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UK woodlands ‘reaching crisis point’ amid ‘barrage’ of threats
They’re essential to the future of our environment and the fight against climate change, but a new report warns that the UK’s native woodlands have reached a crisis point, with just a handful in good condition. The survey, by the Woodland...


SNP targets Scotland’s most marginal seat as it seeks pro-independence majority
It is the most marginal seat in Scotland, where at the last election Labour hung on with a wafer-thin majority. This time around, Dumbarton is being fiercely contested, and it’s a key target for the Scottish National Party, who are hoping to bu...


London Bridge terror attack inquest hears from witnesses who tried to help victim
It was a conference on prisoner rehabilitation that turned into a terror attack leaving two people dead. The inquest into the London Bridge attack in November 2019 has heard from witnesses who tried to help Jack Merritt immediately after he was stabb...


Tories have questions to answer over Greensill affair – Labour MP Angela Eagle
The Labour MP Dame Angela Eagle says the Conservative government have many questions to answer over the Greensill affair. The member of the Commons Treasury Select Committee and former Treasury minister, claims the government wants to sweep the scand...


Treasury Committee to launch inquiry into Greensill collapse
Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer has accused the Government of bringing back “Tory sleaze”. He claimed that the row over David Cameron’s lobbying on behalf of the financier Lex Greensill had revealed a revolving door between the gover...


Invasion of the rodents a grim reality of lockdown
For most of us, an invasion of rats is the stuff of nightmares, but now the invasion of the rodents has become a grim reality.


Prince Philip: TV viewers switch off blanket coverage
When the Duke of Edinburgh's death was announced on Friday, the nation's broadcasters, including Channel 4, rearranged their schedules to make way for extended programmes paying tribute to his life. 


UK exports to EU rebound but many firms still struggling with post-Brexit red tape
Trade between the UK and the European Union rebounded in February after a slump in January caused by Brexit.


Surge testing for South Africa Covid-variant carried out in two London boroughs
Hundreds of thousands of people across south London are being urged to get tested for the coronavirus in an effort to contain an outbreak of the highly infectious South Africa variant.


‘A minister of the crown becoming a paid lobbyist is unfortunate’ – former attorney general Dominic Grieve
We spoke to former Conservative MP Dominic Grieve who, as attorney general, was David Cameron's principal legal adviser between 2010 and 2014.


Top civil servant advised Greensill while still working in Whitehall
A senior civil servant advised the scandal-hit finance firm Greensill Capital while he was still working in Whitehall, it's emerged today.


Has Covid changed the ‘cult of celebrity’?
History was made at the Baftas last night after Chloe Zhao became the first woman of colour to be named best director, her film Nomadland emerging as the big winner of the night's awards.


Shirley Williams, former Labour minister and Lib Dem peer, dies at 90
The Liberal Democrat peer who helped to change the face of centre-left politics in the UK, Baroness Shirley Williams, has died at the age of 90.


Inquest opens into deaths of two young people in London Bridge terror attack
The inquest into the deaths of two young people in a terror attack on London Bridge in November 2019 has opened, with newly released CCTV footage showing convicted terrorist Usman Khan chasing people with knives taped to his hands.


‘We have to ask how long recovery will last’ – economist Mariana Mazzucato
Julie Abraham is chief executive of Richer Sounds, the home entertainment retailer with shops across the country, and Mariana Mazzucato is an economist who's written about recovery from the pandemic.



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