A 'sadistic' dog abuser has been jailed after beating a pug to death with a hockey stick. Dudley Stein, 33, who was previously jailed for throwing the same dog out of a window, was locked up for ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Raise a cheer for Benjamin Britten. Faced with the challenge of performing opera in an austerity-stricken ...

North America’s last wooden hockey stick factory is facing uncertainty as shifting U.S. tariffs and global competition squeeze production. The operation has roots going back more than a century, even ...

BRANTFORD, Ontario (AP) — Wearing protective gloves and earplugs, a worker feeds lengths of wood into a machine that makes an ear-splitting whine as it automatically cuts a groove into the end of each ...

A police officer who visited the family of the Southport killer after he had attacked a pupil at school with a hockey stick noted that he believed the parents were "still in denial over how serious ...

BRANTFORD, Ontario (AP) — Wearing protective gloves and earplugs, a worker feeds lengths of wood into a machine that makes an ear-splitting whine as it automatically cuts a groove into the end of each ...

Wearing protective gloves and earplugs, a worker feeds lengths of wood into a machine that makes an earsplitting whine as it automatically cuts a groove into the end of each piece. Nearby, stacks of ...

Wooden hockey sticks are stacked as they move along the assembly line at the Roustan Hockey factory, which is the last major manufacturer of hockey sticks in Canada on Aug. 27, 2025 in Brantford, ...