A British couple have reconnected more than 100 families with their loved ones on a Tongan island after the eruption of an undersea volcano and tsunami cut a vital communications cable. Kate Walker, 44, and Joe Caesar, 41, lived on the island of Vava’u for eight years after moving there in 2012 and have been the only point of contact to the outside world for the entirety of its population, passing hundreds of messages on to those fearing for the safety of their friends and family.Ms Walker, who

Most of the time, Donna Anderson loves living in Barton-under-Needwood, a sweet Staffordshire village on the banks of the Trent and Mersey canal. There is just one problem.... Severn Trent Water dumped sewage into the stream in Barton-under-Needwood once a month on average in 2020, the most recent year that figures are available. This might sound like a nasty isolated incident, but sadly it is not.... Together, the two pipes were pumping sewage into the river for more than 8, 000 hours in 2020

The English Channel is a notoriously difficult place to dive.... For inexperienced divers, both can pose significant risks, so meticulous preparation is crucial.... But recently, the old landscape’s eroding away, which is how we found this.” The structures, Mr Momber said, are of “ international significance ”....