Doncaster's top animal attraction, Yorkshire Wildlife Park, will tonight be featured in Channel 5's new show Big Week at the Zoo. The show, which airs tonight at 8pm, will see Helen Skelton and Nick Baker visit the attraction, at Branton, to celebrate the conservation work carried out by British zoos. The zoo is known for its conservation efforts, which have been instrumental in protecting a range of endangered animals. The park is home to more than 400 animals, including the country's only four polar bears, many of them endangered species. Here's just some of the animals you can see there.Rosie and GlendaThe pair are endangered sulcata tortoises, which can live to around 80-years-old, and have been classified as vulnerable because of disappearing habitat in their native central Africa. They moved in to the Wildlife Park in July.Victor, Pixel, Nissan, Nobby and TongkiThe Wildlife Park's resident polar bears an often be spotted roaming in Project Polar, which includes dens, … [Read more...] about Doncaster Wildlife Park set to feature in new Channel 5 show
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Netflix users are threatening to QUIT over this controversial new feature
NETFLIX is testing ads between TV shows – and users are furious. The company confirmed that some users are now seeing video advertisements between episodes of a shown you're watching. Netflix has always taken a firm stance against show ads, with the CEO once pledging never to introduce them. But users on Reddit recently reported seeing video ads on the site. One said: "Netflix forced me to watch an unskippable ad for Better Call Saul [a Netflix TV show]." Netflix confirmed that trial to TechCrunch, adding that not all users will see the ads. Instead, a select few will get them as a way to test whether Netflix should roll them out to everyone. The full-screen videos are personalised to the user. So when you're moving from one episode of a show to the next, Netflix will show you an ad for another TV show that it thinks you'll like. Unsurprisingly, Netflix customers are furious about the move. "Netflix, the day I see an ad while watching a movie or TV, I will unsubscribe," said one … [Read more...] about Netflix users are threatening to QUIT over this controversial new feature
Whitehouse show will feature garden gurus
Want to read more?We value our content and our journalists, so to get full access to all your local news updated 7-days-a-week – PLUS an e-edition of the Campbeltown Courier – subscribe today for as little as 56 pence per week. Subscribe NowA village’s inaugural garden event will feature tips from green-fingered experts. Whitehouse village hall is the venue for Grow and Show on Saturday August 25, from noon to 3pm. It is billed as non-competitive friendly opportunity for villagers to bring the produce of their gardens and show others their successes, whether big or small.Three experts will offer tips – former forester Iain Maclachlan, a rose specialist and judge at both Tarbert and Islay flower shows; vegetable grower and Tarbert show judge Bobby McColl and Bill McHugh, from Skipness, who brings 50 years experience horticulture and commercial growing. The event is open to villagers from Clachan, Skipness, Tarbert and Tayinloan as well as the hosts … [Read more...] about Whitehouse show will feature garden gurus
Ridiculous Sharknado 6 trailer features dragon sharks, robot sharks
The final trailer has been released for Sharknado 6, and it teases what may just be the most outrageous shark movie ever made. The video features dragon sharks, a robot shark, a shark riding a surfboard along the beach and even a giant shark killing a Tyrannosaurus rex. Tara Reid amazed by Sharknado success Arnold Schwarzenegger joins Kung Fury Time travel explained in less than a minute "In the ending moments of Sharknado 5: Global Swarming, Fin was seen wandering alone on Earth after it was destroyed," says SyFy, distributor of the Sharknado films. "Now he must travel back in time to stop the Sharknado that started it all. Will Fin and the gang be able to set everything right and save the world once and for all?" The time travel plot appears to be echoing Transformers: The Last Knight and Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, with the main characters fighting sharks in Merlin's Castle, with cowboys in the Wild West, with Benjamin Franklin and in a dystopian future. Fin, played by … [Read more...] about Ridiculous Sharknado 6 trailer features dragon sharks, robot sharks
Island features in book by ex-resident
0 Post a comment Monday, 20 August 2018 - Arts The Isle of Man features in a new book written by Liverpool resident Allison Jones. Largely autobiographical, the book describes Mrs Jones’s life working in a variety of jobs while living in the island for more than 10 years and it also includes some scenic shots of parts of the island, such as Peel Castle.It also describes how she discovered the man she took to be her father was not, and her eventual meeting, back in the UK, with her biological father.’’I came to the Isle of Man when I was 17 and stayed until I was 30,’ she said.’I still go back regularly because I know lots of people that I met through work.’During her time in the island, she lived in Peel and worked in several pubs in the town, including the Creek and the Marine Hotel, as well as getting a job in the Isle of Man prison, then at Victoria Road in Douglas.She was also engaged to bemarried to a Manxman but the relationship ended. … [Read more...] about Island features in book by ex-resident