Tag Archives: Animals

Lynn’s Mill House Veterinary Surgery and Hospital has said it’s there to help, but it has had to review the services it can offer due to the coronavirus pandemic. Human health and prevention of disease transmission is a priority, it said following the Government’s announcement that people should stay at …

Royal Mail has stopped deliveries to a Southmead man’s home after his son’s dog bit a postwoman. Steven Wood appeared at Bristol Magistrates’ Court after the American Bulldog sunk its teeth into Gemma Notton’s calf. The 66-year-old, of Glencoyne Square, admitted being in charge of a dangerously out of control …

Residents have been told their post deliveries have been suspended after a dog attacked a mail worker. Royal Mail has written to households in Estuary Road, Sheerness to tell them the firm has suspended deliveries. A Royal Mail postman. Stock picture The note explains a worker had been attacked while …

With the birds front-lit against a darkening sky, this photograph of swans at Linlithgow in Scotland may look like a glorious nature scene, but the reality behind it is a little different. On the day it was taken – 6 April 2006 – bird flu was found in a dead …

Posties have stopped delivering mail to a row of houses after coming under attack by aggressive seagulls. Royal Mail staff have been left injured and cowering in fear in their vans, residents have claimed. Homeowners in the quiet street in Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, have been forced to protect themselves with umbrellas. …

A slight ripple in the wind behind me, the briefest graze of my hair and, within a split second, the ice-cream cone had been snatched from my hand. One second I was holding a mint choc chip, the next I wasn’t. It was so fast, and the raid so precise, …