Sarah Lewis

A British entrepreneur living in the Caribbean has been charged with assaulting four schoolgirls and raping two of them. The man, who cannot be named because of a gagging order made by the Cayman Islands' Grand Court (pictured), was charged with 18 counts of grooming and indecent assault against three juveniles. The charges include rape, sexual communication with a child, meeting a child following sexual communication and having indecent images of a child. The Brit pleaded not guilty to all the charges. Prosecutors accused him of posing as a teenager to groom and rape a child and said he also asked two young schoolgirls to have a threesome with him. He was reported to police at the end of 2023 after the mother of a young girl intercepted communications between her child and the British man. The police found 13,000 messages as well as indecent images and pornographic videos of a child on multiple mobile phones they seized from him. At the time, the alleged paedophile entrepreneur was already on bail while awaiting trial for five counts relating to a separate incident on similar charges involving a fourth alleged victim that took place in March 2023.

Welsh Labour's pledge to create a new park in the north-east of Wales was part of the party's manifesto in the last Senedd elections of 2021, with a decision not taken until 2026, the next election. However, many farmers in the large consulting area, which ranges from Powys to Denbighshire, are concerned that extra footfall would raise house prices, push young people out of their homes, and even damage rare local wildlife. A new park, which is currently priced at £700,000 per year, would be the first park to be built since 1957, but local councillors have told MailOnline that the £4 million annual expense of a national park is 'hard to justify' in the cost of living crisis. Farmers Sarah Lewis and her daughter Ellen (left), who live in north Powys, told the BBC that they are vehemently opposed to the scheme and that it will result in a influx of 'vast' numbers of tourists.

This is a sight that will break any bird-lover's heart. Myriad wild birds with vibrant plumage are on sale in Indonesia's crowded street markets, in tiny cages that have no room to open their wings. Captured from the forests of these islands' tens of millions, they are selling for as little as £1 in a trade that is so popular and ruthless that many species are on the verge of disappearing. Many people die before they are even sold. Survivors are paraded as trophies and sold as part of the burgeoning obsession with lucrative songbird competitions, where only the most recognizable and mellifluous birds are coveted.