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A town council will take over supplying street vendors with electricity after traders petitioned to save their businesses from an enforced power cut. Somerset Council said it could no longer …

People living in a residential area of a city said their lives were being blighted by vermin. According to people living in Oxclose in Bretton, Peterborough, the area has had …

A university team has won a silver-gilt medal at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show for its interactive plant science exhibit. The Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge said its …

A drug dealer caught "red-handed" with cannabis with a street value of more than £1,600 in his living room has been given a suspended sentence. A search of Callum Knight-Hook's …

Three dove chicks extinct in the wild have hatched at London Zoo. The Wild Socorro chicks, who emerged from their eggs in late March, are the offspring of two pairs …

Funding for libraries in North Somerset could be cut by almost £500,000, according to the local authority. North Somerset Council will spend around £2.25m in the next year on its …

Hundreds of new homes could be the "foundation for a sustainable, inclusive and enduring community" as the start of a new village, the developer behind the proposals have told the …

At al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Alam Hirzallah resigns himself to a grim task: registering the deaths of the wife and two children of his grieving cousin. His family brought …

The 700,000 residents of Sudan's Zamzam camp were already among the world's most destitute people when they were attacked by paramilitary fighters last week. Two decades of conflict in the …

Carefully displayed on a wooden tray and decorated with petals, these gluten-free and dairy-free chocolate brownies contain an unexpected ingredient. They were baked using flour made from ground up crickets. …