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Works to reduce flash flooding in Mousehole lead to a new school playground being installed. Source link

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Native British wildlife will feature on the next set of £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes, the Bank of England has announced, but it has yet to be decided which creatures will make the cut. While politicians from Nigel Farage to Ed Davey have sought to confect outrage about ditching Winston Churchill and Jane Austen…

Leadership behavior in uncertain times shapes workplace experience. Here are three signals leaders send that can strengthen or add strain to the work environment. Source link

At the meeting on Monday, committee members were told that locations in Bedford town centre also showed significant contamination despite being miles away from sewage treatment works. Horn said he was working with the Environment Agency and the University of Birmingham to identify pollution sources. An Environment Agency spokesperson said: “With our newly created water…

Three wild European bison died on Sunday morning after being hit by a train in Poland’s vast UNESCO-listed Białowieża forest, which straddles the border with Belarus, local police told AFP. A herd of Europe’s largest mammals, whose male specimens can reach 900 kilogrammes in weight, wandered onto the tracks as a locomotive carrying some 50…

As night descends on the grand offices of Lincolnshire county council, everything appears orderly and calm. Paintings of long-forgotten councillors and dignitaries stare out into an empty drawing room. The council chamber is silent and dark. Bored receptionists glance at their phones while a handful of admin staff hunch over glowing screens. But a rebellion is…

Officers searched the premises on 4 March after receiving reports of baled waste. Source link

Officers searched the premises on 4 March after receiving reports of “baled” waste, bags full of shredded rubbish. Higginson said: “This order follows on from the successful restriction orders we obtained at Eastchurch and Minister on the Isle of Sheppey, and at Hoads Wood near Ashford, and shows we will act against those who flout…

Concerns around energy and water use of wave of new hyperscale facilities under development They have been pioneered by the titans of big tech such as Google and Microsoft as a way of handling the vast computational demands of artificial intelligence and cloud computing, and are regarded by some as the next frontier of Scotland’s…