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Watch – Couple transformed desert into 47km² of green oases over three decades
They toiled endlessly outdoors, accepting no money but saplings so that he and his wife could plant them in the desert.
Up to a third of Brits are hesitant about getting a coronavirus vaccine
Nearly one-in-ten people told a survey they were unlikely to have the coronavirus vaccine - while 27 per cent said they were unsure about being immunised.
A ‘shame and unnecessary’ to have to sue Government, says terror attack victim’s father
'Not what we want to be doing on the anniversary of our son’s death.'
PM facing rebellion as 55 million people set for tough post-lockdown restrictions
“People want to have five days of fun over Christmas. If they want that wriggle room, they really have to accept stricter restrictions in the run-up to Christmas."
British actors frozen out of Princess Diana biopic – because of Brexit
A new casting notice stipulates that only European passport holders - “NOT British-European” - can audition.
Six bits of bad news you might have missed in Sunak’s spending review
From benefits to Brexit, here's the bad news you missed from Sunak's spending review.
Covid: Hundreds of mink resurface after burial as 15 million culled
The government had announced the cull despite not having the right to order the killing of healthy animals – an embarrassing misstep that caused it to scramble to build political consensus for a new law.
‘Murderous’ English channel a ‘history of death’, report claims
The report – believed to be the first of its kind in English – documents nearly 300 border-related deaths in and around the English Channel since 1999.
The National says BBC’s “economic illiteracy” is “defending Tory austerity”
An economics expert told the newspaper that Laura Kuenssberg was speaking "absolute twaddle".