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Secret planting operation boosts critically endangered Welsh shrub
At a secret location in the Welsh countryside, naturalists have planted 30 young specimens of a once-common plant that has been collected - and nibbled - almost to extinction. Cotoneaster Cambricus, Welsh Cotoneaster, only grows on wild and windy cliffs in North Wales. But decades of painstaking conservation efforts have boosted that number to around 110, helped by the latest planting of specimens cultivated at nearby Chester Zoo.
2-min read - NewsThe Guardian
Starmer says he cannot ‘turn the taps on’ to fix crisis in council funding
Labour leader was asked how party would plug £4bn gap at launch of its local election campaign in West Midlands
3-min read - HealthThe Guardian
‘People mustn’t feel meat is being taken away’: German hospitals serve planetary health diet
A group of hospitals serve up a menu rich in plants – and say they have had few complaints
6-min read - PoliticsThe Telegraph
Joe Lieberman, Democratic US Senator who became the first Jewish vice-presidential nominee – obituary
Senator Joe Lieberman, who has died aged 82, was Al Gore’s running mate in the US Democrats’ presidential campaign of 2000 when he came within a whisker of becoming America’s first Jewish vice-president; in 2008, however, he crossed party lines and endorsed the Republican Senator John McCain for president.
6-min read - LifestyleThe Telegraph
A booze run to France still stacks up – here’s how to do it
Gone are the days when you could fill the boot – and the roof box – to the max with cases of wine at Calais and make your vinous haul last well into the winter. But shop wisely and that trolley dash on the return leg of your holiday could easily pay off. We show you how.
4-min read - OpinionThe Independent
Voices: Hot cross bun-flavoured cheese is not an ‘insult to Christianity’
COMMENT: Morrisons’ latest offering has offended religious groups, who have said it represents the ‘decay of Christendom’. Ryan Coogan argues that kind of attitude is causing more harm to the church than any cheese ever could
4-min read - NewsEvening Standard
Beckenham: Man, 19, arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after train stabbing
A man in his 20s is in a critical but stable condition following the attack
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