Artist who posed for Marc Quinn’s Trafalgar Square statue talks of son’s depression The artist Alison Lapper has said her late son was taunted by other children at school because of her disability.Parys Lapper, 19, was found in a hotel in Worthing, West Sussex, last month after he died from...

Swansea University scientists say the proliferation of weirs, dams and culverts is now creating a threat to wildlifeNear the mouth of the River Afan in Port Talbot, south Wales, a pair of seagulls were to be seen last week pecking in a leisurely way at a dead salmon lying on...