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A mother had to wait nine hours for an ambulance - and was told to take an £80 taxi - after her four-year-old son snapped his wrist falling from an eight-foot slide. Jayne Wright had taken her two children to a playground near their home in Maldon, Essex, when her youngest, Sidney, fell from the slide. She called for an ambulance as he sat there screaming in pain after the accident at 8.30pm. Three hours later someone called back but then she had to wait until 12.34am to be told to book a taxi to the hospital which would cost her £80. An ambulance finally arrived at 5.20am and her child was taken to Broomfield hospital.

A traffic warden has let off a driver who begged to not be fined after struggling with the ticket machine at the Midsummer Meadow car park in Northampton. The driver - known as Lyd (centre inset) on Twitter - paid £1 for one ticket and 60p for the other, and left a note in her windscreen explaining what happened in a bid to not get slugged with a fine of up to £70 (left). The traffic warden wrote back to her plea and said: 'Good afternoon. Okay, this time I'll give you,' along with a smiley face and signed off the note with 'Have a good rest of the day,' and a smiley face (right).

Amanda McTaggart (pictured with four-year-old son Ethan), from Mullaghbawn, Northern Ireland has to take 36 tablets a day just to cope with the extreme discomfort and excruciating pain of living with both Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a rare genetic connective tissue disorder, and trigemenal neuralgia, which is described by the NHS as 'like having an electric shock in the jaw teeth or gums'.

For the past six months, Ruth Davidson has been living worlds away from Holyrood and Westminster in what she dubs ‘Finnland’, fully absorbed in meeting the demands not of petulant politicians but of her blue-eyed, round-cheeked little boy. Finn has arguably been putting her through her paces with far more rigour than her demanding political career ever did. In short, she is exhausted. Or as she describes it, ‘bone-crushingly sleep deprived’ – something of a novelty for a woman who has transformed the fortunes of the party north of the border, and even saved Theresa May’s Government in the snap 2017 Election by securing a crucial 13 Tory seats, the highest number since 1983.

During further demonstrations this weekend 12 members of Extinction Rebellion climbed trees in the London Borough of Hillingdon to save them from chainsaws. The trees, on Harvil Road in Colne Valley Regional Park, were set to be felled between 8am and 6pm today and tomorrow to make way for the high-speed rail line. But tree surgeons were unable to remove the trees due to strong winds and the presence of protesters. The climbers are due to descend after 6pm today and return tomorrow morning.Other protests across the capital saw protesters stage a 'die-in' in Waitrose's vegetable aisle in Kings Cross as well as outside the Tate Modern.The protesters, who included several young children, lay down on the floor inside the Waitrose branch in Kings Cross as the climate change demonstrations continued into the weekend. The video, which was shot on Friday afternoon, was supposed to mark the end of the 10-day Extinction Rebellion. However, demonstrators were spotted today outside the Tate Modern and along the proposed route of HS2.

Thatcher (pictured right in her kitchen in 1959) was interviewed in a Tory Party publication in 1954, aged 28, when she was a newly qualified barrister with eight-month-old twins, Carol and Mark (together left). She confided that housework and looking after children left her feeling ‘nothing more than a drudge’. She also said: ‘There are 24 hours a day; I am astonished at how little some people seem to do'

The government of Mozambique has urged people to seek higher ground as Cyclone Kenneth rips through Pemba city and the Macomia district (left). More heavy rain is expected to hit the country in the next few days which could cause mudslides and flooding. The extreme weather conditions would put the lives of 700,000 people at risk and five people have already been killed following Saturday’s storm. Shops and homes have already been destroyed (top right) in the village of Nacate, south Macomia, Cabo Delgado province. This is while others in the same area had to pick up the remaining pieces left of their homes (bottom right).

Police were called to their Sherman Oaks home on on April 12, The Blast reports. Sherk was found by her husband after he returned from shopping, reports say. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner ruled her death as suicide Thursday. Bichir made the announcement in an emotional Instagram post on Wednesday. The Oscar nominee, who did not specify a cause of death, said she died April 20. Stefanie and Demian began dating in 2010 and do not have any children. The actress was set to be in the new Grudge movie, released next year. The likes of Diane Kruger, Richard E.Grant and Arielle Kebbel led tributes.

This is the horrifying moment (right) Australian holidaymakers in Sri Lanka realise the hotel they have been staying at has been hit by a terrorist attack. Kim Wright had been staying at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel in Sri Lanka with her family during the Easter period. The family had planned on using the pool on Easter Sunday and Mrs Wright said there had been a good atmosphere at the hotel, due to a wedding ceremony which had been taking place. Footage taken by Mrs Wright shows the family walking through the hotel lobby (left), before walking outside, where they are then confronted with blood-soaked victims being hauled into emergency vehicles.