A natural gas line leak triggered the house explosion, injuring six people and damaging several nearby properties.

US & Canada

Clare Jones wants to make the festive season “a bit more magical” after realising it would be her last Christmas.

Wales

The barge that wrecked in 1918, famous for a dramatic rescue, is now shifting closer to the falls as recent movements carry it further from its original resting spot.

US & Canada

Greater Manchester Police roots out officers who had “non-legitimate” contact with sex workers.

Manchester

This Is Wearside has coordinated a team of volunteers to lay out the flags ahead of Sunday’s clash.

Wear

Drug-driver struggles to understand basic questions after being pulled over by police near Wells.

England

A fruit factory worker claims the Guinness World Record for the fastest time to peel and slice a pineapple.

Will Johnston from Kenilworth says it was “scary” being told his sister had breast cancer.

Coventry & Warwickshire

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The 29-year-old upset the odds to beat Liverpool’s Peter McGrail in Monaco.

Stoke & Staffordshire

The “relatively unique surgery” replaces the snow leopard’s damaged eye lens with an artificial one.

Norfolk

The moment Linda McCann, 63, and her two helpers are arrested is caught on police body-worn cameras.

Wales

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been named game of the year at this year’s Game Awards.

Technology

Police officers urge drivers not to take the risk of drink or drug-driving over Christmas.

Berkshire

The store is believed to have one of the biggest map inventories in the UK.

Hereford & Worcester

Wolverhampton Wanderers are bottom of the Premier League with just two points.

Wolverhampton

“There’s been an explosion,” a woman tells a 999 operator following the blast on 11 December 2005.

Beds, Herts & Bucks

Cameron Saddique is handed a driving ban for more than three years following the crash in September.

Beds, Herts & Bucks

Roman Oleksiv,11, was injured in a Russian missile strike on a hospital that also killed his mother

Europe

Researchers say the footage, captured near the North-West Pacific coast, is the first recorded evidence of the two working together.