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A ZOO owner’s wife is said to have leapt into a crocodile pit to save a three-year-old boy allegedly thrown in by a stranger.

Medicine shortages are posing a serious risk to patient safety, pharmacists have cautioned.

Gaming billionaire Gabe Newell has commissioned the world’s most expensive and advanced marine research vessel.

Exclusive testing shared with LBC found repeated signs of serious faecal contamination, with every sample from downstream of an outlet on the River Trent returning higher levels of E.coli than a sample taken from a pub toilet.

BBC director-general Matt Brittin has announced that 550 of the planned 1,800 to 2,000 job cuts at the corporation will be taken from BBC News and TV and radio-related roles.

The takeover of Iveco Defence Vehicles by the Italian defence giant Leonardo has, in the view of the managing director of IDV UK, transformed its British uncrewed vehicles business by finally handing it the muscle to move from prototypes into real production.

A US lawyer who sued tech giants Meta and Google for $6 million in a historic case after they were found liable for social media addiction has told LBC the UK ban is a "landmark moment" and said tech firms must be hit in the pocket.

The ceremony, staged by some of the military’s most prestigious regiments, saw the royal family in attendance, as the King join thousands of spectators and well-wishers in Whitehall for the annual event.

Days before the kickoff of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, there was no outward sign that this desolate, trash-strewn parking lot in New Jersey would soon become one of the priciest stretches of asphalt in the tri-state area.

Passengers are facing disruption through Friday after a bridge collapsed in a lorry crash.

Two children have died from measles in England this year, while more than 100 new cases have been reported in the past two weeks, health officials said on Thursday.

Twelve police officers have been injured and 16 people have been arrested in Northern Ireland following a second night of disorder in the wake of the Belfast knife attack.

Scotland’s commissioner for children and young people has called on the government to take urgent action to end the use of unsuitable temporary accommodation for children.

The 25-year-old Brit went into cardiac arrest after he smashed against the rocks on the secluded Percheles Beach on the Costa Calida in Mazarron in southeastern Spanish region Murcia.

A young girl who was hanging from a window ledge in Ilford for at least nine minutes was saved by a ‘complete stranger’.

A fire at a children’s soft play centre and mini zoo in Hertfordshire has resulted in the tragic death of all the animals inside the building.

A pedaling policeman on a mission to catch shoplifters has made more than 250 arrests in the last year alone.

Students at one of the country’s leading universities have been left exposed by a major cyber attack which could disrupt their exam marking.

West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has been banned from having contact with the club’s women’s and youth teams for the last three years because of safeguarding concerns.

European authorities seized more than 305,000 euro (roughly $352,000) in assets across southern Italy as part of an investigation into suspected fraud involving European Union pandemic recovery funds.

The remains of 119 drowned sailors might be exhumed to safeguard them from being uncovered due to coastal erosion.

The Bank of England has come out fighting after AI-generated videos of Andrew Bailey in conflict with Nigel Farage emerged as paid adverts on the social media platform X.

Hundreds of British civil servants are working from overseas while families are forced to forgo their summer getaways because of the cost of living crisis.