Pc Mark Johnson, 39, left the German Shepherds in temperatures of 29.3C (84.7F) in June last year when parked at Nottinghamshire Police headquarters.

He told Nottingham magistrates he had been suffering from depression and obsessive compulsive disorder when he forgot to check them for seven hours.

He was given a six-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £2,500.....

Some 740 passengers are stuck on a Eurostar train in Kent after it experienced "technical problems".

Eurostar said the Paris to London train was stuck south of Ashford but a rescue train would take passengers to London.

The train was due to leave Gare du Nord at 2043 GMT and arrive in St Pancras at 2159 GMT but was delayed after an unattended bag caused a security alert.

Passenger Alistair Neale said lights in the carriages had failed but the rescue train had arrived at the scene.

Eurostar would not confirm whether the lights had failed or reports that the cab had become detached from the train....

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