Tag Archives: Winter

One of the UK’s biggest energy providers is to compensate more than 11,000 customers, most of them vulnerable, for failing to pay electricity bill discounts on time. Ovo, the country’s fourth largest gas and electricity supplier, was more than 19 months late making the warm home discount payments and so …

Nicky Price,BBC Radio Gloucestershireand Carys Nally,West of England PA Media Health Secretary Wes Streeting said it is right to shine a spotlight on corridor care Patients are being cleaned and having their bloods taken in corridors as hospitals struggle to cope with demand, says a nurse. Matthew Stewart, a critical …

Adele Nicoll will make British history at the Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina, having being named in the Team GB squad for the 2026 Games. The 29-year-old from Welshpool becomes the first British female to compete in the monobob at a Winter Olympics. The event made its debut at the 2022 …

Parts of Russia’s Far East have been buried under its heaviest snowfall in 60 years, as scientists say the winter blast could be due to climate change affecting Arctic air patterns. In Kamchatka Peninsula, locals were seen shovelling in the streets, as rescuers helped people trapped in their homes. Public …

Gareth Davies The octopus was seen at low tide on North Beach in Tenby A photographer who was enjoying a walk on a popular Welsh beach says he became “completely absorbed” after spotting an octopus. Gareth Davies witnessed the “beautiful” orange cephalopod as it buried itself in the sand in …

Meanwhile, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Kirsty Coventry said she hopes next month’s Winter Olympics in Italy can demonstrate the “unifying effect” of sport at a time of geopolitical tension. US vice-president JD Vance is set to lead the US delegation at the opening ceremony of the Milan-Cortina Games on …

Bournemouth are closing in on a move worth about £30.6m for Vasco da Gama striker Rayan. The 19‑year‑old Brazilian is keen to join the Premier League to further his development, while there has also been interest from other European sides. There is now increased optimism at the Vitality Stadium that …

Moore’s grandfather, Venson Byfield, came to the UK in the Windrush generation and settled in Wales. She began her sporting career as an athlete – representing Wales at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – before switching to bobsleigh. Moore left the British winter sports programme in 2022 after claiming she had …

Former England opener Mark Stoneman has joined Somerset to work as a batting coach. The 38-year-old who played for Durham, Surrey, Middlesex and Hampshire over an 18-year county career has joined on an initial three-month consultancy basis. Stoneman scored 19,864 runs across the three formats of the game and played …

Rail passengers have been warned of disruption on Monday morning as weekend engineering work overruns. Work has been taking place on Brighton Mainline between Gatwick Airport, Redhill and Reigate, Purley and East Croydon. National Rail said on Sunday the work was not expected to be finished in time, with disruption …

Co-owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac sanctioned a summer net spend of more than £30m as Wrexham overhauled their squad to give themselves the best possible chance of being competitive in the second tier. The options Phil Parkinson has at his disposal are continuing to improve too as players return …

Great Britain’s Charlotte Bankes won her first Snowboard Cross World Cup race since breaking her collarbone in April with a dominant display in Dongbeiya. The 30-year-old showed she is in fine form heading into the Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina, moving through qualification at the Chinese resort as the fastest athlete, …

A community cafe in Telford is offering free breakfasts to people who are finding it difficult to access hot meals this winter. The Hummingbird Cafe, based at Meeting Point House in Southwater Square, is handing out the meals three times a week until the end of March. The cafe said …

Available for over a year Roger Federer once dubbed the Australian Open the “happy Slam” of the tennis calendar. It takes place in the middle of January, in the warm, sunny climes of Melbourne Park, a world away from the cold winters of northern Europe. But as the first Grand …

Tabby Stoecker has become the first British woman to win an overall skeleton World Cup medal for more than a decade. The 25-year-old secured bronze with a sixth-place finish in the final event of the season in Altenberg, Germany. Britain’s most recent medal in the competition was Lizzy Yarnold’s silver …

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A severe cold wave has tightened its grip on large parts of northern India, with temperatures hovering near zero in several states. On Thursday, the capital Delhi recorded its coldest morning so far this winter, with the temperature dropping to 2.9C. In neighbouring Haryana state, temperatures in some areas reportedly …

In a statement, the organisation explained its Interim Integrity Unit “dismissed the complaints as the current IBSF rules and regulations did not give grounds for a breach of the international rules, the code of conduct, and respectively the code of ethics”. However, it “noted that the Canadian coach and the …

Family handout David Clark died at the scene of the crash on 7 January A “devoted father” who died after he was hit by a police vehicle on an emergency call in south London has been named as David Clark. The Australian national, who lived in Winteringham, North Lincolnshire, was …

Rising demand for services has led an NHS trust serving Suffolk and Essex to declare a critical incident. East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust told the BBC it was facing “significant pressure”, including hospitals in Ipswich and Colchester. Earlier this month, the NHS reported a rise in flu …