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These design trends were everywhere at the 2024 Chelsea Flower Show – here’s how to get the look in your own backyard

From sustainable water harvesting to tangerine planting schemes, we show you how to give your garden a Chelsea-worthy uplift

Homes & Gardens

A Conversation With 'Hey Girls': How Women Are Reclaiming Control Of Menstrual Health

'Hey Girls' is a menstrual health brand that sets out to provide women with safe and sustainable sanitary products while eradicating period poverty across the UK.

International Business Times UK

Didn't get Glastonbury tickets this year? Here are the other routes into the festival

That’s right, you don’t need to attempt a break-in to have fun this summer

Evening Standard

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Extreme drought in northern Italy mirrors climate in Ethiopia

Research shows global heating creates ‘whiplash effect’ of erratic extremes – often in poorest countries

The Guardian - UK

Prince George and Princess Charlotte meet boy who tossed coin for Wimbledon final

Mu’awwiz was introduced to George and Charlotte and handed the coin used to start the final to Charlotte.

The Independent UK

UK festivals, TV shows and tours: how to have a fun-packed summer for free

Whether it’s music, festivals or food, art or nature, you don’t need to miss out if money is tight

The Guardian - UK

‘Fetch the mop – it’s a code brown!’: the diary of a Glastonbury toilet cleaner

This weekend, 700 WaterAid volunteers have been keeping the festival’s loos in working order. One rubber-gloved hero shares her highs and lows

The Guardian - UK

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Couple spend honeymoon cleaning toilets at Glastonbury Festival

They tied the knot last week

Bristol Post

Newcastle newlyweds to spend their honeymoon cleaning toilets at Glastonbury

Chelsea Clarke and Jake Taylor, who are both doctors at the RVI, are volunteering for Water Aid's Loo Crew at the festival

Chronicle Live

Eight in 10 women feel held back at work due to taboo around periods

Stress and anxiety dominate the lives of working women when they are menstruating, reveals new research marking Menstrual Hygiene Day

The Independent UK

UK music festivals: how to save money on your summer fix

From cheaper tickets to secondhand camping equipment or working some shifts, there are ways to save money

The Guardian - UK

UN warns of ‘draining humanity’s lifeblood’ amid worsening water scarcity

Secretary general urges countries to tackle ‘vampiric overconsumption’, water guzzling industries and climate crisis

The Guardian - US

My 72-hour labour was a nightmare. But at least I had access to clean water

It is a shocking fact that more than 16 million women give birth every year without this basic necessity. This cannot go on, says chef, author and presenter Nadiya Hussain

The Guardian - UK

In brutal drought, Kenyan herders look for hope underground

Generations of East Africans have tapped groundwater in the desert to survive in parched lands

The Independent UK

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The Independent UK

Works by David Hockney and Rankin to be sold in anonymous auction for WaterAid

The sale includes pieces by multiple British artists that will be sold without the names of the artists on them.

The Independent UK

‘I have never seen so many cases’: Volunteer doctors tackle horror of Pakistan flooding aftermath

Volunteers who have set up relief camps of their own tell Stuti Mishra about the challenges they are facing in helping the flood victims amid an outbreak of water-borne diseases

The Independent UK

Billie Eilish and brother Finneas join calls at Glastonbury for climate action

It came as Greenpeace protesters marched through the festival site, demanding action to reduce global warming.

Evening Standard

Glastonbury: Huge mud toilet sculpture unveiled to warn against climate change

Festival-goers will see the 2.5-metre high model which has been built using Glastonbury’s own mud

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The Independent UK

Huge mud toilet sculpture unveiled at Glastonbury to warn against climate change

Festival-goers will see the 2.5-metre high model which has been built using Glastonbury’s own mud.

Bristol Post

Glastonbury Festival to have first ever women's 'squat-and-go' urinal

"Women shouldn’t have to wait in longer queues for something as simple as going for a pee"

The Independent UK

Sir Ringo Starr joins campaign to send postcards to Prime Minister for WaterAid

The limited-edition postcards will be officially launched at Glastonbury festival.

The Independent UK

A quarter of women struggled to afford period products in the last year, study finds

One in five women and girls have relied on free period products from work, school or a charity

The Independent UK

How the climate crisis is tipping the balance to threaten Cambodia’s fishing communities

These photographs document how climate change is creating an ecological crisis for the Tonle Sap lake in Cambodia, and the struggles of the local communities whose livelihoods are now under threat

The Independent UK

Sisters of the Moon: New dystopian photo series highlights the impact lack of water has on women and girls

WaterAid and award-winning artist Poulomi Basu teamed up to create this new thought-provoking project

The Guardian - UK

The urgent need for clean water – at home and abroad

Letters: Christine McGourty, the chief executive of Water UK, calls for collaboration between companies and regulators to improve the health of UK rivers, while Claire Seaward of WaterAid warns of the spread of drug-resistant infections through dirty water

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