Garden owners have been encouraged to replace their pond netting with a wildlife-friendly solid metal mesh.

Missiles hit not just military targets but civilian building, Daria Matveytseva said.

Inna Sovsun said Russia faces ‘huge logistic problems’ and ‘their whole strategy is a way to lose’.

Valentina Butenko is back in the UK for a week while she organises military supplies, including body armour, to send to her country.

Inna Sovsun said the rollout of sanctions against Russia ‘isn’t on the same speed as the rollout of the atrocities of the war’.

Inna Sovsun joined hundreds of fellow MPs in the Verkhovna Rada in Kyiv on Thursday.

Ian Umney said he has a ‘tea in hand’ after arriving in the city of Nikopol.

Anna Proskurnina, 24, slept in her bath on Monday night listening to bombs fall on her city.

Ian Umney is travelling to Nikopol in the south-east of the country to be with his wife and two-year-old.

Inna Sovsun has abandoned her home in northern Kyiv and not seen her son for five days.

Manny Marotta described the ‘brutal’ 20-hour journey, seeing toddlers ‘dragged out of bed’ and Ukrainian men being conscripted to fight ‘on the spot’.

University College London student Valentina Butenko has been in Ukraine for the last few weeks, joining the Ukrainian Women’s Guard.

Various videos posted to Twitter and Facebook depict destruction on Ukrainian streets after Russia began military action in the country.

The Government has been criticised by locals for not preparing the town after severe floods hit the area in November 2019.

Bryn Richards, a university student from Norwich, was fined £1,995 for participating in a gathering outdoors of more than two people in November 2020.

The account @GOVUK sent a series of responses to Twitter users which suggest rules were broken in Downing Street.

Cornel Grant has worked at Stagecoach since 1982 and said his new British Empire Medal will not change him.

Faiz Mohammad Seddeqi said his father was tortured by the Taliban after he was evacuated to the UK.

The manager of the Tan Hill Inn in the Yorkshire Dales, which was hit by a blizzard on Friday, claimed some guests ‘don’t want to leave’.