5 h. ago Rugby’s international heavyweights join forces to deliver big blow to R360

A statement released by all the Six Nations unions except Wales, plus South Africa, New Zealand and Australia, is scathing of the rebel competition.

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24 h. ago Historic Scottish woodland trail with play park near 'Scotland's Best Chippy'

The Smugglers' Trail in Troon is a great walk for families

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3 d. ago Independent south east London bakery shortlisted for national bakery of the year

Independent south east London bakery shortlisted for national bakery of the year  This Is Local London

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4 d. ago Asad Rehman’s journey from antiracism campaigner in Burnley to head of Friends of the Earth

Climate crisis is ‘interconnected crisis of inequality’, says Rehman, who began organising at his school in the 1970s Each weekday morning, every child in the south Asian community in Burnley would gather before making the journey to school. It was the 1970s, the National Front were mobilising, and they were the children of south Asian workers invited to Britain a decade earlier to fill labour shortages.Among them was Asad Rehman, who had moved to the Lancashire town with his family from Pakistan at the age of four. “We would all walk together, because it was dangerous to walk alone,” he remembers. “Younger children in the middle, older children around the edge, because we’d be attacked on the way.” Continue reading...

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4 d. ago The ancient forest trail that is officially one of the best scenic walks near London

The ancient forest trail that is officially one of the best scenic walks near London  Time Out Worldwide

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1 week ago This riverside trail is officially the best scenic walk near London

This riverside trail is officially the best scenic walk near London  Time Out Worldwide

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1 week ago Edinburgh walker Ian Currie missing for eight days near Glenfinnan area and Cape Wrath Trail found by police

Ian Currie, from Edinburgh, had been missing for eight days, but has been found.

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1 week ago Edinburgh walker Ian Currie missing for eight days near Glenfinnan area and Cape Wrath Trail traced by police

Ian Currie, from Edinburgh, had been missing for eight days, but has been traced.

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1 week ago The stunning Scottish walking trail dubbed ‘Scotland in 57 miles’

The route follows footpaths, tracks, roads, and hills, offering diverse landscapes of shorelines, forests, hills, and lochs.

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2 w. ago M25 closure LIVE: Huge section of major UK motorway closed after crash

Part of the M25 has closed as firefighters battle a vehicle fire with National Highways South East telling drivers being told to look out for diversion routes this afternoon

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2 w. ago New CCTV image released of walker missing on Cape Wrath Trail in Highlands, near Glenfinnan Viaduct

Walker Ian Currie went missing five days ago.

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2 w. ago New CCTV image released of Edinburgh pensioner who vanished in Highlands

Ian Currie, from the capital, was last seen in Glenfinnan on Tuesday, September 16 having set off to walk the Cape Wrath trail before disappearing.

Economics

2 w. ago Colourful UK forest trail past stunning waterfalls named one of 'best autumn walks'

The Hafren Forest in Mid Wales has been named as the UK's most popular autumn walk. t's a stunning forest with a rich history and a variety of walking trails

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2 w. ago Walker missing from Scots trail for three days as search continues

Ian Currie was taking on the Cape Wrath trail in the Highlands when he failed to arrive at a bunkhouse.

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3 w. ago Chemical castration pilot of sex offenders to expand to two more regions – Lammy

The Government had pledged to widen the existing pilot from four prisons in the south-west to 20 prisons nationwide in May.

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3 w. ago Playboy model who promised to strip if her country won World Cup now football commentator

Larissa Riquelme, who promised to bare all if her nation won the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, has taken a career U-turn that has stunned her fans

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3 w. ago US judge rejects lawsuit challenge to SpaceX launch site over risks to wildlife

FAA ruled to have satisfied obligations in granting approval for expanded SpaceX operations next to wildlife refugeA US district court judge on Monday rejected a suit by conservation groups challenging the Federal Aviation Administration approval in 2022 of expanded rocket launch operations by Elon Musk’s SpaceX next to a national wildlife refuge in south Texas.The groups said noise, light pollution, construction and road traffic also degrade the area, home to endangered ocelots and jaguarundis, as well as nesting sites for endangered Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles and for threatened shorebirds. US district judge Carl Nichols in Washington said FAA had satisfied its obligation “to take a hard look at the effects of light on nearby wildlife”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago South Korea to review possible human rights violations in US raid on workers

Lee Jae Myung says ‘bewildering’ incident may scare off future investment after Ice detained about 475 peopleUS politics live – latest updatesSouth Korea’s government has said it will launch an investigation into whether human rights violations were committed when hundreds of its citizens were detained in a US immigration raid.About 475 people, mostly South Korean nationals, were arrested at the construction site of an electric vehicle battery factory in the US state of Georgia on 4 September. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘All of Sussex is laid out before us’: walking a new trail in the South Downs national park

Perfect for a weekend getaway, the Petworth Way takes in historic estates, welcoming inns and spectacular viewsThere are many ways to make an entrance, but lurching into a pub full of smartly dressed diners while windswept, muddy and more than a little frayed wouldn’t be my first choice. At 7.30pm on a sunny Sunday evening, the Welldiggers Arms – a country pub just outside Petworth in West Sussex – is full of people tucking into hearty roasts, the glass-walled restaurant overlooking glorious downland scenery, the sun all but disappeared behind the hills. For my husband, Mark, and I, it’s more than a stop for supper; the pub marks the halfway point on our two-day walking adventure along a brand new trail, the 25-mile Petworth Way.Twenty-five miles may not sound like much (I have keen walker friends who would do it in a day) but, for us, it’s the perfect length, with plenty of pubs along the way. The first leg, from Haslemere to Petworth, covers countryside we’re both entirely unfamil...

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3 w. ago Europe’s ‘best walking destination’ is also one of the cheapest for holidays

Dubbed the ‘Camino of the East’, the 1,400 km long-distance walking trail, Via Transilvanica, is helping position Romania as Europe’s next great walking destination

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