It happened in Burry Port, Carmarthenshire, earlier this month, with firefighters spending two hours making the scene safe.
Ivory Coast's hair industry is worth more than $300m a year, with wigs and weaves making up a significant share of that market."This rule is not good for us," Ange Sea, a 30-year-old hairdresser in Daloa, told the BBC.
"Many women love wigs. This will hurt our business and we make more money when working with wigs and weaves."At her salon, glue will be used to carefully attach wigs to make them look more natural and women will spend hours having weaves and extensions put in.It shows how deeply engrained wig culture is in West Africa, despite a natural hair movement that has been gaining momentum among black women around the world over the last decade.
Natural hair products have become much more readily available and natural hair influencers proliferate on social media worldwide with advice on how to manage and style natural hair, which can be time-consuming.It used to be considered unprofessional to wear one's hair naturally and it would have been extraordinary to see black female TV stars on screen or CEOs in the boardroom with natural hair.
According to Florence Edwige Nanga, a hair and scalp specialist in the main Ivorian city of Abidjan, this is often still the case in Ivory Coast.
"Turn on the TV [here], and you'll see almost every journalist wearing a wig," the trichologist told the BBC.Jayne Hunt, 55, from Melksham, Wiltshire, was riding her horse Moomin down Bollards Hill near Seend on 9 July 2023. Police said she was apparently startled by a motorcycle near a blind bend.
David Ridley, HM Senior Coroner for Wiltshire and Swindon, made the decision to refer the case to the CPS over inconsistencies in evidence.A two-day inquest at the coroner's court was due to begin on Wednesday.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s decision to scrap planned changes to the care system in England has been described as a "tragedy" by Sir Andrew Dilnot, the man who authored the proposals in 2011.Speaking to the BBC's Today programme, Sir Andrew said: "We've failed another generation of families."