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An 81-year-old anti-littering campaigner has travelled across the country encouraging people to pick up rubbish rather than dropping it.Ruth Major, from Redruth, Cornwall visited all 39 BBC radio stations in England across 55 days armed with a litter picker and a bus pass.Affectionately known as Rubbish Ruth, she has collected litter for 10 years and said “things are getting worse”.”We live in a beautiful country and we should be so ashamed of what’s happening in it,” she said.

The Wheat Hill Mobile Home Community sits off state Route 170, on the edge of East Palestine, Ohio, a town most Americans only learned about because a train derailed there in February 2023 and released toxic chemicals into the creek. I grew up in a trailer park like this one, and know the sights. The grid of aluminum boxes in rows. Skirting the color of old teeth, some of it buckled, some patched with a piece of lattice. The window units huff and puff in August, dripping dark condensation on to the gravel.I’m sure there were drugs on my street.…

EXCLUSIVE: Finite Films & TV today is at the Edinburgh Television Festival today with a new six-part comedy series, Nuclear Children.  Adapted from the debut play of writer Ezra England, the series is being co-developed with Platform Presents, which also co-produced the original stage production. Nuclear Children follows 18-year-old Isla Sparrow who, after the death of her father in a submarine accident, hopes to escape her grieving family and flee to university. However, she fails her exams and finds herself trapped in her tiny, peculiar town hometown, determined to find a way out. England’s play won the 2021 Platform Presents Playwriting…

At the end of July, Kyle Cooke, from the Bravo series “Summer House,” stepped into an unconventional role: a weatherboy.In a video posted on Instagram, Cooke, dressed in a blazer, a shirt, a tie and denim shorts and armed with exactly zero experience as a meteorologist, stands in front of a green screen, pointing out areas where the weather is “sick” enough for a party.The video was part of Yahoo’s marketing campaign introducing users to its redesigned weather app. But it was also primed to tap into a growing demand from audiences: a weather forecast that is both fun and…

Tottenham Hotspur have agreed a loan deal to sign Manchester City forward Omar Marmoush, with an obligation to make the move permanent for £60 million next summer. As reported by BBC Sport on Wednesday, the 27-year-old Egypt international will move to Spurs after struggling for regular playing time at Manchester City since joining the club from Eintracht Frankfurt. Marmoush joined City for £59 million in January 2025 following an impressive spell in the Bundesliga. However, he often played second fiddle to Erling Haaland and found it difficult to establish himself as a regular starter at the Etihad Stadium. The Egyptian…

The former England forward Raheem Sterling has been charged with dangerous driving and possession of nitrous oxide after a crash involving a Lamborghini on the motorway, police have said.Hampshire and Isle of Wight constabulary said the charges followed a single-vehicle collision on the M3 southbound, near Minley interchange, on 28 May. The 31-year-old is accused of dangerous driving, possession of nitrous oxide for wrongful inhalation and failing to provide a specimen.The force said that no other vehicles were involved in the collision and no injuries were reported. Sterling, from Berkshire, is due to appear at Basingstoke magistrates court for a…

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – AUGUST 01: The WBC lightweight title belt is displayed before a vacant WBC lightweight title fight between Zepeda and Lamont Roach Jr. at The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas on August 01, 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Zepeda won the title by unanimous decision. (Photo by Steve Marcus/Getty Images)Getty ImagesMikaela Mayer will tangle with Chantelle Cameron on Saturday in Birmingham, England in a title unification bout for Mayer’s WBA and WBC super welterweight titles and Cameron’s WBO strap. This one is an intriguing matchup for multiple reasons. Mayer and Cameron are top stars in women’s…

Instagram’s CEO disputed allegations by US prosecutors that his company hid negative information from the public while testifying during a blockbuster social media trial.“I am not trying to encourage my team to hide anything,” the CEO, Adam Mosseri, told a California courtroom on Tuesday.Mosseri is the first top executive from Meta, which owns both Instagram and Facebook, to testify in a historic lawsuit brought by 29 US states. His testimony began toward the end of the day on Tuesday and is slated to continue on Wednesday.When the executive was posed with multiple questions about not disclosing low user numbers for…

The presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Adewole Adebayo, has accused former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar of inconsistency over his decision to restore petrol subsidy if elected president in 2027. Adebayo made the remark on Wednesday during an interview with News Central. Atiku, who is the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), has said he would restore subsidy if elected in 2027, arguing that Nigeria has sufficient resources to provide relief for its citizens. However, Adebayo said the position was at odds with Atiku’s stance during the 2023 presidential election, when the former vice-president campaigned on the…

A booming demand for concrete has resulted in sand and gravel being extracted from riverbeds faster than nature can replenish it. A study published in Reviews of Geophysics shows that the demand for sand and gravel has more than doubled in the last two decades, with overextraction leading to weaker riverbanks, lower groundwater levels, coastal salt intrusion and poorer water quality.In 2024, city-building and infrastructure projects around the world turned 28bn tonnes of sand and gravel into concrete. Researchers reviewed data on sand and gravel extraction going back to 1974 and have shown that since 2000 demand has more than…