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‘Dirty protests’ are being staged at beaches and rivers in Scotland and across the UK to demonstrate public fury over the high levels of toxic toilet waste ending up in seas and waterways around the country.

Scots are being urged to take part in a mass protest after sewage was released into Scotland’s waters more than 14,000 times last year.

Business owners in the cyclone-hit city are desperate to keep their doors open during the water crisis and are resorting to filling buckets and drums to do so.

A man banned from contacting council staff for six months is hoping to be elected as a councillor next week.

A man banned from contacting council staff for six months is hoping to be elected as a councillor next week.

By William James, Lucy Marks and Simon Jessop GLASGOW (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of protesters marched on Saturday through rainy downtown Glasgow, and in many other cities around the world, to demand bolder action at the U.N. climate conference. Students, activists and climate-concerned citizens linked arms as they moved slowly through the streets of the Scottish city, host of the COP26 meeting that began on Monday. Some pushed children in strollers, some danced to stay warm. Police watched t...

By William James, Lucy Marks and Simon Jessop GLASGOW (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of protesters marched on Saturday through rainy downtown Glasgow, and in many other cities around the world, to demand bolder action at the U.N. climate conference. Students, activists and climate-concerned citizens linked arms as they moved slowly through the streets of the Scottish city, host of the COP26 meeting that began on Monday. Some pushed children in strollers, some danced to stay warm. Police watched t...

Sol was camping with family at Fernhook Falls near Walpole, in southwest WA, over the last weekend of school holidays when he vanished from their campsite.

The boy’s family had expressed their thanks to all emergency services and volunteers involved in searching for their child after he went missing one week ago.

The body of an eight-year-old boy has been recovered by police after a desperate search was sparked when the boy fell out of a kayak in Western Australia.