This year’s Bristol Balloon Fiesta will go ahead next month only as a “flypast” in the sky as the organisers of the annual event have been forced to cancel the usual on-the-ground activities at Ashton Court to comply with social distancing rules. There will also be a virtual nightglow when tethered balloons light their burners…
A Ferry capsized after colliding with another vessel killing 30, including several children and several more missing near the capital Dhaka in Bangladesh. Rescue officials said the ship, the Morning Bird, overturned after a collision with another vessel in the Buriganga river, close to the country’s largest river port, Sadarghat. The ferry came from a…
Learn from the monkey how to remain calm in adversity and to wait for your opponent to make a mistake.
Armed men with automatic rifles in Toyota Corolla car threw a grenade and then began firing at a security post outside the stock exchange and stormed the financial hub in Karachi, killing at least two and injuring others before police guards fought back shooting all four gunmen them dead. Militants from the Baloch…
Coronavirus death toll surpasses half a million and over 10 million infected according to Johns Hopkins University in the US. The US has reported a total of 2.5 million cases and 125, 000 deaths with Covid-19 so far more than any other country. The virus which emerged in China, late last year and spread across…
A Saturn Herald Short Story by Penny Nair Price June 2020 “The Bottom Pincher.” How a girl saved a bottom pincher’s marriage. Annie smiled at her boss who was busy behind his desk on her first day in the sumptuous office she was now working in on the twentieth floor of a publishing house in…
Footage on social media showed a line of police retreating from crowds of people running at them with makeshift weapons on Overton Road near Angell Town Estate in Brixton. Police said they were called by concerned residents to the illegal street party but were met by a hostile crowd. Twenty-two officers have been injured and…
The Orphans Elephants arrive at Marble Arch are 21 life-size bronze elephant sculptures representing real elephants including the orphaned calf which highlights their sad backstory, under the care of Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. One mother elephant sits in the middle of the herd left behind by poachers, victims to habitat loss, climate change and other sources…
A short story about horses ponies and riding with a comical slant owing to the names of the steeds – A FLASH FICTION STORY FOR THE SATURN HERALD What’s in a name? Well two friends – Julie and Julie – yes their parents had both, before either of the families had met, chosen Julie for…
Councils and charities in England have called for help to ensure people did not have to return to the streets when hotels reopen on 4 July, will be given an extra £105m to support rough sleepers put up during lockdown. Thousands of rough sleepers were housed in hotels and B&Bs as coronavirus hit. The government…