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Projects aimed at halting ‘alarming decline’ in species receive share of £25m
The Environment Department (Defra) said 20 projects will be given up to £3 million in grants…
Water firm profits almost doubled since 2019, Lib Dems claim
In 2022/2023, England’s water firms made £1.7 billion, up 82% since 2018/2019, according to party analysis…
Clothes moths numbers tumble in historic homes in 2023, National Trust says
The conservation charity said overall pest numbers were down 11% compared to 2022, continuing a fall…
Yellow box junctions responsible for the most fines are too big – study
The RAC said the analysis it commissioned shows drivers risk being “fined unnecessarily” when their actions…
Government could back Liz Truss’s transgender law reforms
Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch is understood to be sympathetic to proposals from the former prime minister,…
Labour appears split over returning whip to Diane Abbott
The Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP lost the whip in April last year after writing…
Police officer ‘could still be alive if proper search of gunman carried out’
Matt Ratana, of the Metropolitan Police, was murdered in the early hours of September 25 2020 by…
Varadkar says Ireland, US relationship ‘stronger and deeper than ever’
By PA News Agency Taoiseach Leo Varadkar speaks to the media at the Dupont Circle Hotel,…
Survivors say 60 people have died in the Mediterranean after migrant vessel’s motor broke
Migrants rescued from a deflating dinghy in the Mediterranean have said 60 people died on their…
British troops speak out about exposure to toxic chemicals | Redefining ‘extremism’ with Sam Coates
In the early months of the Iraq war in 2003, around 88 British troops were deployed…
