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Pets on flights can be classified as baggage, the European court of justice has ruled, meaning airlines are not required to pay higher compensation if the animal is lost. The ECJ, Europe’s highest court, was asked to intervene after a dog was lost during a journey from Buenos Aires to Barcelona, triggering a claim for losses from the owner. The court heard that the passenger and her mother…

Pharmacist’s murder at hands of husband who strangled her ‘should be classed as honour killing’

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A pharmacist suffered years of abuse before her husband strangled her to death with a plastic bag to start a new life with his male lover, a review into her death has found.

Jessica Patel, 34, was strangled by her husband Mitesh, 37, at their home in May 2018 in a premeditated attack so he could start a new life with his boyfriend in Australia.

Mitesh Patel, who was also a pharmacist,…

Pigs ‘ate each other alive’ or at UK farm classed as high quality

Pigs were found eating each other alive or with gaping wounds in scenes of “extreme neglect and abuse” at a farm certified as “high quality”, campaigners have claimed.

Animal-rights activists filmed cannibalism, bodies left on the floor, and pigs covered in dirt in crowded pens at the farm in Northern Ireland.

One activist said: “This farm has some of the worst neglect and abuse I have ever…