EXCLUSIVE: Climate Spring, TK-FX, and indie British firm Lowkey Films have teamed on a new venture titled the Climate Short Animation Film Competition, in partnership with BBC Writers and in collaboration with BFI Network.
26.11.2023 - 05:11 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Animal lovers Clare and Phillip Boardman have built a hospital for rescue seals – complete with swimming pool – in the garden of their four-bedroom bungalow.
They spent £20,000 on the sanctuary at Dunnet Head, in Caithness.
The couple serve the seals a special fish soup, feed them around the clock – and Clare, 52, even taught one tiny pup, Glory, to swim because he was terrified of the water.
Glory was among 17 seals released so far, with eight more currently in the hospital.
The couple decided to build their seal hospital after helping rescue seals as volunteers for British Divers Marine Life Rescue.
Clare, 52, said: “We did a lot of seal rescues and they had to be taken down to Edinburgh. It’s a long trip for a sick or injured little pup, and a lot of them didn’t make it down. So we just decided we’d build our own.’
Clare says seals usually end up at the hospital because they’ve been disturbed by humans. She said: “Don’t move them, don’t touch them, don’t put them in the sea. I can get close to them because I know what I am doing, but the public should not do this.”
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EXCLUSIVE: Climate Spring, TK-FX, and indie British firm Lowkey Films have teamed on a new venture titled the Climate Short Animation Film Competition, in partnership with BBC Writers and in collaboration with BFI Network.
Susanna Reid has signed off from Good Morning Britain until next year, having announced she's taking an extended break to celebrate Christmas with her loved ones.The TV presenter, who celebrated her 53rd birthday on 10 December, fronted her final episode of GMB on Wednesday, 13 December alongside co-host Ed Balls, with the pair joined by guests including Stephen Fry. Susanna, who typically hosts the ITV show Monday to Wednesday, announced her departure at the end of Wednesday's show as she wished TV viewers a happy Christmas. "I would just like to say a huge Happy Christmas to you all.Thank you so much for watching this year.
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A Scots resident has been forced to remove two EV chargers from his front garden after turning it into a driveway without council permission.
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Rita Ora opted for a bold look as she headed to the British Fashion Awards 2023 with a prosthetic 'dinosaur spine'.The Masked Singer judge, 33, stunned as she stepped out on the carpet with her husband Taika Waititi in a long backless black ballgown that revealed a silver chromatic spine.The star shared that that she had teamed up with Primark to work on the look, which aimed to raise money for charity.The Hot Right Now hitmaker announced on Instagram that she would be selling 500 replicas of the dress worn to the event to raise funds for breast cancer. Talking about her look from last year's award ceremony, which included aquatic face prosthetics, she said: “We are going to the British Fashion Awards 2023.
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The heartbroken mum of a boy who fell down a manhole and died is to sue a construction firm over her son's tragic building site death. Shea Ryan, 10, died after he slipped on a ladder and fell inside the hole close to a play park near his home in Glasgow's Drumchapel on July 16, 2020.
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To paraphrase former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, some significant “known unknowns” emerged today in Jonathan Majors’ domestic violence trial.
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With I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! now well under way, a new host of celebrity campmates have captured the hearts of the nation with their unpredictable escapades while enjoying jungle life. Among them this year, is latecomer Tony Bellew, who entered the camp on day five of the exciting challenge and has been causing more than a stir among viewers at home after he appeared to be less than impressed after losing out on one of the tasks during week one of the series.
UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt wants North East England to get in on the all-consuming Barbie hype.
Do you prefer pea wet or gravy with your chippy tea? That is what new ‘ballot bins’ are asking Wiganers in a bid to stop cigarette ends being dropped on the floor.