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During the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, Backshall began developing a railway in the garden of his home in Willingdon, East Sussex (Image Credit: George Carden/BBC) A former railway engineer has transformed his garden in East Sussex into an unusual working railway, complete with full-size track, a vintage-style carriage and railway memorabilia. Railway Magazine, which featured…

The stolen funds were used for a range of personal expenses, according to federal prosecutors. Some of the money financed Ream’s wedding, while additional funds went toward luxury international travel. For four years, a credit supervisor at a Long Island health care products company had access to a pool of money intended for customer refunds….

(Image credit: Masato Hattori) More than three decades after a partial ankylosaur skull was first discovered in a Hokkaido riverbank deposit, researchers have formally named it as a new genus and species, Nipponopelta yezoensis, the first ankylosaur ever formally named from Japan. The study, ‘A new nodosaurid ankylosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous Hikagenosawa…

A quarry in Florennes, Wallonia, is combining solar power with sheep farming in a 3.3-hectare agrivoltaic project. Calcaires Agri Énergie, in partnership with Ether Energy, developed the project, which places 3,240 photovoltaic panels above land used for sheep grazing. The panels have a total capacity of 2.27 MWc and are raised above the ground with…

Trump pays tribute as 2024 rally shooting victim James Copenhaver dies James Copenhaver, who was among those injured in the 2024 shooting at then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign rally, died, his family told CNN.Copenhaver was injured when a gunman opened fire at Trump’s campaign rally in Pennsylvania’s Butler, on July 13, 2024, during the…

Built in Glasgow in the 1860s, the City of Adelaide began life as an iron-hulled passenger and mail steamer before undergoing several transformations that eventually left it stranded off Magnetic Island in Queensland. After becoming a coal-storage hulk, the vessel was badly damaged by fire in 1912 and later bought with plans to give it…

Pope Leo XIV on Friday defended the media’s right to cover public figures, following US President Donald Trump’s unsuccessful efforts to bar some news outlets critical of his administration from the White House.The pope spoke to reporters aboard the papal plane en route to France for a four-day visit. Asked by a CNN reporter about…

Fast Lab allegedly used customers’ insurance details to bill for COVID-19 tests that were never provided. (AI image) Americans who ordered Covid-19 tests advertised as ‘no cost’ online during the pandemic were allegedly at the centre of a healthcare fraud scheme that generated more than $500 million in false claims, according to the US Department…

California crews uncover possible 45-million-year-old ‘thunder beast’ fossils in Oceanside (Image Credit: City of Oceanside) A routine infrastructure project in Oceanside, California, has led to an unexpected discovery from deep beneath the ground: fossilised bones that may have belonged to a huge hoofed mammal that lived as long as 45 million years ago. According to…

Children’s toys are designed to attract attention with bright colours, sounds and lights, but some of those features can also introduce safety risks. On September 24, 2026, the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced the recall of approximately 43,674 light-up children’s toys because their battery compartments do not meet mandatory safety requirements.The recalled…