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Faith Geraghty, from Wiltshire, is told the London Marathon will now recognise her championship entry.

Ms Geraghty originally had a race entry for April 2020, which was postponed due to the Covid pandemic. Ms Geraghty had been campaigning for the rules to change for a year. A mother who has successfully campaigned for the London Marathon to change its rules for postpartum entrants has said she is delighted.

Dave Walsh, who has Multiple Sclerosis, is the reigning World's Strongest Disabled Man.

"Family aside, Strongman is all I feel I've got. In September, Mr Walsh will be competing in an event in Birmingham called The Arnolds, with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone due to be in attendance. "Even if I start to lose the competitions, I still need to be involved with it somehow," he added.

£1,188 has been given to Crossroads, which supports carers and those with care needs. The funds will be used to train workers in how to spot the signs of mental ...

The trust works in collaboration with The National Lottery Community Fund to distribute lottery funding to good causes in the Isle of Man. The funds will be used to train workers in how to spot the signs of mental health issues early on. Staff from an Isle of Man charity will receive mental health first aid training thanks to a donation from the Manx Lottery Trust.

Boxes are left on the Ecrehous and Minquiers with masks, gloves and bags to collect carcasses.

The department said: "While the general advice remains not to touch or remove dead wild seabirds, in order to obtain fresh carcasses for testing, we are asking that visitors to the offshore reefs that feel comfortable doing so safely bring carcasses back." Although people are usually told to not touch dead seabirds, officials said carcasses needed to be tested within 24 hours for a virus to be identified. Visitors to the Ecrehous and Minquiers reefs off Jersey who discover dead seabirds are being asked to use safety equipment to collect them to be tested for bird flu.

Photographs from every continent except Antarctica show birds nesting or tangled in rubbish.

"It really just demonstrates the harm that humans are capable of imposing on the environment in a very short window of time across the world." PhD researcher Justine Ammendolia added: "For people seeing these images for the first time, it's alright to feel sad. "When you start looking for this stuff, you'll see it everywhere," he said.