内容摘要：The events of the night of 21 December 1988 have resonated across the decades.

The events of the night of 21 December 1988 have resonated across the decades.

Erin Patterson has pleaded not guilty to four charges - three of murder and one of attempted murder - over the beef wellington lunch at her regional Victorian house in July 2023.Prosecutors argue she intentionally sought out death cap mushrooms and cooked them for her relatives, before lying to police and disposing of evidence.

However the defence case is that Patterson had unintentionally served poison to family members she loved, and then "panicked".Three people died in hospital in the days after the meal, including Ms Patterson's former in-laws, Don Patterson, 70, and Gail Patterson, 70, as well as Gail's sister, Heather Wilkinson, 66.A single lunch guest survived - local pastor Ian Wilkinson - after weeks of treatment in hospital.

Over six weeks, the jury in the Victorian Supreme Court has heard from more than 50 witnesses called by the prosecution, including Ms Patterson's estranged husband, Simon, and the surviving lunch guest, Ian.It is now the defence's turn to call witnesses, and first up was Ms Patterson herself.

The 50-year-old told the court that by 2023 she had felt for some months that her relationship with the wider Patterson family - Don and Gail in particular - had perhaps developed a bit more distance or space.

"We saw each other less," she says.Animals are responding in various ways: moving to cooler areas or higher ground, changing the timing of key life events such as breeding and migration, or switching their body size.

The research is published in the journal,Temperatures in the seas around the UK and Ireland have soared in the past week with some areas now 4C warmer than normal, with potential implications for marine life and people going swimming.

The heatwave is most intense off the west coast of Ireland as well as pockets off the coasts of Cornwall and Devon, according to scientists at the National Oceanography Centre and the Met Office.Sea temperatures in April and the first half of May were the highest recorded during those months since monitoring began 45 years ago.