Prince Edward stepped out for a lively day at Bristol Zoo Project on Tuesday, in his role as Patron with a hands-on visit ahead of the busy Easter period.

The Duke was given a behind-the-scenes look at preparations to welcome visitors back to see the zoo’s gorilla troop, which is being gradually reintroduced to the public. 

Edward even helped prepare food for the animals, getting a taste of the daily routine involved in their care.

During his visit, the Duke also addressed the importance of protecting wildlife.

He pointed out that many endangered species face growing threats due to the loss of their natural habitats rather than direct danger to the animals themselves. 

And also spoke about the vital link between species and their environments, stressing how closely connected ecosystems are.

“I’m delighted that we’ve created this brilliant new facility for the gorillas and primates here, which hopefully will give them a very different experience and you’ll see them mixing with others,” he said.

The upgraded space allows the animals greater freedom to interact and move, while giving visitors a closer insight into their behaviour.

Nancy Guthrie has been missing for 45 days, and with the latest update in the case being of little use to authorities, one expert tells CBS News the extended timeline means it “becomes much harder to keep the investigation going.” 

Law enforcement sources told CBS News that additional images were obtained in the last couple of weeks from surveillance cameras installed at Guthrie’s Tucson home, where she is believed to have been abducted from in the middle of the night on Feb. 1.

The images, taken from a camera fastened to a fence and focused on the back of the house and another that showed the driveway and front of the garage door, captured family members, landscapers and pool workers stretching back weeks prior to the kidnapping. Nothing was deemed suspicious, and no images reviewed showed the suspect captured on the front door camera. 

In the seventh week of the investigation into the disappearance of the 84-year-old mother of “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie, doorbell camera video shared by the FBI on Feb. 10 remains the only known images of the suspect.

Lance Leising, a retired FBI supervisory special agent, told CBS News it all points to “a lack of meaningful leads. That’s the initial thing it says to me.” 

“It becomes much harder to keep the investigation going, keep it current and fight for new leads,” he added.

DNA recovered from the scene is still being analyzed, with investigators turning to forensic genetic genealogy in hopes of breaking the case open. It’s a technique that’s been used in the past to find other high-profile criminals, including Bryan Kohberger, the man who killed four University of Idaho students in 2022. 

Leising warned, however, that the process “takes a while.”

“Maybe you’ve got multiple people within the same DNA family that could potentially be suspects. You have to investigate each one of those independently,” he said. 

Authorities also continue to receive tips, with over 1,500 potential leads coming into the FBI after the Guthrie family announced a $1 million reward. But it’s been nearly three weeks since the family last called on the public for help and more than a month since law enforcement held a news conference to discuss the case.

“I’d like to be hopeful that — and I’m sure the family is incredibly hopeful — that the silence is because they’re on to something,” Leising said. “They just need to investigate harder.”

Kanye West is pushing back against the jury’s verdict in his Malibu mansion trial, filing a motion on 13 March asking a Los Angeles Superior Court judge to either grant a new trial or reverse the decision outright.

The Grammy-winning rapper, 48, who now goes by Ye, was ordered to pay over $100,000 in damages after a two-week trial in which former worker Tony Saxon alleged he was injured on the job, went unpaid and was wrongfully terminated while working on West’s $57 million Malibu home.

Saxon had initially sought $1.7 million in compensatory damages, but the jury awarded him $140,000 with no additional punitive damages, a sum based solely on his injury claims, as both parties previously confirmed.

West’s new motion argues the award should not stand, contending that Saxon presented no admissible medical bills, no medical records establishing injury and no credible expert testimony to support his claims. 

“This case went to the jury without a single admissible medical bill, without any medical records establishing injury, and without expert testimony grounded in any reliable causation or valuation methodology,” the filing states. 

“Yet the jury nevertheless awarded Plaintiff $100,000 in economic damages, $50,000 for past economic loss and $50,000 for future economic loss. That award cannot stand.”

The motion goes further, arguing that even if damages were justified, Saxon, described as an unlicensed contractor, would be legally barred from collecting them under California contractor licensing statutes. 

“At a minimum, the Court should order a new trial limited to damages,” the filing adds.

Saxon’s attorney Ronald Zambrano is unmoved. 

He told PEOPLE the motion amounts to an attempt to relitigate an issue the court had already rejected before trial even began. 

“We have a strong confidence the judge will make the same decisions and leave the jury’s verdict as is,” he said.

Saxon’s original civil complaint, first filed in September 2023, alleged he was hired as a project manager for the property in September 2021, brought on to serve as full-time security and a live-in caretaker at $20,000 a week. 

He claimed he received only one of those payments and was forced to sleep in makeshift conditions on the property, using his coat as bedding on the ground while West allegedly ignored his complaints.