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the rise in global temperatures means previously year-round frozen soil is melting faster than thought

Abbie Sellers, 26, opened the shop which she claims can save over 10,000 pieces of plastic being used each week

A shocking new study has discovered that over 14 million people, 4.5 million of them children, and living in poverty. The investigation also discovered that 12% of the total UK population is in “persistent” poverty, having spent all or most of the last four years below the breadline. The statistics, by Social Metrics Commission, have been gathered from a new measure to calculate social disadvantage. The commission includes experts from academia, and from organisations such as the Joseph Rowntree Foundation,...

Economists at the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) say growth will slow to 1.1 per cent this year. The influential business lobby group is also highly concerned of the impact of a no-deal Brexit. Shockingly, this would be the slowest rate of growth since the global financial crisis of 2009. The previous prediction was 1.3 per cent, still a sluggish growth rate for the UK economy. Adam Marshall, the group’s director general, said the UK economy is slowing to a...

The founder of environmental campaign group Blue Planet Society believes social media including Instagram and Facebook is fuelling the problem

Fears have been raised over thick-skinned creatures such as rhinoceroses breaking free from their enclosures in zoos across Norfolk and Suffolk

The majority of Britons have pride in London as a capital city, a YouGov poll on behalf of Centre for London and the Mile End Institute has found.  The polling, commissioned to deepen understanding of how the capital's relations to the rest of the country have changed in recent years, found that: ·      A majority of people living outside of London (56 per cent) say they have pride in London “as the capital city of the United Kingdom”, while just over a...

A young man has sadly died after a shark attack. He was killed at around midday on Saturday off Newcomb Hollow Beach, Massachusetts. It has been reported that he was boogie boarding, when the tragedy occurred. The 26-year-old has been identified as Arther Medici. He is the state's first shark attack fatality in more than 80 years and it is believed the man was attacked by a great white shark. Gregory Skomal, state Division of Marine Fisheries shark researcher, told...

Controversial Katie Hopkins has applied for involuntary solvency after losing a libel case against author Jack Monroe, to avoid bankruptcy. In 2017, she was forced to pay £24,000 libel damages and legal costs to Jack Monroe after she implied that the author had vandalised a war memorial in a tweet during 2015. The BBC has reported that legal costs are allegedly £107,000. On Saturday, Monroe told her followers: "I have been paid in full, but many of her creditors, including...