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As thousands of Manchester residents prepare to celebrate the festivities over Christmas, the bin collection schedules across the city will be adjusted for the festive season. The council is advising residents to check their bin collection dates during Christmas and New Year period, particularly to check their bin day online to avoid missed collections and ensure bins are out by 7am on the revised dates.  Collection Dates:  No changes to collections on:  Monday 22 December and Monday 29 December  Tuesday 23 December and Tuesday 30 December  Wednesday 24 December and Wednesday…

Robby Westat Norwich MarketCraig RackhamJenny Coupland runs Peck Savers, which rescues and campaigns for the welfare of pigeons in NorwichA row has developed between a council and some local people over the feeding of pigeons at Norwich Market.Norwich City Council recently brought in a falconer and a Harris’s hawk to patrol the busy market and scare off the birds.But local pigeon welfare campaigner Jenny Coupland said the birds were “brilliant” creatures and defended people’s right to feed them.Carli Harper, the Labour cabinet member for finance and major projects, said the council was aware of a small number of “irresponsible people”…

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Vandals have ruined Christmas for residents in Derby after ripping festive lights from a beloved tree and dumping them in a brook.Tory councillor Jerry Pearce says the holiday season has effectively been “cancelled” at Chaddesden Park following the senseless destruction.The lights adorned a 30ft Californian Redwood tree that had become a focal point for the local community.”Christmas has been cancelled on Chad Park unfortunately,” Mr Pearce said, expressing his devastation at the mindless act.The decorations were discovered strewn across a bench near Chaddesden Brook, with some retrieved from the water itself by concerned locals.A constituent alerted Mr Pearce on Wednesday…

Antisemitism in the UK needs to be tackled “head on” in the wake of the Bondi Beach terror attack, according to the Shadow Transport Secretary Richard Holden.He told GB News: “Seeing the Jewish community targeted yet again, it’s just awful. And my mind was thrown back to those attacks in Manchester just a few months ago, on the on the synagogue there, it’s pretty clear that there are people who are just [full of] hate in our country at the moment that have – I can’t, I don’t understand this sort of level of loathing and antisemitism myself.”I cannot see…

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Savers are being slapped with financial “penalties” on high interest rate accounts when chasing competitive deals from high street banks and building societies, new analysis warns.Banks are luring Britons with eye-catching interest rates on regular savings accounts, but new research suggests these products often come laden with hidden conditions that significantly diminish their appeal.A study conducted by Spring and MoneyComms has uncovered widespread restrictions across the regular saver market, including limits on withdrawals, penalties for closing accounts early, and fixed terms that can substantially erode the returns customers actually receive.The findings reveal that despite promotional rates designed to attract depositors,…

An animated reimagining of George Orwell’s Animal Farm has provoked fury online after a trailer dropped on Friday evening.The feature-length flick, helmed by Lord of the Rings star Andy Serkis, has faced accusations of fundamentally betraying the author’s cautionary message about totalitarianism.The CGI adaptation, which took 14 years to complete and faced numerous difficulties securing distribution, shifts its focus away from Mr Orwell’s 1945 critique of Soviet-style authoritarianism.Instead, the film takes aim at capitalism and corporate greed, introducing a wealthy antagonist not present in the original text.The animated makeover will hit cinemas next year | ANGEL STUDIOSSeveral critics have expressed…

Sir Cliff Richard has revealed he has been treated for prostate cancer.The 85-year-old singer said the cancer was discovered when he had a check-up for a recent tour, but that it had been caught early and had not spread.”I was going to Australia and to New Zealand and the promoter said, ‘Well we need your insurance, so you need to be checked up for something’. They found that I had… prostate cancer,” he told ITV’s Good Morning Britain.”The good fortune was that it was not very old, and the other thing is that it had not metastasized. It hadn’t moved,…

Former England captain Michael Vaughan has described hearing gunshots during Sunday’s terrorist attack at Bondi Beach as “terrifying”.Vaughan, who is in Australia commentating on the Ashes, was locked inside a restaurant “a few hundred yards from Bondi” for several hours alongside his wife, sister-in-law, two daughters, and a friend.The 51-year-old, who is staying in nearby Coogee and had spent the day with his family watching his son’s cricket match, was on his phone outside the restaurant when he heard what he thought was “fireworks” coming from the beach before being told to get inside by a bouncer.Authorities have confirmed that…