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Lost cars and speeding fines: the truth about airport parkingWhen you’re leaving on holiday, you need to know you can trust your valet – but some people are just being taken for a rideWith trains beset by strikes, and taxis astronomically expensive, airport valet parking may seem to holidaymakers like the best option this summer. It sounds straightforward: you drive to the terminal, hand over your car and keys to staff and, while they park, you relax in an airport bar. Your vehicle is now someone else’s concern until you touch down again at your vacation’s end.But what actually happens after you bid it farewell? Possibly not what you think.
Huge python spotted slithering across Southampton roof and into bedroom window
Monkey who was flushed down lavatory and offered cocaine settles with ‘boyfriend’ A monkey who was flushed down the lavatory and offered cocaine by its abusive owner is now “learning to trust again” with the help of a ‘boyfriend’.Milly the marmoset was rescued by the RSPCA after cruel videos emerged of Vicki Holland, 39, abusing the animal at her home in Newport, Gwent.The mother-of-four filmed herself flushing the monkey while it clung to a lavatory bowl and offering it cocaine while it cowered in a pile of clothes.Holland was banned from keeping any animals for life after pleading guilty to three Animal Welfare Act offences in December last year.Now the RSPCA has given an update on the monkey who has a ‘boyfriend’ called Moon - and the pair are inseparable at Monkey World, a specialist facility in Dorset.
Prince Harry and Meghan turn down puppy to adopt older rescue beagle
Bull with horns on fire gores man to death at Spanish festival A young Spanish man has been gored to death by a bull with its horns set on fire as part of a local festival.Adrian Martínez Fernández, 24, was buffeted by the half-tonne animal in the town of Vallada in Valencia on Sunday.Footage of the incident showed how the bull, whose horns were set alight as part of a tradition for the annual bull-running festival, gored Mr Martínez as terrified spectators watched just a foot away behind protective railings.Torture is Not Culture, an animal rights group, said the latest death in a bull-running event brought the number of fatalities in these activities to ten this year so far.In 2013, the then conservative government declared bullfighting part of the national heritage which should be protected throughout Spain, effectively blocking any attempts to ban the practice.
Dogs’ risk of canine dementia rises by more than 50% each year, study findsIf you can’t teach your old dog new tricks, it could be an ominous sign. Researchers have found the odds of a canine having doggy dementia rises by more than 50% with each year of age.While dementia is a well-known condition in humans, dogs can experience a similar decline in cognitive function, with symptoms including disrupted sleep, forgetfulness, walking into things, difficulties adapting to change and getting lost.