My idea of happiness? A strimmer and a bramble-choked path

The bane of walkers’ lives is overgrown, impassable paths. We are blessed with many public footpaths…

Quarter of native UK mammals at imminent risk of extinction

A quarter of Britain’s native mammals are “at imminent risk of extinction”, according to the scientists…

One in three children have dangerous levels of lead in their blood

Fledgling 0601: the baby cockatoo that rose from the ashes of Australia’s bushfires

Somewhere on Australia’s Kangaroo Island, a fledgling glossy black-cockatoo with identity number 0601 is laying down…