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Juno the Norfolk search and rescue dog has been found after six days missing over Christmas

 

A search and rescue dog who was missing for six days over Christmas has been safely returned to her owner.

 

Juno, who helps find missing people for Norfolk Lowland Search and Rescue, became the subject of a large-scale search herself after getting lost on a family walk on 21 December.

 

More than 85 people from Norfolk, Sufffolk, Cambridgeshire, Buckinghamshire, and Kent search and rescue teams were involved in finding the German shorthaired pointer

 

Boats, thermal cameras, and drones had all been employed in the search. She had wandered into long grass in woodland around five miles outside of Great Yarmouth last Tuesday.

 

After extensive searching across the area, Juno was finally spotted by a drone operator on Monday morning, close to where she went missing on the banks of the River Waveney, near Gorleston-on-Sea.

 

Her owner Ian Danks was incredibly relieved that she was found alive and well after he had been out looking for her every day.

 

He told BBC News: "I've been incredibly emotional.

 

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Former ‘Wicked’ star saves the show with emergency performance.

 

https://www.today.com/popculture/popculture/carla-stickler-flies-chicago-star-wicked-broadway-covid-19-pandemic-rcna11201

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She last played the part in 2015 and has since left acting to become a software engineer, but got on a plane from Chicago to perform on Broadway at no notice.

Carla Stickler hadn't played Elphaba on Broadway since 2015, but she flew in from Chicago when the Broadway hit needed an extra hand.

 

A former actor returned to Broadway to play Elphaba in “Wicked” after the show experienced COVID-related cast shortages earlier this week.

 

Carla Stickler was previously the understudy for Elphaba in the national tour and Broadway companies of “Wicked,” according to her website.

 

Stickler stepped away in 2015 to begin a new career as a software engineer, but when she was called back to the Broadway stage about seven years later, she didn’t miss a beat.

 

“Last night I got the chance to perform Elphaba on Broadway after not having done it since I left the company full time in 2015. To say it was an incredible moment would be an understatement,” Stickler wrote on Instagram, sharing a video of her curtain call.

 

“I am so overjoyed to have performed with this amazing cast and crew," Stickler continued. "They helped carry me thru the show last night, and without their energy, cheering me on, I wouldn’t have been able to do it.”

 

Stickler also opened up about her decision to step away from her acting career.

 

“When I left the company full time, I was battling with a lot of injuries and health issues. Everytime I’ve been able to step away and then pop back into this show having had space to breathe and process, ive been able to fully grasp the beauty and magic of getting to be a part of something so magical,” she wrote on Instagram.

 

“Having the opportunity to perform her again after having left the biz is giving me the closure I have been missing,” she continued. “If I never performed again, I could rest easy knowing that something out of this world happened last night.”

 

Lindsay Pearce, who currently stars as Elphaba on Broadway, praised her stand-in’s performance, commenting “yes yes yes” on Stickler’s Instagram post.

 

Broadway actor Alexandra Silber also celebrated Stickler in a lengthy Twitter thread.

 

“Are you in need of some inspiration? Behold. This is my friend @sticklercarla,” she tweeted. “Last week (in the midst of everything) Carla flew to NYC from her new home in Chicago, to answer a call from @WICKED_Musical on Broadway.

 

“Carla has recently pivoted away from showbiz and taken on a new career in coding. She has not played this role in *SEVEN. YEARS.* And kapow: with a performing itch to scratch and an industry in need, Carla DEFIED GRAVITY last night," she wrote. "Some of us might not totally appreciate what a role like this entails—let alone not having done, rehearsed it, or even THOUGHT about it for SEVEN years. But Carla? Did it. On one of the biggest stages ON EARTH."

 

Silber continued, “She will return to her life in Chicago with her amazing husband, perfect dog and kick ass coder job— but if she never performs in public again? She knows without a shadow of a doubt that THIS BOW was her last bow.”

 

Today, Stickler works as a software engineer as well as a vocal coach and teacher. She said her unique career path is proof that people don’t have to limit themselves to one dream.

 

As she wrote on Twitter, “At the end of all of this, I hope some little girl who loves coding/math/science but also loves music/theatre/art saw this story and thought to herself: I can do both, I can be so many things, the possibilities are endless!”

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From The Guardian: Stranded dog saved from rising tide after rescuers attach sausage to drone

As the tide rose, it began to look perilous for Millie the jack russell terrier, who had defied the efforts of police, firefighters and coastguards to pluck her from treacherous mudflats.

 

So the rescuers had to think imaginatively, and came up with the idea of attaching a sausage to a drone and hoping the scent of the treat would tempt Millie to safety. It worked gloriously and Millie has been reunited with her grateful owner after following the dangling sausage to higher, safer ground.

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Link: Smithsonian to give back its entire collection of Benin bronzes - The Washington Post

 

...The Smithsonian will give up ownership of the works, which were mostly donated and came into the collection over many years. The agreement calls for at least some pieces to return to Washington on long-term loan in an exhibition the Nigerians will curate, Tijani said.

 

“This exhibition will be from the perspective of Nigeria and how we want them to be displayed,” he said, adding that the Smithsonian has pledged to fund education programs for young Nigerians. “What is more important than being in control of how your heritage, your artifacts, are displayed?”...

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Link: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on way home to UK - BBC News

 

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman detained in Iran nearly six years ago, is on her way to the UK, her MP has said.

 

Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was at the airport in Tehran, Tulip Siddiq told BBC News.

 

She has been in a holding room with fellow British-Iranian detainee Anoosheh Ashoori, she said.

 

Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested in 2016 - accused of plotting to overthrow Iran's government, which she denied.

 

Mr Ashoori was arrested in 2017 and accused of spying, a claim he denied.

 

A spokesperson for Iran's judiciary said both dual nationals had been released.

 

Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been under house arrest and was given her UK passport back this week.

 

Her husband Richard Ratcliffe, who lives with their six-year-old daughter Gabriella in Hampstead, London, has not yet commented. He had campaigned for her release, including by going on hunger strike in October last year.

 

Ms Siddiq, Labour's MP for Hampstead and Kilburn, told BBC News that she had spoken to Mr Ratcliffe.

 

Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was at the airport with her passport, she said, but remained "under the control of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard".

 

She said a deal to secure her freedom had not "been completed yet".

 

"I won't rest until she is on British soil, in West Hampstead, in her house," she added.

 

Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's sister-in-law Rebecca Ratcliffe told BBC News it was an "emotional day".

 

"It feels like we're on the home run now but until she leaves that airport we can't believe it," she said, adding that she had also spoken to Mr Ratcliffe.

 

She said Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been picked up and taken to the airport with her parents, who were not allowed in a holding room with her because she was "still under Iranian control in the airport".

 

"She's still not free. But it definitely feels like she's about to be," she said.

 

Earlier Ms Siddiq said Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been "dreaming" about the day she could return to the UK.

 

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss told BBC Breakfast that securing her freedom, and the freedom of other dual national detainees - like Mr Ashoori and Morad Tahbaz - was "an absolute priority".

 

A £400m debt relating to a cancelled order for 1,500 Chieftain tanks dating back to the 1970s had been linked to the continued detention of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe and other UK-Iranian dual nationals held in the country - although the government has previously said the two issues should not be linked.

 

Ms Truss told the BBC on Wednesday the debt was "legitimate" and that the government was "looking for ways to pay" it.

 

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was "an incredible moment" for Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her family after an "unimaginable ordeal".

 

He added that there would be questions to be answered about "what happened along the way", but at present his thoughts were with the family.

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Link: Quacking effort as hero saves ducklings from drain | Metro News

 

What a fowl job… hero Edan March climbs into a water-filled sewer to save eight ducklings that had fallen in a drain.

 

Edan had been woken by their mother quacking in distress near his home and realised her young were missing.

 

After putting his ear to several manholes along the street he heard tiny quacking noises, so grabbed a wrench from his garage, removed the drain cover and jumped inside. He then lifted seven of the chicks, one-by-one, to partner Georgia Littlejohn, 27, who reunited them with their mother.

 

‘I just acted on instinct really,’ the salesman, 26, said after the rescue at 6am on Monday. ‘I’m 6ft 1in tall and was fully submerged when I went down the drain. I must have looked a sight.’

 

Edan, of Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire, said the mallard had been nesting in his front garden for several weeks before the mishap. ‘We assume she was leading them to a pond when the babies fell down the drain,’ he added.

 

Nursery manager Ms Littlejohn, mum to the couple’s one-year-old daughter Piper, added: ‘Mummy duck was thrilled to have her ducklings back.

 

‘Piper and I led the ducklings to the pond and stood on each drain grid to ensure no more fell in.

 

‘Ed found another duckling but as he went to grab it, it ran off down the pipe.

 

‘We waited and waited but the chirp was inaudible. We went to the pond and to our surprise there were eight ducklings. We think the last one had made its way into the pond through the underground pipes.

 

‘We’re so pleased our little duck family is safe and sound.’

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