The Birk family are the new bosses of The Osprey (pictured, the felled woodland outside) in East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, after they bought out the previous eatery on the site last month.

An Australian court suspended on Thursday work to expand a highway after officials cut down an ancient tree that Aboriginal people said was a sacred "directions tree".

An Aussie caught performing an illegal act in a protected state forest has been held up as an example by authorities.