Wood burning stoves produce THREE TIMES more small particle air pollution than road traffic

Fashionable wood burning stoves are the UK’s single biggest source of particulate air pollution and produce three times more of the toxins than road traffic, Government data shows. DEFRA figures reveal domestic combustion created more than 47,000 tonnes of PM2.5 pollution in 2019 — 43 per cent of all PM2.5 particles produced. The vast majority … Read more

Hero doctor rescues Oxford vaccine doses from burning building after health centre burst into flames

Hero doctor rescues Oxford jab doses from burning vaccination centre after it burst into flames as people queued for Covid injections Doctor was seen pulling refrigerated container of vaccines from health centre  Patients were evacuated from Emberbrook Community Centre on Saturday Volunteers praise doctor’s heroic effort, saying: ‘It was his priority to get it out’ … Read more

Student in Zoom class gets a real-life lesson when he tries to put out a burning candle with water 

Flaming idiot! Bored student in Zoom class gets a real-life chemistry lesson when he tries to put out a burning candle with water Footage, which was recorded in London, shows a candle burning on the desk Young man attempts to extinguish the flame using water which escalates blaze  He starts to panic before carrying it into … Read more

Dramatic moment hero police officer runs into burning block of flats and rescues families and kids

Dramatic moment hero police officer runs into burning block of flats and rescues families and young children from inside as fire caused by cannabis farm rips through building PC Spencer Lunn put his life on the line to safely evacuate residents from inside The fire in Selly Oak, Birmingham, was caused by a cannabis farm … Read more

Heather burning on peat bogs to be banned in blow for moorland landowners and shooting parties

New regulations are to be brought in to prevent the burning of heather and other vegetation in a bid to better protect peatlands. The plans to bring forward legislation for protected blanket bog habitats have been welcomed as ‘vital’ for ‘globally important’ land. But the ban will be considered a blow to gamekeepers and to grouse … Read more

High Street retailers and luxury brands are BURNING or dumping EU products

High street retailers and luxury brands are burning or dumping products returned by EU customers due to the cost and trouble of bringing them back into the country – as online shoppers in Britain see prices rise by a third for items from Europe.  The Brexit trade deal has seen many customers rejecting goods that … Read more

Leonardo DiCaprio looks on as fire crew tend to a burning building on set of Don’t Look Up

Leonardo DiCaprio looks on as fire crew tend to a burning building during a riot scene for disaster movie Don’t Look Up By Heather Waugh For Dailymail.com Published: 18:42 GMT, 11 January 2021 | Updated: 18:51 GMT, 11 January 2021 With filming continuing amid the coronavirus pandemic, Leonardo DiCaprio was pictured back on set of … Read more

Father and son leap from burning house shouting ‘where’s Mum?’ after ‘earthquake-like’ explosion

A father and son were seen leaping from their blazing home before asking ‘where’s mum?’ after an ‘earthquake-like’ explosion blasted the walls off their Yorkshire home. Liam McLaughlin and his son Jack were filmed jumping through the flames from a staircase inside their home in Illingworth, West Yorkshire, on Saturday.  Jack, who is in his … Read more

Romain Grosjean’s visor MELTED as he sat in the burning wreckage of his horror crash

REVEALED: F1 driver Romain Grosjean’s helmet visor MELTED as he sat in the burning wreckage of 140mph horror crash that split his car in half at the Bahrain Grand Prix, with 34-year-old set to leave hospital tomorrow after treatment for his burns Romain Grosjean’s helmet visor melted as he sat in his burning car on … Read more

Woman dies under collapsed ceiling moments after saving five children from burning house in Russia

Mother’s ultimate sacrifice: Woman dies under collapsed ceiling moments after saving her five children from burning house in Russia Gulnara Kostelnyuk, 31, died in the fire in Yakutsk, east Russia, on Wednesday The mother-of-five rescued her sleeping children from their burning home She was killed by a falling wooden beam in front of her 14-year-old … Read more