Decided to walk home? Police clearing debris on M6 forced to close motorway for longer than planned after woman goes walkabout on the hard shoulder Police released image of woman walking along M6 in Birmingham on July 20 Officers who were clearing debris had to close motorway longer than planned The pedestrian decided to walk along … Read more
We’ll make 400k miles gleam again: Volunteers on road to goal of clearing million miles of litter In less than a month more than 60,000 people have responded to litter pick call It comes as Daily Mail helps launch Keep Britain Tidy Great British Spring Clean Volunteers from across the country pledged to help clean … Read more
The morning after the BLIGHT before: Litter-pickers begin mammoth task of clearing beer cans, food cartons and laughing gas canisters left by Easter Sunday revellers Primrose Hill – known for awe-inspiring view across central London – one of the green spaces to be affected Came as Britons packed beaches and parks on Easter Sunday to … Read more
HS2 diggers have started clearing a corner of ancient woodland that helped inspire Roald Dahl in order to build the £98bn high-speed railway line. Around 1.7acres of Jones Hill Wood, which stretches across 4.4acres in the Buckinghamshire countryside, is set to be dug up in order to make way for the project. The ancient woodland, … Read more
Britain’s transition into a nation of accidental savers last year certainly had an impact on its credit card bill. Those with extra disposable income and nowhere to spend it as a result of the lockdown opted to pay down their debts and fatten their bank balances, where once the nation eschewed a savings habit. Britain … Read more
A team of workers descended upon an artificial lake in Serbia today to clear the vast stretch of waste floating on its surface. Two barges sailed up and down the polluted waters to collect the thick layer of plastic and waste that had accumulated at the foot of the Lim River hydro-electric power plant on … Read more
MEMOIR NOT THE TYPE by Camilla Thurlow (John Blake £16.99, 288 pp) Camilla Thurlow was not exactly your average Love Island contestant when she appeared on the reality dating show in 2017. She was not, like many islanders, a personal trainer, sexy scaffolder or nebulous influencer. Thurlow’s job was far more dangerous: explosive ordinance disposal … Read more
Coronavirus first appeared among workers clearing bat faeces from Chinese mineshaft back in 2012 and may not have come from Wuhan market, scientists say Miners were removing bat faeces from the Mojiang mine in Yunnan province Six fell ill with a pneumonia-like illness which resulted in three of them dying Sample tissue from patients with were sent … Read more
Fewer students have found university places through clearing, figures from this year’s school leavers have shown. More than 13,000 applicants have been accepted on to degree courses through the annual process – down 24% on the same point last year. The figures come the day after students across England, Wales and Northern Ireland received their … Read more
Biggest ever university clearing: Thousands of extra students will get college places after their results as institutions place ‘quantity over quality to earn some bucks’ Around 80,000 students could get a university place during clearing this year Figure is up from 73,000 from last August in the weeks after A-Levels results day MP Robert Halfon … Read more