch it from a distance. Do not approach the animal. "Seals regularly haul out on our coasts - it is part of their normal behaviour and, in fact, they spend more time out of the water, digesting their food and resting than in it. "Therefore, finding a seal on the beach does not mean there is necessarily a problem and do not chase it into the sea as this may stop it from doing what it needs to do - rest. "A healthy seal should be left alone." They concluded that this seal would have returned to the water itself. The footage was filmed on March 17.
Bryn Hargreaves, who was 36 at the time, was reported missing in January last year
A total of 33 people have been injured after a ship dislodged in a dry dock in Edinburgh, the Scottish Ambulance Service has said. A major rescue operation was launched at Imperial Dock in Leith after the vessel lurched towards its right-hand side. The Scottish Ambulance Service sent five ambulances, an air ambulance, three trauma teams and other resources to the scene, while the fire service and police also attended after being alerted at 8.35am.
ReutersWhen the mayor of a small town in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai told the notorious Wagner Group over the weekend that he didn’t want the area to become the new dumping ground for dead mercenaries, he apparently thought he had a say in the matter.He didn’t. And Yevgeny Prigozhin, the cutthroat founder of the group, would soon make that frighteningly clear—with threats to dump dead bodies on his doorstep instead.Prigozhin’s fighters backed their boss up, releasing a video of themselves armed to t
A motorist who had been banned from driving sparked a 140mph police chase which led to his arrest on Monday. The man had attended a hearing at Harrogate Magistrates’ Court where he was disqualified from driving. Despite being banned from driving, he proceeded to drive away from court where he was followed by local police officers.
Nearly three years on from brutal Mother’s Day murder, Aiden Fucci is facing sentencing for the first-degree murder of his former classmate. Bevan Hurley explains the horrifying case
Mark Francois has delivered yet another yet another rhapsody on the theme of 'no' over the Windsor Framework
This is the shocking moment a Mayfair pedestrian was rammed to the ground and attacked by moped muggers who snatched a £211,000 watch from his wrist. CCTV captured the moment one of the robbers mounted the pavement and drove into the back of Mr Karkar, sending him hurtling to the ground. Moments earlier, Michael McKeown had been chased and also knocked down by one of the moped riders in an unsuccessful bid to steal his £75,000 Audemars Piguet watch.
Tomasz Oleszak, also 14, suffered a fatal stab wound while he was with a group of young people in a nature park in Gateshead last October.
Two men have been charged with manslaughter after the death of a delivery driver on Sunday (March 19) morning.
A police officer was shot as Germany rounded up members of a radical network plotting to overthrow the state and reinstate the Kaiser in a violent coup.
Leaving drinks for No 10 staff ‘essential’ during lockdown, former PM tells committee
Police leading a murder inquiry issued an urgent appeal for help from the public
28-year-old Reece Rodger was last seen in Perthshire on Saturday evening
The victim suffered burns to his face after being attacked while walking home from a mosque in Birmingham.
A man suspected of setting a Muslim worshipper alight was arrested the next day after returning to the mosque, and detained over a similar attack 120 miles away.
Jurors at Fiona Beal’s trial were shown two selfies which she took in a Northampton bedroom in February last year – three months after the killing of Nicholas Billingham.
The alleged gunman accused of killing Olivia Pratt-Korbel broke down in court as he told jurors, “I’m a dad. I’m being blamed for killing a child”.
A man has appeared in court accused of carrying out and broadcasting castrations on his "eunuch maker" website. Marius Theodore Gustavson, 45, is one of a group of men arrested on Wednesday in London, Scotland and South Wales. Gustavson, 45 and originally from Norway but living in London, is accused of being the ringleader.
A section 60 order was in place in Croydon following the incidents
Yahoo News