Inside Japan’s abandoned Wild West theme park left to rot for 20 years

Western Village was once a hugely popular attraction (Picture: Luke Bradburn / SWNS)

Summer is here, and for many of us the season wouldn’t be complete without a trip to a theme park, taking in the rides, rollercoasters and everything else your favourite has to offer.

But for every Alton Towers and Legoland that’s preparing to welcome its seasonal influx of visitors, there are many others which…

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I exhumed my dad’s grave and found the buried body belonged to a stranger

Mark Wells has spent decades trying to uncover what exactly happened to his missing father (Picture: SWNS)

For years, Mark Wells believed that he’d been tasked with trying to solve the mystery of how his father died. Instead, he ended up uncovering a different mystery altogether.

The Californian paid for DNA testing on remains that had been buried as his father, Dale Wayne Wells, hoping modern…

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Man who burnt penis when coffee slid off tray says ‘life will never be the same’

Nicholas Gibbs was flying back to Heathrow from Las Vegas with his partner, Claire, in December 2025, when the lidless drink slid into his lap from a tray table (Picture: Hudgell Solicitors)

A holidaymaker says his manhood ‘will never be the same’ after it was badly burned when a cup of hot coffee slid off the tray table and into his lap on a Virgin Atlantic flight.

Nicholas Gibbs, 41, from…

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Flesh-eating parasite that can infest humans and animals found in the US

Larvae of the screwworm fly, collected from infected cows. The parasite has been found in the US for the first time since the 1960s (Picture: Reuters)

The US has detected a parasite that can eat cattle and wild animals alive for the first time in six decades.

New World screwworm has been found in a calf in Texas after travelling through Central America and Mexico.

Parasitic flies lay eggs in…

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Rollercoaster riders end up stranded 100ft above near-verticle drop after glitch

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Thrill seekers at a Texas theme park got more than they bargained for when a rollercoaster glitch left them stranded 100ft in the air above a near-vertical drop.

Eight students were rescued by fire crews after nearly four hours trapped…

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