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A major bridge on the M42 has been closed after drivers repeatedly ignored a safety weight limit put in place to protect the ageing structure.National Highways shut the North Bridge at Junction 6 near Birmingham Airport from 4pm on Monday after engineers found serious structural damage and warned the bridge could no longer remain open safely.The bridge had already been reduced to one lane before a 7.5-tonne weight restriction was introduced to reduce pressure on the structure. However, National Highways said there had been “repeated breaches of the weight limit, which was put in place to safeguard the bridge”.Following further…

Thames Water has returned to a full-year profit after hiking its customers bills by 40% last year.The UK’s largest water company reported post-tax income of £113m for the 12 months to the end of March, swinging from a £1.51bn post-tax loss the previous year.However, the firm’s net debt also swelled to £18.5bn from £16.8bn as it said it “continued to fund the business through… debt and internally generated cash flows”.Chief executive Chris Weston said: “The progress we have made in turning the company around has meant we are now performing better.”The publication of Thames Water’s results comes after the government…

Six-time Olympic medallist Suni Lee has announced she is coming back to gymnastics after not competing since the 2024 Olympics.The 23-year-old took team gold with the USA in Paris along with all-around and uneven bars bronzes.She claimed all-around gold, team silver and uneven bars bronze at Tokyo 2020.Lee’s return, revealed in a video on Instagram,, external comes two years before the Los Angeles 2028 Games.Commenting “I’m back”, she said in a voiceover: “I know what I’m capable of. I’m willing to do whatever it takes to get there. Back in the gym. We’ll see.”The video ends with the words: “This…

“We’re all fed up of hearing about these incidents,” Trevor Cooper, solicitor and dog law specialist, said. “There are victims who deserve better and the law that we have is a complete mess.”It is high time the Dangerous Dogs Act was perhaps thrown away and let’s start again with something that is fit for purpose.”The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is the government body responsible for providing guidance for police and local authorities on enforcing dog control laws.”We recognise that attacks on pets can have a devastating impact on owners and we take these incidents seriously,” a…

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Firefighters have said it could take days to extinguish a large fire on moorland in Greater Manchester, which broke out on Saturday.Officers said the blaze at Dove Stone Reservoir in Greenfield, Saddleworth, had now merged with one several miles away at Tintwistle Moor near Glossop.Clive Stanbrook, from Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service (DFRS), said it was spreading because of the tinder-dry conditions and the “ever changing winds”. He said crews were “doing all we possibly can to try and stop this fire from spreading any further”, including dropping water from helicopters and carrying out reconnaissance with drones and aircraft. A…

It is a question that has been repeatedly asked. Not least at the various reunions to mark Leeds’ title triumph in 1992 or Blackburn Rovers’ Premier League win three years later.Batty was involved in both of those landmark achievements, but ex-Blackburn midfielder Mark Atkins has not caught up with him since their playing days.”We have tried to get him to the dos we have had, but nobody can get hold of him,” he said.”He’s not that type of person. Even if he was living five miles away, he wouldn’t turn up because he’s a very personal guy, really.”Aside from a…

A farmer won’t face charges after shooting an alleged burglar on his Derbyshire property.Marcus Smith, 19, of Chapel-en-le-Frith, was pronounced dead at an address in Whaley in the early hours of May 1, 2024.Rob Lomas, who is in his 50s, confronted the alleged teenage intruder at his remote farm.Mr Lomas then discharged a legally held firearm at the teenager and was subsequently arrested on suspicion of murder.Another 19-year-old was injured by gunshot wound in the incident.Derbyshire Constabulary investigated the shooting and passed a file of evidence to specialist lawyers at the CPS.After being held on bail for more than two…

Amnesty International has offered a grovelling apology for condemning JK Rowling’s women’s abuse charity as “anti-rights”. The NGO previously listed the author’s Beira’s Place support service on a “blacklist”, accusing it of harming the rights of gay people and women in Britain. The blacklist including the names of 117 organisations, including For Women Scotland – whose action led to the historic Supreme Court ruling that the definition of a woman under the Equality Act is based on biological sex.Another group mentioned in the list was Sex Matters – which campaigns for the protection of single-sex spaces. Amnesty’s 22-page document -…

Droughts are complex phenomena, driven by a mix of natural and human causes.The Met Office expects the UK to experience drier summers on average in future as the world warms, though there has been no clear trend so far.But rising temperatures can play a more direct role by drawing extra moisture from the soil via evaporation.”A warmer atmosphere is thirstier for moisture and this can mean water in the soil, rivers and reservoirs are depleted more effectively, leading to more rapidly onsetting droughts, heatwaves and wildfires,” said Richard Allan, professor of climate science at the University of Reading.But there are…