Hundreds of business people gathered on London’s Millennium Bridge to call for urgent governmental climate action. ‘The Queue for Climate and Nature’ was organised by Business Declares and Business Stand Up on Friday. Dressed in business attire, demonstrators walked out...
The thoughts of one Moroccan schoolteacher immediately turned to her pupils when she felt the 6.8-magnitude earthquake strike a week ago. Nesreen Abu ElFadel was in Marrakesh – but Adaseel, the mountain village that was home to her school and pupils, was closer to the epicentre. The...
Staff at an animal rehoming centre said a recent spate of people dumping animals was “heartbreaking”. In the space of 10 days last month, the RSPCA said nine puppies, five rabbits and three kittens were left in crates or dumped by roads in Cambridgeshire. All survived and were...
Archaeologists excavating land for a proposed housing development say they have made some significant finds. The team from Oxford Archaeology North (OAN) said the site in Lancashire has evidence of an Iron Age settlement and Roman occupation as well. “Unlike other Iron Age sites in...
A multimillion-pound clean-up of a radioactive hotspot in Fife has been completed – more than three decades after it was first discovered. The stretch of coastline at Dalgety Bay has been contaminated with radium from scrapped World War Two aircraft. A team of scientists and...
