A Conservative-led council in Lancashire has voted unanimously to demand the government stick to its manifesto commitment against fracking, and to demand clarity on what…
View More Tory-led council votes to demand Truss stick to no fracking pledgeTag: North of England
More than 100 hen harriers fledge in England for first time in a century
Nearly 120 rare hen harrier chicks have fledged in England this year, the highest number for more than a century, England’s conservation agency has said.…
View More More than 100 hen harriers fledge in England for first time in a centuryUndersea nuclear waste dump off Cumbria would imperil marine life, experts warn
Plans to dispose of radioactive nuclear waste beneath the seabed off the north-west coast of England risk seriously harming marine life including mammals such as…
View More Undersea nuclear waste dump off Cumbria would imperil marine life, experts warnNorth-east England overtakes London as UK’s child poverty hotspot
The north-east of England has the highest rate of child poverty of anywhere in the UK, for the first time overtaking London as the nation’s…
View More North-east England overtakes London as UK’s child poverty hotspotThe right to swim: mass trespass of Kinder reservoir planned
At 2pm on 24 April 1932, hundreds of rebellious ramblers descended on Kinder Scout, Derbyshire’s highest point, to “take action to open up the fine…
View More The right to swim: mass trespass of Kinder reservoir plannedRare kingfisher sighting in Preston draws thousands
It is perhaps the biggest American star to visit Preston in years. A “spectacular” shaggy-crested belted kingfisher has drawn several thousand people to a nature…
View More Rare kingfisher sighting in Preston draws thousands‘Quite incredible’: some of world’s rarest camellias discovered in Yorkshire
Horticultural experts have compared it to finding a wondrous and unknown library of rare first editions, said the head gardener of Wentworth Woodhouse, Scott Jamieson,…
View More ‘Quite incredible’: some of world’s rarest camellias discovered in YorkshireGiant millipedes as long as cars roamed northern England, fossil reveals
Giant millipedes as long as a car and weighing 50kg once hunted across northern England, experts have revealed, following the discovery of a 326m-year-old fossil.…
View More Giant millipedes as long as cars roamed northern England, fossil revealsDormouse bridge across railway line could save endangered species
Measuring 12 metres long and just 30cm wide, it’s a bridge of miniature proportions. But it is hoped that the square metal tube – set…
View More Dormouse bridge across railway line could save endangered speciesNorth-south divide on air pollution ‘a threat to economies and health’
The delayed introduction of measures to tackle the UK’s air pollution crisis will exacerbate the glaring health inequalities and entrench the north-south divide, according to…
View More North-south divide on air pollution ‘a threat to economies and health’