The Wasdale team says the kindness shown from all across the world is a "tremendous help".

Great Western Railway service recharges in three and a half minutes between trips on west London line The UK’s first superfast-charging train running only on battery power will come into passenger service this weekend – operating a five-mile return route in west London. Great Western Railway (GWR) will send the converted London Underground train out from 5.30am to cover the full Saturday timetable on the West Ealing to Greenford branch line, four stops and 12 minutes each way, and now carrying up to 273 passengers, should its celebrity stoke up the demand. Continue reading...

The bloc’s defense commissioner calls for building a European pillar in NATO — challenging the alliance chief who says America’s role is essential.

Olympic organizers invoke an ancient pledge to call for the suspension of all wars

The Environment Agency says the arrests are a "vital step" into the Kidlington dump investigation.

More than 300 brown hairstreak butterfly eggs discovered near Llandeilo this winter after decade of decline Record numbers of eggs of the rare brown hairstreak butterfly have been found in south-west Wales after landowners stopped flailing hedges every year. The butterfly lays its eggs on blackthorn every summer. But when land managers and farmers mechanically cut hedges every autumn, thousands of the eggs are unknowingly destroyed. Continue reading...

Older men seen as ‘gaining wisdom’ but women must keep looking younger or be ‘idiosyncratic’, review hears Older women disappear from presenting roles across the BBC while older men are regarded as “gaining gravitas and wisdom”, according to an internal review of the broadcaster’s record on representation. A “noticeable mismatch” in the number of staff and freelance male and female presenters over the age of 60 was uncovered by the review. Continue reading...

New Zealand rejects Trump’s invitation to join Gaza’s Board of Peace

Edward Harris, chair of Warwickshire county council, owned homes with ‘multiple serious safety failures’ A Reform UK council chair has resigned after it was found he was illegally running two unsafe rental properties, according to a neighbouring local authority. Edward Harris, the chair of Warwickshire county council, owned two unlicensed houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) in Staffordshire that had “multiple serious safety failures”, according to Labour-led Tamworth borough council. Continue reading...

A charity cannot bring a High Court challenge to rules allowing trans people to use single-sex facilities in Hampstead Heath’s swimming ponds, a judge has ruled. Sex Matters sought to take legal actio...