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Police said the Viper E-Scooter being ridden by the pair crashed into a parked white Ford Focus in Plymouth. Emergency services were called to North West Road ...

Police said the Viper E-Scooter being ridden by the pair crashed into a parked white Ford Focus in Plymouth. Two men who crashed an e-scooter into a parked car are in hospital with life-changing injuries. Men suffer life-changing injuries in e-scooter crash

When Falkirk FC played Alloa Athletic, brothers Nicky and Jay Hogarth went head to head in goals.

"But we didn't expect it to happen so soon. Barry, then 20, scored in one fixture at East End Park while Derek made his last appearance at Ibrox in the same season. "Going into it we just had to treat it as any other game. John has also subsequently played with his other older brother Paul for Scotland. "Obviously it didn't turn out the best for us. McGinn came up against elder brother Stephen when John was playing for Hibernian in the Scottish Championship in 2017 against his first club, St Mirren.

Stephen James from Haverhill moved to the area in 2016 and has never gotten an NHS dentist. "All my front teeth are crumbling, my gums are bleeding. I need ...

I need about five or six fillings," he said. She added the need for the charity's dental services had "absolutely skyrocketed" since the start of the pandemic. The 52-year-old said there was "no way" he could afford to pay for dental treatment.

Hayley Fern began capturing the churches in watercolour during the school holidays last year.

"Even in a busy town or village it can be the most peaceful part," she said. "It was part of embracing the local area, raising awareness of the beautiful churches, and it just became a lovely way of talking to people and meeting people." An art teacher has said she aims to paint all 310 of the churches in her local diocese to raise awareness of their beauty.

Near the Bosnia-Herzegovina border, a small-town hotel is focused on regenerating a war-scarred village and bringing a community together.

[Tara Community Association](https://www.facebook.com/Udruga-gra%C4%91ana-TARA-Li%C4%8Dko-Petrovo-Selo-150845278352572/), bringing together the women of the village to share and pass on their weaving and knitting skills. Through all this effort, the hotel team hopes to forge a deeper connection not only with visitors but with the area's history and future. Local goods can also be found in Lyra's restaurant: much of its food is sourced from family farms in the area, and local cooks prepare homestyle recipes for guests. While Plitvice Lakes is the country's oldest and largest national park (opened in 1949), it was also the site of one of the Henka explained that Hotel Lyra was built on the site of the former primary school – and she remembers when it had hundreds of pupils attending. When she returned home to the village, Henka became worried that local Serbian culture and traditions were dying out, so in 2004 she founded the Much of the village burnt down during WW2 and though it was rebuilt in the 1970s, it is still recovering from conflict in the 1990s. "I was shocked by the state of the village, it quickly became clear that our plans for a hotel would need to include regeneration of the village," she said. She started interning at the hotel when she was 16 and now holds a job as receptionist. "I saw the need for a good quality hotel in the area and persuaded Happy Tours owner, Sašo Krumpak, that we should build one." So far, the hotel has worked to refurbish 10 buildings in town, and people have returned to live in some of them. However, the 58-room, newly built property aims to not only offer guests an improved place to sleep – with its modern Scandi design and eco-conscious room amenities – but to also improve the surrounding community, which has remained scarred from the [Balkans war of the '90s](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17632399) and breakup of the former Yugoslavian state.