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A Christchurch family are devastated their 20-year-old cat was handed to the SPCA and killed before they had a chance to save it.
The Clarke family of Halswell had Krumpet for 20 years.
Last Tuesday, father Gwyn Clarke was shocked to come home from work and find a note in his letterbox saying their female ginger cat [...]

A Mills %26 Boon paperback is sold in a UK bookshop on average every 6.6 seconds. Compare this to our domestic market for literary fiction, where some critically acclaimed novels sell so few copies that the author might well have been better to bypass the publishers and knock them off on a photocopier. As it [...]

People in the know - and yes, there are hundreds of avid geocachers all over the place - will tell you that geocaching is akin to a sophisticated treasure hunt where you use a hand-held satellite navigation system to lead you to the treasure. This treasure can take many forms - there are multi-caches and [...]

Within a year of arriving back from Hawaii, where she had been filming a BBC Natural World documentary showing plastic pollution on its beaches, there was barely a plastic bag in sight. Everybody from genteel old folk through to builders in hard hats had cornstarch shoppers swinging from their arms. Modbury had become Britain’s first [...]