Environment

"This is the wrong time to stunt a green recovery by making a sudden change to the grants on offer."

“The truth is that this mine is terrible for our fight against climate change, won’t help our steel industry and won’t create secure jobs," said Ed Miliband

"Oaks are a keystone species, critical to the support and survival of entire ecosystems. A single Oak can provide food, shelter, and habitat for thousands of species of birds, insects, and animals."

"He is in tears. To remove what he’s worked his life to nurture is tantamount to bio-diversity and flora murder.”

"Cramming animals together on overcrowded, faeces-ridden factory farms also creates breeding grounds for deadly pathogens like the novel coronavirus and bird flu – an outbreak of which the UK is currently enduring."

But Jon Sparkes, chief executive of the charity Crisis, warned that ending these policies could force “devastating numbers” of people to the brink.

The total figure was up 37% on the 710 UK deaths reported in the 2019 study.

Findings show that the pandemic affected a system “already cut to the bone from 10 years of austerity” and called on the Government to “stop repackaging old funding commitments as new support and do more to stop this terrible loss of life”.

Two thirds of adults were unaware that bees are at risk, while 60 per cent assumed the gorilla population was thriving.