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European Union’s agriculture policy “not viable” warn green experts
Current reform proposals of the EU Commission on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) are "unlikely" to improve environmental protection, say scientists
Violence flares as it is revealed three in five jails now hold more prisoners than permitted
“The figures reveal a clear relationship with overcrowding and violence in prisons."
Viral photo shows teenage girl reading Russian constitution to riot police
‘She’s just one tired girl against the police,’ said photographer Alexei Abanin.
Heat wave reaches Greenland amid threat to island’s ice sheet
Rising temperatures are expected to cause massive loss of ice in the Arctic.
Video – Moment floodwater poured over collapsed reservoir dam just hours before town was evacuated
Around 6,500 people are being urged to leave Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire after the days of heavy rainfall
Planet just 31 light years from Earth is ‘potentially habitable’
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a mission designed to comb the heavens for exoplanets, has discovered its first potentially habitable world outside of our own solar system
Sixth person dead after eating listeria-infected hospital sandwich
They died after contracting the bug by eating a pre-packed sandwich from a Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Plastic bag sales down by 90% since 5p charge introduced
The levy came into effect in England in 2015.
Archbishop of Glasgow hits out at forced evictions of asylum seekers
Philip Tartaglia has urged newly appointed Home Secretary Priti Patel to treat people with dignity.