Month: April 2021

Concerns about the security of a car stopped by police on the M20 saw the motorway closed and bomb disposal experts called in, a force has said. Kent Police brought the car to a halt earlier using “tactical contact” near Junction 9, after it refused to stop. A spokesman said an Army team attended “as […]

Aberaeron, Ceredigion Famous for the brightly coloured Georgian houses that line the town’s pretty quay, Aberaeron has become something of a foodie hub in recent years, with the Cellar Restaurant voted the best in Wales in 2019. Days are best spent on the water: choose from dolphin-spotting trips, boat tours of Cardigan Bay or even […]

The first cases of the Covid-19 variant first identified in India have been detected in Leicester.Leicester’s Director of Public Health, Professor Ivan Browne, says that all three cases detected in Leicester are linked to travel from India prior to the country being added to the Government’s red list last Friday (23 April).The India variant was […]

With dozens of flights still landing at Vancouver’s international airport every day, a researcher studying how borders are managed during pandemics says the latest measures put in place to limit non-essential travel in B.C. don’t go far enough.

Strong winds could bring disruption to parts of the UK with forecasters warning of gusts of up to 65mph. A Met Office yellow warning for disruptive winds stretching from Wales across to East Anglia and including all of the south of England is in place until 9am on Tuesday. The winds are expected to sweep […]

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O ur relationship with the natural world is balanced on a knife-edge, which means our own lives, too, are facing an uncertain future. For the first time in history, we can draw from a compendium of scientific research that not only warns us to take better care of the Earth, but shows us how to […]

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Reading a truly good book is the perfect pastime – it can transport your far from your current woes, as well as spark imagination and emotion in a way that many things cannot. And, with the announcement of the Book Prize for Fiction 2020 longlist, there’s plenty to get stuck into. All 13 books on […]