A Plymouth school wants to install a net to stop rugby balls flying into neighbouring allotments. Currently balls frequently clear the height of a fence of the playing fields at Stoke Damerel ...

But Aire Valley House borders Crossflatts Cricket Club in Bingley, West Yorkshire, and there were fears residents' homes and cars could be hit by flying cricket balls. Planners ordered that a ...

Research shows that while overall toy sales are in decline in the US, sales driven by nostalgic adults are on the rise. Frédérique Tutt, global toys industry analyst at the research group ...

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An RAF base will conduct low flying night time operations until the start of December, it has confirmed. RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire said on Tuesday (November 12) that evening training ...

Sport England said too little consideration over the risk of injury from flying cricket balls had gone into the plans A row over the speed of balls being hit by cricket batsmen could delay a major ...

Jaiswal looked in good touch middling most of the balls and one of his hits sent the ball sailing and was found on the street adjacent to the practice session spot. The ball was found on the ...

Toy sales have fallen for a third year in a row as family budgets are squeezed - but adults are buying childhood favourites to escape their troubles, research suggests. A falling birth rate, the ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration prohibited U.S. airlines from flying to Haiti for 30 days after gangs shot three planes and the United Nations also Tuesday ...

After years as an also-ran, the pastel-colored ponies were enshrined in the National Toy Hall of Fame on Tuesday, along with Transformers action figures and the Phase 10 card game. The honorees ...