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Rail passengers are being encouraged to ditch single-use plastic as they travel. Network Rail and Bristol-based environmental charity City to Sea have installed free water refill stations and signs and digital screens encouraging rail passengers to use bottles throughout Bristol Temple Meads station. City to Sea estimates around five million single-use plastic bottles are discarded across the county every day. "By placing refilling at the heart of one of the UK's busiest travel hubs, we empowered hundreds of thousands of people to refill rather than reaching for a plastic bottle,"...

Cheshire Police has become the first force in the UK to use artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool during stalking investigations. The force hopes the technology will identify suspects' patterns of behaviours at a much earlier stage. Det Ch Insp Danielle Knox, who leads its stalking unit, said that while AI would never "replace the human element", it would instead "enhance" what officers currently do. "We have ethics committees and checks and balances in place to make sure the algorithms work in the way we want them to," she said....

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Next 10 days crucial for farmers 'praying' for rain A twofold blow of record sunshine and low rainfall has left crops in "survival mode" and struggling to grow, a farmer has warned. The Met Office previously confirmed April 2025 saw the most sunshine in the UK since records began 115 years ago - with 47% more hours of sunshine than the long-term average. The recent weather follows England's wettest 18-month period between October 2022 and March 2024, which caused damage to the soil, according the Department of Environment and Rural...

Two engineers from Leicestershire are walking to work to raise awareness of men's mental health - except their office is 130 miles (209km) away. Jon O'Neill and Kevin Walkington, from the village of East Goscote, near Syston, are making the trip to their company's head office in Liverpool on foot. They are hoping to encourage men to open up about their mental health and to raise money for Foothold, a charity that supports engineers and their families. The two friends said they felt it was important they did something to...

Zoe's Place concert 'a thank you to Liverpool' A special concert to thank those who helped raise £7.4m to save a baby hospice from closure has been announced. The future of Zoe's Place in Liverpool was under threat last October when it was revealed the hospice would need to raise £5m within 30 days to fund a new premises. A high-profile campaign secured the money needed within weeks and Labour MP Ian Byrne, who spearheaded the fundraising drive, said the special event was "a thank you to the city". Merseyside...

'I'm a better version of me now I'm a nurse' A nurse who left Guernsey's hospitality industry to take up a role in mental health says the change has made her a "better version" of herself. Zory Darman first came to Guernsey to work at an island hotel before taking an assistant role at the hospital and training to become mental health nurse. She has shared her story as part of a move by Health and Social Care to encourage people living in Guernsey to take roles in healthcare and...

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How firms are coping one year after water parasite People in the south Devon fishing town of Brixham remember 15 May 2024 for all the wrong reasons. That was date the UK Health Security Agency confirmed the parasite cryptosporidium was present in tap water in the area, with South West Water (SWW) confirming the contamination of the water supply in the town the next day. A boil notice was issued for thousands of properties, with bottled water handed to stricken residents. More than 100 confirmed cases of the diarrhoea-type illness...