19 h. ago Fundraising groups step up to help reopen national park sites and welcome visitors

One of Mississippi’s most-visited cultural attractions has reopened in the midst of the government shutdown, thanks to funding from a nonprofit group

Politics

3 d. ago Caravan owners at Welsh holiday park 'heartbroken' as they leave site for final time

Caravan owners found out earlier this month that the holiday park was closing down

Politics

7 d. ago Grand Canyon National Park will reopen portions of North Rim after destructive wildfire subsides

Grand Canyon National Park will soon reopen portions of the North Rim to public access in the aftermath of a wildfire that destroyed a historic lodge and dozens of cabins

Events

2 w. ago Ayrshire holiday park owners announce plan to site 15 new caravans

A planning application has been lodged on behalf of Garton Caravan Park, seeking permission to carry out work at their existing site.

Politics

2 w. ago Raw sewage spills into protected parkland at twice the rate of other areas

The average length of the spills for each national park site was 549 hours last year, according to a probe by water experts

Politics

2 w. ago Travellers who bulldozed field near Sir Winston Churchill's family home to erect site in just 48 hours can STAY for now after High Court battle

The group caused outrage among locals after transforming the Kent site into a caravan park in just 48 hours - working at an 'extraordinary pace' in an alleged bid to avoid council action.

Events

3 w. ago Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people

Operated by crime syndicates and fostered by the country’s military junta, the number of vast complexes such as KK Park on the Thai-Myanmar border has doubled since 2021Five years ago, the land now home to KK Park – a vast, heavily guarded complex stretching for 210 hectares (520 acres) along the churning Moei River that forms Myanmar’s border with Thailand – was little more than empty fields.Set against rugged mountains south of the town of Myawaddy, KK Park, with its on-site hospital, restaurants, bank and neat lines of villas with manicured lawns, looks more like the campus of a Silicon Valley tech company than what is really is: the frontline of a multibillion-dollar criminal fraud industry fuelled by human trafficking and brutal violence. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Israeli arms manufacturer closes UK facility targeted by Palestine Action

Exclusive: Elbit Systems UK site in Bristol was subject of protest days before direct action group was proscribedAn Israeli arms manufacturer’s facility in Bristol which was repeatedly targeted by Palestine Action appears to have closed unexpectedly.The Elbit Systems UK site in the Aztec West business park was the subject of dozens of protests by Palestine Action, including on 1 July, days before the direct action group was banned under the Terrorism Act. Continue reading...

Politics

last month Famous French theme park submits plans for £600m Oxfordshire site

If approved, the UK park will open in phases from 2029

Economics

last month Work begins on 34 new Wheatley homes in Glasgow’s Gallowgate

Work has started on 34 homes for social rent and two commercial units on the site of an old car park in Glasgow.

Society