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How replacing sheep with cows is helping one of Britain's rarest butterflies make an unexpected comeback

For years, sheep have been the default grazing animal across Britain's uplands, quietly shaping the landscape without anyone really questioning it. But a new set of studies from the Yorkshire Dales suggests cows might actually be doing a much better job, at least if you care about butterflies. Researchers at…

The Times of India

Binface to Loonies: All the fringe candidates fighting Nigel Farage in Clacton by-election

A record 34 candidates are running in the vote on August 13, including 20 independents and a number of joke contenders

Evening Standard

Andy Burnham poised to be next UK PM

Andy Burnham is expected to become Labour leader next week. He will then take office as Britain’s new prime minister on July 20. Burnham secured significant backing from Labour MPs for his leadership bid. He will replace Keir Starmer, who is expected to resign that day. Burnham aims to offer…

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Britain sends message to France on white cliffs of Dover as Bayeux Tapestry arrives overnight

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Burnham will have to master something Starmer couldn’t: the art of dealing with Donald Trump

The new PM will need a superb foreign secretary and the ability to get like-minded countries on board. Early signs suggest he may have the right skills, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian - UK

Britain’s lidos deserve this second golden age

Letter: Katherine Arnott on the health and community benefits of lidos

The Guardian - UK

Barbados leader rejects ‘asinine’ claim by former UK minister that ex-colonies should repay Britain

Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley is describing as “asinine” a suggestion that former colonies pay Britain back for its investment in them

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Prince Harry wants Britain to develop more 'national resilience'

Prince Harry has called for Britain to show more "national resilience" at an event in Birmingham to mark the one-year countdown to the Invictus Games in the city.

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France and Britain spent six years tunnelling beneath the English Channel until both sides met 40 metres below the seabed in 1990, creating a 50.5-kilometre rail link between Britain and Europe.

The Channel Tunnel, a major engineering feat, linked Britain and mainland Europe. This project culminated on December 1, 1990, after years of digging. Engineers used advanced surveying and laser guidance for precise alignment underground. The tunnel now provides a reliable transport route regardless of sea conditions. It significantly changed transportation…

The Times of India

Britain's trees are now shedding giant branches to survive heatwaves, and scientists warn that up to half of Kew's trees could be vulnerable by 2090

British summers now see large branches falling from trees due to climate change. This summer branch drop is a stress response to conserve vital moisture. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, lost over 400 trees during the 2022 heatwave. Hot droughts and dry soil stress trees, potentially causing fatal embolisms. Future…

The Times of India

In The Room | Will Burnham make you richer?

Andy Burnham has promised “growth in every postcode”. It is a big, attractive political line – the sort of thing voters want to hear after years of feeling poorer, public services feeling stretched, and wages struggling to keep up with the cost of living. It is also a promise that…

The Independent UK

White Cliffs of Dover delivers message to France as Bayeux Tapestry arrives overnight

Britain has sent a thank-you message to France after the Bayeux Tapestry arrived in London in the early hours of Friday, 10 July.

The Independent UK

How a secret CIA operation in 1953 set the stage for decades of tension between Iran and United States

US-Iran hostility stems from a 1953 CIA-backed coup which removed Prime Minister Mossadegh. Britain's oil dispute with Iran triggered the crisis and led to economic pressure. The Shah's rule, supported by the US, fostered growing opposition and anger. This historical distrust fueled the 1979 revolution and subsequent US embassy hostage…

The Times of India

French tycoon Xavier Niel becomes Vodafone's top shareholder in $6 billion deal

French billionaire Xavier Niel will soon be Vodafone's largest shareholder. UAE's e& group is selling its entire stake for nearly six billion dollars. This acquisition makes Niel the biggest investor in Britain's largest mobile operator. Vodafone has recently undergone significant restructuring and exited two markets. The company welcomes Niel as…

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Prince Harry latest: Meghan Markle brings Archie and Lilibet to UK for reunion with King Charles

Charles welcomed Meghan and Harry’s children to his Highgrove residence during the afternoon after days of speculation over whether the family meeting would take place

Radio France Internationale

Bayeux Tapestry delivered to British Museum under cover of darkness

After almost 1,000 years, the Bayeux Tapestry is back on English soil – spirited to London's British Museum on Friday in the dead of night, after a high-tech and high-security operation in which any slip-up could have spelled disaster.

The Guardian - UK

Here’s how Andy Burnham can finance a reindustrialised Britain – without doing a Liz Truss

Britain’s PM-in-waiting is right that the country has been failed by 40 years of neoliberalism. There will be obstacles, but he must embrace the radicalism, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

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Nick Clegg says Brexit made UK ‘less safe and less sovereign’

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Nick Clegg: Brexit was a ‘punch in the face’ for Britain

The former deputy prime minister compared Brexit to a ‘massive cardiac arrest’ – and warned Britain now needs Europe more than ever

The Times of India

Andy Burnham set to become next UK PM, seventh in 10 years

Andy Burnham is on the brink of becoming Britain's next prime minister after securing overwhelming backing from Labour MPs to replace Keir Starmer as party leader.

The Guardian - UK

The Hay Wain: Walking Constable’s Landscape review – a masterpiece for the climate crisis age

While Britain boils in a heatwave, a new exhibition built around the much-reproduced canvas reminds us of the beauty of the natural world – and what we could lose

The Independent UK

Andy Burnham may regret promising to deport the Rochdale grooming gang leader

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: By vowing to ‘stop at nothing’ to rid Britain of Shabir Ahmed, the PM-in-waiting has tapped into widespread fury at a Pakistan-born man jailed for the rape, abuse and trafficking of girls. But he has also handed himself the first major headache of his premiership

The Independent UK

Former top judge hits out against ‘vilification’ after Harry whitewash claim

Judge Mr Justice Nicklin said the claimants had failed to prove the allegations

The Guardian - UK

Andy Burnham can win back Labour voters by supporting migrants

Letter: Simon Steyne says the MP who is expected to be the next prime minister has a chance to appeal to anti-racist former supporters who reject xenophobic policies

The National (Scotland)

Restore double-down on Rupert Lowe trivialising Dunblane massacre as 'one murder'

RESTORE Britain have refused to apologise for their leader dismissing the Dunblane massacre as “one murder” and have instead doubled-down ...

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