Marden loses broadband and phones after car crash

A village has been left without broadband connection and landline phones following a car accident. A collision between a Royal Mail van at the junction of Chantry Road and Church Green in Marden, resulted in one of the vehicles smashing into a green telecommunications junction box. The damaged junction box …

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Could you help with PTES garden wildlife survey?

Wildlife charity People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) asks volunteers to record sightings of mammals such as hedgehogs, bats, badgers and foxes spotted in gardens, parks and other green spaces. Running throughout 2023, the survey helps conservationists at PTES to understand how urban wildlife is faring and which species need …

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Moose pops into Alaska hospital building to snack on plants

The ingenious – or lucky – moose triggered the sensors on the automatic doors to the Providence Alaska Health Park building in Anchorage that houses the hospital’s cancer centre and other medical offices, said Randy Hughes, the hospital’s director of security. “We received a call from one of our tenants …

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