Rail crash victim may have been trying to save passengers

Lincolnshire: A woman driver killed after her car was hit by a train on a level-crossing may have died trying to save rail passengers from derailment, it emerged today.

The 30-year-old was left stranded on the icy crossing yesterday in South Drove, near Spalding, when her car clipped a Ford Transit van heading in the opposite direction.

• Cornwall: Hundreds of birdwatchers are flocking to a small coastal village after a rare sighting of a snowy owl.

The bird has arrived in Zennor, near St Ives, and now over 100 birdwatchers a day are estimated to be travelling from all over Britain to see it.