Jeremy Clarkson has described how he keeps the grass at his Cotswolds pub green despite facing a hosepipe ban amid the country's crippling drought.

Mr Clarkson, whose Diddly Squat farm was made famous by his Amazon Prime series, shared a tactic he used at his Farmer's Dog pub to access water.

Aerial images from above the pub on Monday showed much of the grass remaining lush green while some patches and the neighbouring fields were parched brown.

The former Top Gear host, who has been filming for the sixth series of Clarkson's Farm in recent months, revealed the trick while speculating on the health of Sir Rod Stewart's lawn in Essex.

Sir Rod, 81, has managed to keep the sprawling gardens at his Grade II-listed Essex mansion in rude health despite being covered by Affinity Water's hosepipe ban.

There is no evidence the singer has breached the ban at the ten-bedroom property he bought for £4.65million in 2013 and moved into with wife Penny Lancaster three years

A beauty spot in the Dolomites has been swamped by tourists searching for a local delicacy as the mountain range comes under increasing pressure from crowds of visitors.

The Alpine region is known as one of the most scenic spots in Italy with its cable cars, mountain views and hiking trails luring millions of holidaymakers a year.

This summer is no different. Videos show tourists waiting hours at an altitude of 2,300m in 'crazy' winding queues for a cabin's famed cream-filled doughnuts.

Visitors wake up in the early hours of the morning to get their hands on the sweet treat before they sell out at the Rifugio Friedrich August hut on the Langkofel mountain near the border with South Tyrol. 

Some have even reported camping out just to guarantee themselves a doughnut. 

Furious locals have become fed up with holidaymakers more concerned with social media photos than appreciating the region's natural beauty, while unimpressed TikTok users called the viral spot a 'tourist trap'.

One wrote under a video of queues: 'Pretty much all if the huts/refugios in the Alps have great traditional high quality locally/home-made food. 99%

Outgoing Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace hit back at the media firestorm caused by her newly posted bikini photos that revealed no fewer than nine new tattoos.

The 48-year-old South Carolinian bared her tattooed arms in a bikini during a high-octane introduction for Get Maced, featuring her surfing and firing an automatic weapon.

Her posts caused a stir on the internet, with Fox News commentator Raymond Arroyo calling it 'a cry for help.'

However, Mace addressed the controversy and seemed baffled by all the concern over her physical appearance in a post on social media.  

'Thoughts and prayers to all those affected by my sleeves. Made the mistake of opening my social media this afternoon. Some of y'all are OUT OF CONTROL,' Mace wrote. 

'My biceps should NOT be a news story. We have more important things to worry about. Goodness. And God Bless America.'

Arroyo joined the chorus of commentators on Laura Ingraham's show Monday suggesting that Mace's actions could even have a negative effect on other women.

'My heart goes out to her and it sounds like there was some

Hayden Panettiere's heartbroken father was only beginning to recover from his son's untimely death when the actress was found dead on Sunday, neighbors revealed.

The former child star, who was known for her roles on the hit NBC series Heroes and musical drama Nashville, died at an Airbnb in Greenville, South Carolina from an apparent overdose.

Her death at the age of 36 comes just three years after her brother, Jansen, passed away in February 2023 from complications with his 'enlarged' heart. He was 28.

Their father, Alan 'Skip' Panettiere, 'retreated' from his close-knit community of Piermont, New York in the aftermath, a neighbor told the New York Post.

Another claimed he finally 'seemed like he was starting to come back from it' when he learned that his daughter was dead. She had just visited him the month before, the neighbors said.

A friend of the late actress said she had also planned to take a trip to visit her 11-year-old daughter, Kaya, in Ukraine, where she lives with her father, former heavyweight boxer 

A professional trail runner has described the terrifying moment she was attacked by a brown bear while running alone on a familiar trail in Alaska.

Klaire Rhodes was running on the Wolverine Bowl Trail near Anchorage's Prospect Heights trailhead on Thursday morning when she encountered the predator.

The North Face athlete managed to deploy her bear spray during the attack before escaping and making her way back to the trailhead on her own.

Rhodes was later taken to a hospital with a deep puncture wound to her left hip and claw and teeth marks across her body.

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A finance manager who moved to France despite bosses telling her she had to work from the UK tried to sue for unfair dismissal after she was sacked.

Iryna Malyk, who worked from home, was given 'express instruction' she would lose her job if she moved abroad because it would cause tax and legal issues. She still decided to relocate, saying she 'disagreed' with the rule – but was fired as a result.

Ms Malyk tried to sue Teleperformance Contact for unfair dismissal, arguing her role was 'fully remote'. But a tribunal threw out her claim, finding she had been required to 'work from her home in the UK'.

The case raises questions over whether companies in Britain should allow their staff to 'work from home' while abroad in the post-Covid era.

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The fate of the Kinahan cartel was sealed in the summer of 2021 when two men who never met before shook hands in one of the US Treasury Department's most opulent rooms.

Before the late Assistant Garda Commissioner John O'Driscoll walked through the door leading into the Grant Room in the Treasury building, the then Head of Global Targeting for Sanctions had never heard of the Kinahans.

And if sanctions were to be imposed, the quietly-spoken senior garda had to convince not only Greg Gatjanis but ultimately then President Joe Biden, that the Dublin crime lords posed a significant threat to the United States.

Recalling how the late Assistant Garda Commissioner convinced him the Kinahans were an American problem, Mr Gatjanis told the Irish Mail on Sunday: 'We were a very small office for having such an enormous mandate, and the reasons I explain that is we had to be very judicious about where we put our resources.

'We really had to make sure that every target we agreed to investigate was going to be a viable target.

'I asked a colleague "what's the connection [of the

A group of fishermen rescued a missing dog they found swimming on its own in the ocean.

The men were sailing near Cedros Island, Baja California, off the coast of Mexico in the early morning when they made the unusual discovery.

The 'completely lost' dog was not wearing a collar or harness and was paddling away from the beach about a mile from shore.

Stopping the boat, the captain encouraged the dog to come closer and pulled him aboard to safety.  

The exhausted animal relaxed on board and was given fresh water and food, before becoming the crew's 'unexpected fishing partner'.

A man on the boat who filmed the heartwarming rescue said: 'After fishing for half the day we came back to the dock and we're going to drop off the dog that we saved, then we're going to continue fishing.'

When they returned to land, someone at the dock recognised the pooch and reunited it with its owner.

The fishing group wrote in a post on Instagram: 'At 6:00 AM, while heading out for a day of fishing off Cedros Island, our captain spotted something

A tiny Maine town has descended into political turmoil after vicious Facebook feuds spilled into public meetings, drove officials from office and required police intervention.

Clifton, a community of just 877 people located 20 minutes east of Bangor, has become divided by personal attacks exchanged through rival local Facebook groups.

The online war has seen an elected official's mugshot, property deed and photographs of his family repeatedly published, according to the Bangor Daily News.

The bitter dispute has even led to harassment complaints and explosive confrontations at town meetings.

Meanwhile, Clifton is struggling with more than $2 million in debt, the firing of its town clerk and allegations that Select Board members have been meeting without one another.

The turmoil reached Maine's highest court after two misplaced absentee ballots determined the winner of a March Select Board election by a single vote.

Steve Armenia initially lost the race to Cynthia Grant, who received 114 votes to his 113.

But officials later discovered two unopened absentee ballots that had not been included in the count.

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This is the horrendous moment when muggers shove a 90-year-old woman with dementia to the ground before stealing her necklace and wedding ring.

The incident happened right outside the pensioner's home on Morris Avenue in Newham, east London, on July 17, and left her with bruises on her face and cuts on her elbows.

The woman's daughter - who wishes to remain anonymous -  explained her mother has advanced dementia and needs to follow a particular routine every day to ease her condition.

Part of the routine is to walk to the shop in the morning and then sweep outside the house. It was at this point that the opportunistic thieves struck.

CCTV appears to show the woman being called to a car stopped on the street nearby.

The daughter said: 'What you can see on the footage is hands going in and out of the car and they take the chain off mum's neck. We're not sure how they get the ring off their finger.

'They sped off and pushed her to the ground and she was found on the curb by a neighbour - that's as far as we know.' 

Syrian court on Tuesday issued a death sentence to detainee Wassim al-Assad, a cousin of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad. 

Judge Fakhr al-Din al-Aryan said Wassim al-Assad was convicted of multiple murders and 'murder accompanied by torture and brutality... classified as crimes against humanity and war crimes', adding that 'he is therefore sentenced to death'.

Wassim al-Assad faced a range of charges, including setting up and leading paramilitary groups since 2011. 

He was also charged with taking part in military operations targeting civilians in Eastern Ghouta that resulted in the deaths of ordinary Syrian citizens. 

He is the first member of the al-Assad family to be sentenced in person. 

His sentence comes just a week after the brutal dictator was himself sentenced in absentia to death for crimes against humanity. 

Bashar al-Assad and his brother Maher al-Assad were both sentenced in absentia as they live in exile in Russia. 

Judge Fakhr al-Din al-Aryan, who also oversaw the dictator's case, said Bashar 'used state agencies to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity.'  

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