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Tuesday November 21 2023

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Will Humphries

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Will Humphries is the southwest and countryside correspondent for The Times. His patch extends from the Isles of Scilly to the borders of West Sussex and Oxfordshire, and covers the breadth of south Wales. Will began his journalism career in 2012 at Wales News Service press agency in Cardiff, where he won the Best Young Talent, Best Exclusive News Story and Best News Story awards at the National Association of Press Agencies awards. He joined The Times in 2015 and since then has flown a jet pack, tasted horse milk and had a bucket of water thrown at him by an angry Labour front bencher.

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Kendall, who sits on the Poole bench, owned two homes near the New Forest, adding annexes to both

Magistrate on wrong side of law over illegal extension

A magistrate has been fined £8,000 and ordered to pay £77,000 from the proceeds of crime after he took thousands of pounds in rent by illegally...

Monday November 20 2023, 7.30pm, The Times

Visitors from across the country are queueing to spend several hours hugging, stroking and lying with retired cows at Dumble Farm near Beverley, east Yorkshire

Have you herd? Cow cuddling is the latest wellness trend

With their immense physique and distinctly agricultural scent, cows are not the first animal you would expect people to be willing to pay to...

Sunday November 19 2023, 10.30pm, The Times

Oliver Gray, a former teacher, said: “An ambulance isn’t going to say, ‘Oh look, there’s an apostrophe’”

Pedants’ revolt brings back their apostrophe

Residents of St Mary’s Terrace are celebrating after the possessive apostrophe was returned to their street sign.

Villagers in Twyford, near...

Saturday November 18 2023, 12.01am, The Times

The cheesemaker makes products for Waitrose and Ocado

Cheesemaker fined more than £20,000 for polluting river

A cheesemaker who supplies Waitrose and Ocado has been fined more than £20,000 after repeatedly polluting the waterways around their farm in the...

Tuesday November 14 2023, 5.30pm, The Times

Rita Roberts’s body was found next to a grate in a river in Antwerp; her clothing was kept on file

Cold case murder victim identified as British woman

A murder victim known as “the woman with the flower tattoo” has been identified 31 years after her body was discovered in a Belgian river.

Tuesday November 14 2023, 5.30pm, The Times

Matthew Burgess claimed that he used to work for an investment bank in London

Conman’s scam cost girlfriend’s family hundreds of thousands

A conman told his girlfriend that he was a high-flying stockbroker before swindling her family and friends out of £800,000, a court heard.

Monday November 13 2023, 5.50pm, The Times

Mandy McDermott, who runs the Golly Farm Cottages business, says the letting thresholds laid down by the Welsh government could potentially mean a £5,000 tax bill

Letting rules ‘could destroy’ self-catering sector in Wales

An attempt to force empty second homes on to the market by demanding that businesses let their properties for 182 days a year risks destroying...

Monday November 13 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Ruma Lacey and her husband Mark say they were not consulted by fellow residents about the speed bump

Speed bumps cause bad blood between neighbours

Life within the leafy grade II listed community of Folly Farm was relatively peaceful and quiet until a row about speed bumps on their private...

Monday November 13 2023, 12.01am, The Times

On day six of the search for the missing cat, Daisy, a springer spaniel, started “going berserk” in woods in Cornwall

Hero hound mimics Lassie and helps kitty come home

It is a storyline worthy of an episode of Lassie: a pet cat who went missing for six days was found 100ft down a disused mine shaft after the...

Friday November 10 2023, 12.01am, The Times

The dresses are “twins” to five of Diana’s best-known outfits, including the red dress she wore to a Venice reception; the black gown she wore at the Tate centenary; and the pale blue dress she wore at her last public appearance

For sale: the dresses Diana wore at her most daring

Towards the end of her life Diana, Princess of Wales, began to make bold statements with her clothing to reassert her place and power in the...

Wednesday November 08 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Fflyn Edwards, right, as Prince Harry, with Rufus Kampa, left, as Prince William and Dominic West as Prince Charles

Sunscreen to the rescue for The Crown’s Prince Harry

The casting of the actor to play a young Prince Harry in the final series of The Crown was almost scuppered by him getting a tan at the beach...

Wednesday November 08 2023, 12.01am, The Times

The naturalist and antiquarian William Bullock, centre, gave his name to the Bullock’s oriole with its orange plumage; the thick-billed longspur, front, was renamed in 2020. It had been called after John McCown, a Confederate Army general during the American Civil War. The yellow Townsend’s warbler was first described by the American naturalist John Kirk Townsend

‘Animals next’ after birds renamed to break racism links

A decision to rename birds called after people in North America could lead to a review of animal names in former colonies, a leading...

Saturday November 04 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Insects from the psyllid family weaken the weed’s ability to spread and turn it from a nationwide threat to “slightly annoying”

How much Japanese knotweed is in your area — and could an insect fix it?

It is Britain’s most feared weed, ubiquitous across the country despite £150 million being spent every year to try to remove it. But now a...

Friday November 03 2023, 5.15pm, The Times

Jamal Mirmiran and Kelly Littlefield outside Poole magistrates’ court. They pleaded guilty to using threatening words or behaviour

Row over Israeli and Iranian flags leads to restraining order

A judge has imposed a restraining order after a dispute between neighbours descended into a racism row over Iranian and Israeli flags.

Friday November 03 2023, 12.01am, The Times

Jean Langan was walking to a car after a hospital appointment when the downwash from a rescue helicopter coming in to land at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, knocked her off her feet

Grandmother killed when hospital helicopter blew her over

A grandmother aged 87 was killed near a hospital helipad after being blown over by a Coastguard helicopter bringing in a casualty.

Jean Langan, a...

Thursday November 02 2023, 2.40pm, The Times

The teenagers attacked the house over a month while the owners were away

Children destroy couple’s £1.2m home with chainsaws and axes

A couple have told of their devastation after their £1.2 million grade II home was ransacked by vandals as young as 11 who spent a month smashing...

Tuesday October 31 2023, 8.00pm, The Times

The court heard that Xahra Saleem, from Romford in Essex, had spent nearly £6,000 on Uber taxis in 11 months. Saleem had originally pleaded not guilty, but changed her plea in September

Organiser of Colston statue protest jailed for stealing from charity

A woman who organised the Black Lives Matter protest that toppled the statue of Edward Colston has been jailed after spending more than £30,000...

Tuesday October 31 2023, 5.00pm, The Times

Bridie Whittle and farmer John Orgee at Upper Moorend farm where wetland pools have been created to reduce phospates from chicken manure soaking into the River Wye catchment

Supermarkets fund farm wetlands to stop pollution

Supermarkets are funding the construction of wetlands on poultry farms after coming under public pressure to combat the pollution killing the...

Tuesday October 31 2023, 5.00pm, The Times

Alana Fitzmaurice said that she had been sober for 12 years prior to relapsing

Addiction counsellor assaulted woman after alcohol and cocaine binge

A drug and alcohol addiction counsellor who downed prosecco and took cocaine before driving her car has been convicted of assaulting a woman who...

Monday October 30 2023, 5.00pm, The Times

Sir James Dyson has been trying to donate the money since June last year but has been blocked

Officials impede Dyson’s £6m donation to state school

Sir James Dyson has been blocked for the past year by education officials from donating £6 million to his local state primary school to help it...

Monday October 30 2023, 12.00am, The Times