Tim Prater, a councillor from Kent, was flabbergasted to find 210 bags of dog poo along a single path this week.

A group of squatters that occupied a home in Washington state returned just one day after 30 sheriff’s deputies carried out a SWAT raid on the property.

Officers said an outlook to the street was ‘impossible’ and described the ‘small’ basement window as allowing ‘very little light in’.

A fisherman has warned pet owners to keep their dogs out of the water after spotting a shark next to a popular off-leash dog beach on Wednesday morning.

A family of Texas ranchers say that the good life they knew just a few years ago is no more due to the influx of migrants flooding across the border and attempting to break into their home.

Cars were logjammed up and down the country, with snaking queues spotted in Hertfordshire, Cumbria, Westmorland and Telford.

Vets have revealed incidents of leptospirosis – which thrives in the wet – have surged 250 per cent rise from February to September as floods ravaged the east coast.

Campaigners described new guidance to help with the valuation of cladding-hit flats as ‘well-meaning’ but had ‘serious concerns’ about how effective the new approach would be.