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Neanderthals: Expert discusses why species went extinct Sign up HERE for science breakthroughs in health, business and more that matter SUBSCRIBE Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Discovered in 1976 by British archaeologist Mary Leakey, the so-called "Lateoli Footprints" have both fascinated and confused researchers. After researchers excavated one set of prints at Lateoli, Tanzania, in 1978, they found "unequivocal evidence of upright walking" in the human lineage dating back 3.7 million years. But when another set of wider prints was discovered at a nearby location, Site A, the footprints were dismissed as those left behind by a bear. Related articles EU cracks show as Germany 'makes mockery' of bloc's rules …

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A SINGLE mum says she has been forced to share a room with five-year-old son after a bedroom ceiling collapsed which "nearly killed them" in their mould-infested rental house. Kat, 28, has told of the struggle of living at a home which is in such poor condition that the ceiling of her son's bedroom collapsed and the landlord refused to pay for the repairs. The mum from Bristol says she has been struggling to find alternative accommodation since the incident happened three years ago. She also says her five-year-old son suffers from bronchitis due to living in properties with mould . She says she was unaware of the black mould that had been painted over when she moved into their two-bedroom house in Easton five years ago. The mum, who works at a pub and sells goods at markets, says she has initially raised concerns about the ceiling in 2018 when her son was just a baby. Speaking to BristolLive , she said: “I told [the property manager] ‘you’re lucky that the split in …

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I'm A Celebrity: Matty and Naughty Boy take on a new trial Sign up for FREE for the latest news from the world of showbiz SUBSCRIBE Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info This year’s outing had already taken a turn for the worse when ITV presenter Richard Madeley was forced to drop out following a hospital visit. After significant delays to the popular reality series, I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! has suffered its lowest ratings in years over the last week. Related articles Kai Widdrington brother: Who is the Strictly professional's brother? Our Yorkshire Farm star Amanda Owen tells children to leave farm The show was pulled off air on Saturday, Sunday and Monday evening in the wake of Storm Arwen. …

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JOHN KIRK-ANDERSON/STUFF Two abandoned houses in New Brighton in Christchurch are being demolished to make way for six new townhouses. Two dangerous and derelict houses in a seaside Christchurch suburb, that were abandoned 10 years ago, are finally being demolished. Neighbours have long complained about the two houses, which sit side-by-side on Marine Pde in New Brighton. They were abandoned following the Christchurch earthquakes in 2011 and were covered in graffiti and filled with dead animals and human faeces. Squatters also frequented the homes and drugs were dealt there, leaving neighbours at their wits end. READ MORE: New housing to be built on former Christchurch hotel site City council, fire service may take action over derelict New Brighton houses Residents upset at continued flooding on roads in Christchurch's east However, this week the houses were demolished to make way for six new three-bedroom townhouses. Chalfont Construction director …

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Published 24 October 2018 Share close Share page Copy link About sharing A 93-year-old British expatriate living in Canada is flying to London to take up her fight against frozen pensions. Anne Puckridge, who left the UK 17 years ago to be closer to family, says a law freezing the pensions of Brits who have moved abroad is unfair. At the time she left, her pension was £72.50 a week; if she had stayed, it would now be worth £125.95 a week. She plans to present a petition of more than 200,000 signatures to the prime minister's residence. Mrs Puckridge, who campaigns for the International Consortium of British Pensioners, told the BBC the law has seriously diminished her quality of life. "I have to be so careful with what I spend. I have to be so careful with Christmas and birthdays especially - I can't indulge my family," she said. On Thursday, she will fly to London, where she …

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A gangster who was murdered in 1991 has been posthumously linked to a notorious unsolved art heist in which several masterpieces were stolen from a museum. Bobby Donati tried to sell a bronze eagle sculpture taken in the raid on Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner museum before his death a year later, retired appraiser Paul Calantropo has revealed. The expert said he recognised it as one of the 13 items stolen — which also included Rembrandt paintings — and told the known mobster it was worthless due to its infamy. He said he told Donati: ‘Jesus Bobby, why didn’t you steal the Mona Lisa?’ Two men dressed as police officers walked out of the museum with the $500million (£375million) haul of art on March 18, 1990. It remains the the biggest art heist ever seen on American soil. The stolen items also included an ancient Chinese beaker and paintings by Vermeer, Manet and Degas. More than 30 years later, they remain missing despite the offer of a $10million reward. …

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Published 17 October 2012 Share close Share page Copy link About sharing The body of a man washed up on a beach in Norfolk 23 years ago has been identified after DNA testing by police. Fishermen discovered the body at Weybourne in October 1989 but police were unable to work out who he was. Officers recently exhumed the body and got a DNA profile as a part of a new inquiry into missing persons cases. It matched a sample taken at the time from the family of Michael Sutherland, 34, who had gone missing from Cleethorpes in North East Lincolnshire. Since April 1990, he had lain buried in an unmarked grave at Weybourne cemetery, near Sheringham, following an unsuccessful six-month missing persons inquiry by police. Det Ch Insp Andy Guy said Mr Sutherland's body was exhumed in April 2011, and a DNA profile found from his teeth. 'Closure' for family The profile was run through the …

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WALES NEWS SERVICE Gaynor Jones, 87, has been dead for up to four years in the 19th Century stone cottage Sign up to receive our rundown of the day's top stories direct to your inbox SUBSCRIBE Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Gaynor Jones, 87, has been dead for up to four years in the 19th Century stone cottage full of hoarded possessions. Her daughter Valerie Jones is lucky to be alive after being discovered in the nick of time. Police worked their way through huge piles of clutter and hoarded possessions in their home after the alarm was raised by neighbours. Ms Jones, who is in her 50s, was discovered collapsed under mounds of papers - and was rushed to hospital. Related articles Defiant hoarder vows to fight council's …

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Consumer spending during the holiday shopping season will likely set records in Acadiana, just like nearly every market is the U.S. is predicting. Just how much is to be determined. Last year’s total retail sales in Lafayette Parish over November and December topped $1.2 billion last year, eclipsing the $1.17 billion spent in 2014 that was the highest on record. But that’s nothing: sales have topped the monthly totals from those years twice already in 2021, and they weren’t even holiday spending months. This month’s Lafayette Power Poll asked respondents about their spending plans this year and if they will do like many other Americans are planning to do: splurge. Nationwide spending is expected to shatter previous records, according to the National Retail Federation, and grow between 8.5% and 10.5% over last year. Will people in Lafayette spend more? Where do they plan on doing their shopping? And what’s their take on why spending has spiked in this COVID economy? “I think …

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Published 28 July 2016 Share close Share page Copy link About sharing The father of Suzy Lamplugh, who has been missing for 30 years, says he has little hope left of finding out what happened to her. Paul Lamplugh said his estate agent daughter knew "how to live life fully but no-one taught her how to be safe". The 25-year-old disappeared on 28 July 1986, after going to meet a client - named as Mr Kipper - in Fulham. Marking the anniversary, the Suzy Lamplugh Trust - a workplace safety charity - aims to raise £30,000. The trust - set up by Miss Lamplugh's parents in December 1986 - needs the cash for its Right To Be Safe appeal, designed to educate young people about their safety during working hours. Miss Lamplugh was officially declared dead in 1994, presumed murdered. 'Life is for living' Her 85-year-old father, who lives in the family home in East Sheen where Suzy, her …

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