Europe’s vegetable garden is in Andalusia, southern Spain. It is so vast that it can even be seen from space: if you open Google Maps and look west of Almería, you will see a white patch that looks like a glacier, but as you zoom in, you realise it is the highest concentration of greenhouses…
Appendix: External dataset for additional validation Data description To further strengthen the reliability of the reported performance metrics and to explicitly address concerns related to possible overfitting or data leakage, additional experiments were conducted using an independent public dataset, namely the Smart Manufacturing IoT–Cloud Monitoring Dataset, available on Kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/ziya07/smart-manufacturing-iot-cloud-monitoring-dataset). This dataset was designed to…
At the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), June will help lead IIPP’s Public Value initiative, whose goals are to reinvigorate the concept of public value in economics and to operationalise a framework – rooted in public purpose – for crafting policy, measuring efficacy, and recognising and rewarding innovation. Author of The Public…
Fish 4.6 released today as the newest version of this Rust-based interactive shell for Linux and other platforms. Fish 4.6 brings better handling for the width of emoji icons, the tab completion pager now left-justifies the description of each column, set_color improvements, and a variety of other minor enhancements. Fish 4.6 also now supports the…
Up on the old logging roads near Kirkennan estate, I saw some wild roe deer. They are one of only two deer species that are native to Scotland, as well as red deer. Back in the 1700s, they were almost extinct here, but they can now be found across the country. When we were walking…
The first signs of spring shine through the shadow of Haytor Rocks, a granite guard of Dartmoor’s natural secrets. The sun’s heat warms the granite, the first bumblebees thrum over the gorse. After months of mizzly rain, it was freeing to be out on the moor again. The trees were awakening, early emergers blackthorn and…
36 homes would be ‘affordable’ Daniel Mumby and Local Democracy Reporter 06:05, 29 Mar 2026 Proposed site of 120 homes on Lascot Hill in Wedmore(Image: Local Democracy Reporting Service) A planned development of 120 homes in a scenic Somerset village will not have a “significant effect” on the local environment, Somerset Council has ruled. Cavanna…
This comes alongside a warning to residents using dodgy ‘cheaper than a skip’ waste disposal service, whose operators may be ‘linked to organised crime groups’. Police say by using these illegal services, residents could be helping drugs reach their communities, and funding the theft of plant, tools, and farm machinery. These services often advertise on…
This comes alongside a warning to residents using dodgy ‘cheaper than a skip’ waste disposal service, whose operators may be ‘linked to organised crime groups’. Police say by using these illegal services, residents could be helping drugs reach their communities, and funding the theft of plant, tools, and farm machinery. These services often advertise on…
This comes alongside a warning to residents using dodgy ‘cheaper than a skip’ waste disposal service, whose operators may be ‘linked to organised crime groups’. Police say by using these illegal services, residents could be helping drugs reach their communities, and funding the theft of plant, tools, and farm machinery. These services often advertise on…
