8 h. ago ‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement

At Maple Farm, nature is returning in droves: nightingales, grass snakes, slowworms, bats and insects. All due to the vision of a group determined to accelerate its recoveryThe manically melodic song of the nightingale is a rare sound in Britain these days, but not at Maple Farm. Four years ago, a single bird could be heard at this secluded spot in rural Surrey; this summer, they were everywhere. “We were hearing them calling all night, from five different territories,” says Meg Cookson, lead ecologist for the Youngwilders, pointing to the woodland around us. A group of Youngwilders were camping out at the site, but the birds were so loud, “we couldn’t sleep all night,” says Layla Mapemba, the group’s engagement lead. “We were all knackered the next day, but it was so cool.” An expert from the Surrey Wildlife Trust came to help them net and ring one of the nightingales the next morning, Cookson recalls: “He’d never held a nightingale in his hands before. He was crying.”Rewilding is ...

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66 h. ago Alex Murdaugh's housekeeper reveals explosive theory about what REALLY happened on night of double murder

Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson shares her explosive theories about what really happened that dark summer night - and a bombshell claim about accomplices she believes got away with it.

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2 d. ago Cop30 live: ‘Clown show’ talks run into overtime with no clarity on climate deal

Negotiations ran late last night, and as delegates begin to leave the outcome of the summit remains unclear Civil society campaigners from the developing world have accused the rich countries of spreading “duplicitous narratives” over their role in the Cop30 climate talks over the past fortnight.As the talks in Belém, Brazil, passed the deadline for their resolution on Friday, European countries indicated they would walk away from any deal that did not include a commitment for “roadmap” to phase out fossil fuels.The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new realityTen years ago the world’s leaders placed a historic bet. The 2015 Paris agreement aimed to put humanity on a path to avert dangerous climate change. A decade on, with the latest climate conference ending in Belém, Brazil, without decisive action, we can definitively say humanity has lost this bet. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Miliband urges Cop30 to find ‘creative’ routes to roadmap on phasing out fossil fuel

UK energy secretary says UN climate talks must find way to keep proposals alive despite significant resistanceSupporters of a global phaseout of fossil fuels must find “creative” ways to keep the proposal alive, including making it voluntary rather than binding, the UK energy secretary, Ed Miliband, has said in the closing stages of the UN climate talks.As the Cop30 summit in Brazil carried on past the Friday night deadline, the prospect of countries agreeing on the need for a roadmap to a global “transition away from fossil fuels” looked increasingly dim. A first draft of the potential outcome text from the summit had contained the formulation, but in the updated draft text produced on Friday by the Brazilian presidency it had been excised. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Officer acquitted in death of Ta'Kiya Young, a pregnant Black mother accused of shoplifting

An Ohio officer who fatally shot a pregnant Black mother in a supermarket parking lot after she was accused of shoplifting has been acquitted/convicted of murder

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4 d. ago Starmer rebuffs renewed talk of Andy Burnham leadership challenge

PM says Burnham doing ‘really good job’ as Manchester mayor and urges colleagues not to brief against each otherKeir Starmer has attempted to dampen the latest round of speculation about his leadership, insisting that one of his potential rivals, Andy Burnham, is doing a “really good job as mayor of Manchester” and warning colleagues not to waste their time briefing against each other.The prime minister gave his backing to Burnham on Thursday night as he travelled to the G20 summit in Johannesburg, after the Manchester mayor repeatedly failed to rule out challenging Starmer for his party’s leadership during interviews on Thursday. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Cop30 live: ‘We need to think about how to live without fossil fuels’ Brazilian president Lula tells summit

Brazilian president underlines need to reduce emissions as Turkey set to host next year’s summitOne big piece of news out of Belém last night was that Turkey will host Cop31 next year, with Australia leading the actual negotiations, under a deal to end an unprecedented stand-off between prospective host countries.The unusual arrangement, which was being negotiated overnight and is expected to be officially announced today, would see the event take place in Antalya, a 2000-year-old Mediterranean city that has become the country’s tourism capital. Turkey would manage the event while Australia would preside over the diplomatic wrangling to stop the planet from heating and keep people safe from the breakdown of a stable climate. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Steve Clarke opens up on his Scotland future and reveals whether he could stay on BEYOND World Cup

STEVE CLARKE has revealed the door is still open for him to sign a new deal to STAY as Scotland boss. Clarke will lead the Tartan Army to their first World Cup in 28 years next summer. Tuesday night’s epic win over Denmark made him the first manager to qualify for THREE major tournaments after back-to-back Euros. Clarke’s...

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6 d. ago Jurors to hear closing arguments in trial of Ohio officer charged in the killing of Ta'Kiya Young

Closing arguments are next in the murder trial of an Ohio officer charged in the shooting death of Ta'Kiya Young, a pregnant Black mother killed in a supermarket parking lot after being accused of shoplifting

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6 d. ago I grew up in Spain amid a collective amnesia about Franco. It is time we faced up to our dark past | María Ramírez

This week marks 50 years of Spanish democracy, but the failure to talk more about the crimes of the dictatorship leaves us vulnerable Like most Spaniards alive today, I was born after the death of Franco 50 years ago. Even for my parents’ generation, the dictatorship that lasted from 1939 until 20 November 1975 is today a distant bad dream. Growing up, the stories I heard were mostly about the post-Franco democratic transition, a time full of promise and energy as younger people set about rebuilding everything from scratch.My mother, who was pregnant with me when she voted in the first free elections in 1977, talks about that time as the happiest of her life. International media reporting from that year described “a broad optimism” in a soon-to-be “healthy, modern, lively nation”.María Ramírez is a journalist and deputy managing editor of elDiario.es, a news outlet in Spain Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Pregnant mother and her son, 9, are beaten to a pulp and thrown to the ground by gang outside school in Chicago

A pregnant mom and her nine-year-old son were brutally attacked and slammed to the ground by a gang of schoolkids.

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6 d. ago 8 Scotland pundits react to World Cup glory night as Neil McCann blown away and Rangers boss sums up a nation

It was a night for the ages at the national stadium and like supporters, the ex pros on duty also failed to keep their emotions in check

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1 week ago Trial continues for officer charged with shooting pregnant Black woman accused of shoplifting

Trial is continuing for an Ohio police officer charged with shooting a pregnant Black mother who was killed after being accused of shoplifting in August 2023

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1 week ago California immigration detainees complained a guard harassed and sexually assaulted them. He then got promoted

Officer accused of summoning detainees to private office late at night and making threats and promises in order to coerce them into granting sexual favors

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1 week ago California immigration detainees complained a guard harassed and sexually assaulted them. He then get promoted

Officer accused of summoning detainees to private office late at night and making threats and promises in order to coerce them into granting sexual favors

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1 week ago Donald Trump says 'I have an obligation' as he confirms plan to sue BBC for $1 BILLION over doctored Panorama speech

The president confirmed he will be suing the public broadcaster for the billion-dollar sum in an interview on Fox News' Laura Ingraham Tuesday night.

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2 w. ago 'I'm in a throuple with a mother and her daughter but people are upset about something else'

In February, YouTuber Nick Yardy announced he was going to become a father of two children, revealing that a mother-daughter duo were pregnant with his kids — but that wasn’t the most shocking part.

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2 w. ago Bella Culley arrives back in the UK with her mother after pregnant Brit 'drugs mule' was freed from Georgian prison

The suspected drugs mule, 19, flew in from Tbilisi after spending five months in jail following her arrest for smuggling £200,000 of marijuana and hashish from Thailand to the ex-Soviet state.

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3 w. ago Bella Culley prepares to fly out of Georgia as she checks in with her mother after the pregnant Brit was freed from prison

The 19-year-old was released from a Georgian prison yesterday after a last-minute reprieve allowed her to leave the country.

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3 w. ago Moment emotional 'drugs mule' Bella Culley tells her father 'I'm not in jail any more!' as she walks FREE from Georgian prison, prompting delighted response from her dad

The pregnant 19-year-old was seen all smiles with her mother, Leyanne Kennedy and lawyer Malkhlaz Salakaia as she excitedly rang her father, Niel, 49, to give him the news.

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