Brigid and Roman hedgehogs! Every February 2, crowds gather in Punxsutawney in western Pennsylvania, to watch as a groundhog - "Punxsutawney Phil" - emerges from hibernation. If Phil sees his ...

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A public consultation has been launched on plans for a £600 million theme park in north Oxfordshire. Puy du Fou, which currently has a park in Les Epesses, France, and in Toledo, Spain, has ...

A chilling message of distress has emerged from the ashes of the recent wildfires in a Los Angeles region near a shipping port. Social media users have been captivated by the words "help" and ...

Orran has been interested in hedgehogs since he learnt about them at school. Savannah Hawkins says rescuing a hedgehog more than five years ago changed her life. An Alderney wildlife charity asks ...

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"I am afraid," said the talkative 63-year-old on Lenin Avenue in Gomel, a town of half a million near where the borders of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia meet. "I want peace," the former electrician ...

“The near-death stuff turbo-fueled all that,” he said. “It made me go, ‘Oh, right, yeah, I could die at any moment.’ I was throwing myself out of planes, taking all sorts of risks.” ...

On January 16, I wrote an article titled "The Near-Perfect Dividend Portfolio With ... this also requires me to gradually change my approach. Some people have spent decades building wealth ...

How one teen encourages animal adoption through social media with ‘Pets of Hong Kong’ While you might not work directly with hedgehogs ... t my parents want me to get a hedgehog?

There is a new queen of horror, and her name is Sophie Thatcher. The actress has starred in the cannibalistic Yellowjackets, appeared in MaXXXine, and had a lead role in 2024’s excellent Heretic ...