This week, millions of people around the world are celebrating Holi, the Hindu festival of love, color and spring. CNN reports that during the celebration of Holi, people take to the streets and drench each other in colorful powders and buckets of water.
The former culture secretary stayed true to form by sticking up for her old boss on Twitter.
An injured seal was left whimpering after it became stranded on the cobblestones of a harbour for more than 24 hours. Heartbreaking video shows fisherman Kit Gallagher approaching the poor creature 'crying for help' after the tide brought it to shore. Kit, 50, found the young seal when he was checking on his boat in the harbour at Bridlington, Yorks., and notified a nearby Sea Life Centre upon discovery. He returned to the scene the next day to find the vulnerable animal still hadn't moved from the cobblestones and was still in distress. Kit said: "I came to the harbour to check on my boat and was told by a friend that a seal was on the south slope and it didn't look very well and that he thought it had a poor flipper. "I phoned Scarborough Sea Life and told them where it was. "I came back at 8am the next morning and found it still there and made an update video as I had thousands of people asking for an update. "I was told a call had already been made to the Sea Life Centre, so I went home and came to check a few hours later. "When I came back the seal was gone and I was told that the seal rescue had been with it all afternoon. "I was told by someone on the harbour that they had taken it, I think the seal arrived that morning as the tide was coming up." British Divers Marine Life Rescue were called out to the scene but the seal had gone by the time they arrived. A spokesperson for the charity said: "We didn't pick up this seal in but we did pick up another one that we kept overnight and then released the next day." It is a busy time of year for seals up and down the east coast as they regularly rest on beaches and in harbours. The charity added: "If you find a seal on a beach, watch it from a distance. Do not approach the animal. "Seals regularly haul out on our coasts - it is part of their normal behaviour and, in fact, they spend more time out of the water, digesting their food and resting than in it. "Therefore, finding a seal on the beach does not mean there is necessarily a problem and do not chase it into the sea as this may stop it from doing what it needs to do - rest. "A healthy seal should be left alone." They concluded that this seal would have returned to the water itself. The footage was filmed on March 17.
Bryn Hargreaves, who was 36 at the time, was reported missing in January last year
A total of 33 people have been injured after a ship dislodged in a dry dock in Edinburgh, the Scottish Ambulance Service has said. A major rescue operation was launched at Imperial Dock in Leith after the vessel lurched towards its right-hand side. The Scottish Ambulance Service sent five ambulances, an air ambulance, three trauma teams and other resources to the scene, while the fire service and police also attended after being alerted at 8.35am.
This is the shocking moment a Mayfair pedestrian was rammed to the ground and attacked by moped muggers who snatched a £211,000 watch from his wrist. CCTV captured the moment one of the robbers mounted the pavement and drove into the back of Mr Karkar, sending him hurtling to the ground. Moments earlier, Michael McKeown had been chased and also knocked down by one of the moped riders in an unsuccessful bid to steal his £75,000 Audemars Piguet watch.
The CCTV footage also showed Craig Parker pursue and tackle his brother’s killer to the ground inside the station before the pair were separated by security staff
Roughly 70 firefighters have tackled a huge blaze that broke out at a hotel in central London. Half the ground floor of the five-storey building in Craven Road, Paddington, was alight at the height of the fire on Thursday evening. London Fire Brigade was called to the scene at around 4.40pm.
A motorist who had been banned from driving sparked a 140mph police chase which led to his arrest on Monday. The man had attended a hearing at Harrogate Magistrates’ Court where he was disqualified from driving. Despite being banned from driving, he proceeded to drive away from court where he was followed by local police officers.
ReutersWhen the mayor of a small town in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai told the notorious Wagner Group over the weekend that he didn’t want the area to become the new dumping ground for dead mercenaries, he apparently thought he had a say in the matter.He didn’t. And Yevgeny Prigozhin, the cutthroat founder of the group, would soon make that frighteningly clear—with threats to dump dead bodies on his doorstep instead.Prigozhin’s fighters backed their boss up, releasing a video of themselves armed to t
An RAF squadron leader will serve nine months in jail for a sex attack that drove a fellow officer to attempt suicide.
A man has appeared in court accused of carrying out and broadcasting castrations on his "eunuch maker" website. Marius Theodore Gustavson, 45, is one of a group of men arrested on Wednesday in London, Scotland and South Wales. Gustavson, 45 and originally from Norway but living in London, is accused of being the ringleader.
A police officer was shot as Germany rounded up members of a radical network plotting to overthrow the state and reinstate the Kaiser in a violent coup.
Leaving drinks for No 10 staff ‘essential’ during lockdown, former PM tells committee
A man has died after being stabbed in the heart near a north London Tube station. Stefan Stelian Moraru, 44, died following an assault on Chandos Avenue, near Totteridge & Whetstone Tube station. Police officers and London Ambulance Service attended and found the Romanian national at the scene in Barnet at roughly 6am on Monday.
The Lyric Hammersmith has been criticised for leaving female theatregoers “uncomfortable” with their gender-inclusive lavatories which feature five urinals and one cubicle.
Video showing a black teenage boy was allegedly tackled to the floor and handcuffed by two civilian security “Rangers” as he was “buying shampoo” in a pharmacy in Sussex. Video from his Mother posted on Twitter.
Jurors at Fiona Beal’s trial were shown two selfies which she took in a Northampton bedroom in February last year – three months after the killing of Nicholas Billingham.
A team of policemen have been accused of stepping on a sleeping infant during a search operation
Sophie Weinstein, a citizen of the Karuk Nation, was told to remove the basket at the Portland Art Museum
JK Rowling has attacked the frontrunner to replace Nicola Sturgeon over his pledge to protect women's rights, accusing him of backing legislation that would have allowed rapists to be housed in women's prisons.
