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David Watters knew six-year-old French bulldog called Tyson was poorly, but claimed he was too skint to pay care bills.

Deal does not include Butlin’s property assets that were sold earlier this year to a private pension fund

Google and a team of university researchers have hit on what they say could be an effective way to make people more impervious to the harmful impact of online misinformation

It’s been nearly two decades since the oil giant BP released a calculator to help consumers figure out all the ways carbon was creeping into their lives, from commuting to work to buying food. The PR campaign was wildly successful: It popularized the very idea of an individual “carbon footprint.”