A woman has confessed to using her 75-year-old father’s disabled parking blue badge while out shopping in London.

The motorist was recorded as she returned to her black Mercedes on Windsor Road in Ealing at about 2.30pm on Monday, where she discovered a parking fine had been placed on the vehicle.

She later acknowledged she was “in the wrong” for displaying her elderly father’s blue badge, an offence that can be treated as criminal and may lead to the badge being seized.

In the footage, the woman is seen walking back to the car carrying a Kova Patisserie bag before local Ealing resident Mark Uddin challenged her, asking: “Why are you using a man’s blue badge?”

Appearing taken aback, she responded: “It was my dad’s, I was going to pick him up.”

After being confronted on the use, the woman said: ‘I won’t do it again, I’m sorry. I admit I’m in the wrong.’

It is illegal to display a blue badge if you are not travelling with the holder or picking them up from the place of parking, according to the Department for Transport.

The badge must not be given to friends or family to allow them to go shopping and offences can lead to a £1,000 fine.

Mr Uddin told the Daily Mail that he was ‘chatting to a resident when she parked up, put the blue badge in the window and disappeared’.   

‘I had a look at the blue badge after she left and I saw that it was for an elderly man,’ he said.   

The former Green Party candidate continued speaking to the resident when a parking warden ‘ticketed the car and walked off’.

After about 20 minutes, the woman returned to her car with the bag of shopping and the interaction began.

But the 62-year-old said the woman’s use of the badge was ‘ridiculous’ because it costs just £2.50 to park at Ealing Broadway Shopping Centre for two hours. 

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‘This is how gross it is,’ he continued. ‘For the sake of £2.50, she misused her dad’s blue badge and wound up with a parking ticket.’

‘The shops are just next door, a few minutes from Windsor Road and the tube is a five-minute walk away.’

Mr Uddin added: ‘And was the woman’s father even aware that his daughter was using his blue badge?’

The apparent misuse is the second time in just two days a blue badge has been used by someone other than the holder to park on Windsor Road. 

A man was caught using a 74-year-old woman’s blue badge to park his grey Toyota on the road on August 29.

When Mr Uddin questioned him on the badge’s use the man grabbed his belongings and walked off without saying a word. 

He previously told the Daily Mail that he has reported more than 1,500 people who have committed car-related misdemeanors to Ealing Council.

‘The whole system to stop misusers and faulters is totally broken. The public needs to be more concerned about this,’ he said.

Ealing councillor Dominic Moffitt said: ‘The blue badge scheme is a vital service for disabled people to access the support and facilities they need. 

‘Blue badge abuse is not a victimless crime and it will not be tolerated in Ealing borough. 

‘Where we receive allegations of blue badge misuse, like this, they are carefully considered and would form part of investigations into potential prosecution.’

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If your dog is constantly on the move, struggles to focus and seems impossible to calm, veterinarians say there may be more going on than ordinary high energy.

While dogs are not officially diagnosed with ADHD in the same way people are, experts believe some can display ADHD-like behaviours that closely resemble the condition in humans.

In veterinary terms, these traits are more often referred to as hyperactivity, hyperkinesis or impulsivity.

Dr Guy Sandelowsky, founder of OMNI Pet Limited, said this can involve dogs showing “behaviours that look remarkably similar to some of the features associated with ADHD in people”.

Researchers say dogs with ADHD-like conditions may be unusually hyperactive, act impulsively and have difficulty maintaining attention for long periods.

According to a study conducted in 2024, these issues can manifest in compulsive behaviour, aggression, inappropriate elimination, fearfulness and eating non-food objects.

On social media, frustrated owners of energetic pups have taken to blaming their pets’ disposition on ADHD.

However, Dr Sandelowsky warns: ‘A lot of completely normal dog behaviour can also be mistaken for a disorder.’

Dogs can’t literally have the condition we call attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), since this diagnosis is reserved for humans.

However, research has shown that dogs can suffer from an extremely similar condition with many of the same symptoms.

One 2024 study showed that this ADHD-like behaviour is linked to disruptions to the brain’s dopamine and serotonin systems, just as is the case in humans.

Dogs with ADHD-like symptoms even respond to the same medications that are typically used to treat the condition in humans.

These conditions are so similar, in fact, that some researchers suggest that dogs could be used as an animal model for studying ADHD in humans.

The three main symptoms are hyperactivity, impulsivity, and inattention.

However, perhaps unsurprisingly, the symptoms of this ADHD-like condition are quite different to those seen in humans.

Hyperactive dogs often leave a place they have been commanded to stay, fidget all the time, excessively play and run, and are often jumpy and hard to hold back on walks.

Likewise, dogs with this condition have a difficult time learning tricks since they are easily distracted, and owners struggle to keep their attention.

In addition to these somewhat human-like symptoms, dogs with ADHD-style symptoms are also more likely to be fearful, aggressive, and engage in compulsive behaviour.

Research suggests that these symptoms are linked to a combination of genetics and environment.

Some breeds appear to be far more predisposed to developing ADHD-like conditions, with cairn terriers, jack russells, German shepherds, Staffordshire bull terriers, smooth collies, and border collies topping the list.

The breeds with the lowest ADHD scores, meanwhile, were the Chinese crested, rough collie and chihuahua.

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Studies also suggest that these symptoms are more common in dogs that are young, male, and spend more time home alone.

On social media, dozens of owners have picked up similar traits in their own dogs, claiming that they must suffer from ‘ADHD’.

On TikTok, one dog owner complained that their pet had been ‘running laps’, barking at the air and chewing their own tail, asking: ‘Do dogs get ADHD? Because mine is giving textbook symptoms.’

While another shared a video of their dog ignoring their calls, saying: ‘I swear my dog has ADHD.’

However, Dr Sandelowsky warns against ‘trying to diagnose your dog from a TikTok checklist’.

He adds: ‘Owners shouldn’t assume that a very energetic or easily distracted dog has a medical condition.

‘Boredom, insufficient exercise, anxiety, frustration and lack of appropriate mental stimulation can all result in behaviours that look superficially similar.’

Before jumping to the conclusion that your dog has a medical condition, it’s important to check that all of its needs are being properly met.

That includes adequate sleep, exercise, enrichment, training, as well as ensuring a healthy, calm environment to manage their emotional state.

But if your dog still appears hyperactive and inattentive after all that, it still isn’t necessarily a sign that there’s something medically wrong with them.

Dr Sandelowsky says: ‘Puppies and adolescent dogs naturally tend to be more energetic, impulsive and distractible.

‘That doesn’t mean certain breeds “have ADHD”. It means we have to judge behaviour in the context of what is normal for that individual dog, its age and its breed.’

However, if the behaviour is persistent, extreme, or is affecting your dog’s welfare, the best thing to do is seek advice from a vet.

Dr Sandelowsky says: ‘One of the most useful things owners can do beforehand is take videos and keep a short behaviour diary.

‘Record when the behaviour happens, what happened immediately beforehand, how much exercise and sleep the dog has had, and how long it takes them to settle.’

A volcanic eruption in Indonesia has thrown air travel into chaos, leaving around 170,000 passengers stuck after widespread flight cancellations.

Authorities halted operations at eight airports across the country on Sunday as thick volcanic ash from Mount Anak Krakatau drifted into flight paths.

Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Jakarta’s main aviation hub, said in an Instagram update that all aircraft would remain grounded until at least 8.59am local time on Monday, leaving large numbers of travellers waiting inside the terminal.

The shutdown at Soekarno-Hatta, which has already been extended several times, has disrupted 964 flights at that airport alone, according to Indonesia’s transportation ministry.

Across all eight affected airports, more than 1,500 flights have been impacted, with approximately 170,000 passengers caught up in the disruption, the ministry said.

Singapore Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia and Lion Air Group said they had cancelled flights to and from Jakarta for the rest of Sunday.

Anak Krakatau, which means child of Krakatau, is a volcanic island that emerged from the caldera formed by the gigantic 1883 explosion that destroyed the original Krakatau and killed more than 36,000 people in a series of tsunamis. 

Situated roughly halfway between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia’s vast island chain, it has been erupting since late on Friday, with volcanic ash detected at the airport early on Sunday, the transport ministry said. 

Ash reached as high as 20,000 feet on the Java side of the volcano and 50,000 feet  on the Sumatra side and some parts of Banten province in Java, meteorological agency BMKG posted on its website.

Ersy Laksita Rini, 55, was upset when she arrived at Soekarno-Hatta International and learned that her 8am flight to Surabaya had been cancelled. She said the airline had not informed her ahead of time.

‘If the eruption happened last night and there were predictions of flight cancellations, we should have been notified from the start,’ she said. 

‘That way, passengers wouldn’t have needed to come here so early and could have looked for alternatives instead.’ 

French national Eloan Tasset, 21, got a text from Batik Air that his flight to his holiday destination of Manado in North Sulawesi had been delayed, but he said it was unclear how long the delay would be.

‘If they tell me my flight is cancelled, I think I’m going to try to find a hotel in Jakarta,’ he said.

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The airport operator said it was providing food and light refreshments for affected passengers and buses to hotels, in coordination with the airlines.

The disaster mitigation agency BNPB said it would conduct a weather modification operation, which could include cloud-seeding, on Sunday to promote rain.

‘If it rains heavily enough, the volcanic ash that has been disrupting our daily lives since yesterday and continuing today will be washed away quickly,’ BNPB chief Suharyanto told a press conference.

The transport ministry named three other airports across Java – Kertajati, Ahmad Yani and Juanda – as alternatives, ‘should airlines or operators be able to divert their flights’, minister Dudy Purwagandhi said.

BNPB spokesperson Berton Panjaitan said the agency is urging the public to remain calm while ‘increasing vigilance’. 

He added: ‘In the event of ashfall, people are advised to wear masks and eye protection, reduce outdoor activities, cover water sources and exercise caution when driving, as volcanic ash can reduce visibility.’

Ferries in the Sunda Strait were operating normally, the transport ministry said, urging vessels to stay at least 3 km (2 miles) away from Anak Krakatau’s crater and remain vigilant for volcanic hazards, including volcanic ash and other ejected materials.

Several schools cancelled activities on Saturday after students and residents suffered eye irritations from the ash, while fishermen cancelled fishing trips, local media outlet Kompas reported.

Police distributed masks to motorists in Cianjur, West Java, some 200 km (130 miles) from Anak Krakatau, the state news agency Antara reported, while the disaster management agency reported volcanic ash in the city, urging residents to stay indoors.

Governors of Lampung and Jakarta have ordered remote learning starting Monday to prevent health risks for students caused by volcanic ash, state news agency Antara said.

Some 850 km (530 miles) away from Anak Krakatau, Mount Semeru in East Java also erupted on Sunday, sending an ash column 1 km (3,300 feet) above the summit, said volcano monitoring agency PVMBG. 

It advised residents to stay at least 5 km (3 miles) away from the crater and warned of the risk of hot ash clouds and lava flows up to 17 km (10 miles) from the summit.

Indonesia sits on the Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’, where earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are frequent. Anak Krakatau has been on alert level 3, the second-highest, since July 2. 

Semeru was also on level 3, as were three other volcanoes: Merapi, Lewotobi Laki-laki and Sinabung.

The disaster mitigation agency said there was no imminent risk of tsunami from the volcano. A tsunami in 2018 caused by Anak Krakatau eruptions killed more than 400 on Java and Sumatra.

Mariska Hargitay delivered a standout red carpet moment on Saturday night, stepping out in a striking gown as she celebrated two wins at the 2026 Creative Arts Emmys.

The 62-year-old actress and filmmaker, who directed the documentary My Mom Jayne about her late mother, Hollywood icon Jayne Mansfield, joined a star-studded crowd at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles for the annual awards event.

Hargitay commanded attention in a strapless red dress designed with a structured, figure-hugging bodice and a flowing skirt that added movement and drama to the look.

She completed the monochromatic ensemble with closed-toe red heels, while bold, sparkling necklaces brought an extra dose of glamour to her awards-night styling.

Her brunette hair was parted down the center and styled in soft waves, falling just to her shoulders for a polished finish.

A warm blush was added to her cheekbones for a radiant glow while a pink satin tint was worn on her lips for a finishing touch. 

Later in the evening on night one of the Creative Arts Emmys, Hargitay posed on the red carpet while proudly holding two awards in her hands. 

She flashed a cheerful smile for the cameras as she lifted the trophies into the air. 

The actress received the award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special for My Mom Jayne, which was released on HBO Max last year in June. 

Hargitay additionally won for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program. 

Daily Mail has reached out to reps for Hargitay for comment, but has yet to hear back.  

The star previously won an Emmy for Best Actress back in 2006 based on her performance in Law & Order: SVU. 

While accepting the award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special, she gave a special shout out to Gloria Steinem for encouraging her to pursue bringing the film to life. 

Activist and journalist Steinem passed away at the age of 92 earlier this week on September 2. 

‘My hero and friend Gloria Steinem recently said, “Please tell your own story,”‘ Hargitay said during her speech, per Deadline. 

‘The most important thing we can do for each other is to know each other through stories. I got to know my mother through telling the story. It’s a gift that’s indescribable.’ 

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And while taking to the stage again after winning for directing, the actress gushed that she felt ‘overwhelmed.’

‘I just wanted to share with you that it took me a while when I decided to make this film during the pandemic.’

She continued that, ‘It took me a while to realize that this was my story to tell. I could direct it.’

While backstage amid the festivities, Hargitay reflected on how the recent Emmy wins had a ‘meaningful’ impact on her after helming the documentary about Mansfield. 

‘It feels extraordinarily new and it’s deeply meaningful for me to have gone into a completely different arena, and to be recognized like this is really beyond my wildest dreams,’ she said, per The Hollywood Reporter. 

My Mom Jayne ‘explores the life and legacy of Mariska Hargitay’s mother, Hollywood icon Jayne Mansfield, who died tragically in a car accident at age 34 when Mariska was only three years old,’ per an IMDB synopsis. 

The documentary has a 100% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes as well as a 95% audience score. 

Mansfield welcomed the Law & Order star in January 1964 while she was married to Mickey Hargitay. 

However, Hargitay later discovered in her 20s that her biological father was singer and comedian Nelson Sardelli. 

During an interview with Vanity Fair, the star recalled meeting Sardelli for the first time when she was age 30 as he performed in Atlantic City at the time. 

She had introduced herself as his daughter, to which he replied with, ‘I’ve been waiting 30 years for this moment.’ 

Hargitay told the outlet that she went ‘full Olivia Benson,’ referring to her character on Law & Order: SVU. 

‘I was like, “I don’t want anything. I don’t need anything from you… I have a dad.” There was something about loyalty. I wanted to be loyal to Mickey,’ she said. 

The actress had also confronted Mickey, the man who raised her, but he insisted that he was her father and the pair did not discuss the topic again.

Hargitay also won Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures at the Producers Guild of America Awards in February.  

On September 14, the actress will also take on hosting duties for the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards. 

‘Do I want to quit now? No,’ she told Variety last month. ‘Why? I made a movie while shooting; I did a play for six weeks on hiatus. I’m hosting the Emmys.’ 

Hargitay further shared how she plans to keep busy by taking more projects under her belt.

‘Next summer, if I don’t make another movie, I’ll probably do another play. And I love it!’