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Scotland is set to lose its longest-lasting patch of snow this weekend for the first time in over a decade -- an event which has happened only six times in the past 300 years. The patch at Garbh Choire Mor on Braeriach in the Cairngorms, nicknamed the Sphinx, may be gone as soon as this weekend. Iain Cameron, 44, monitors snow patches across Britain as a hobby and his findings are published by the Royal Meteorological Society. The last snow...

Britain's biggest fatberg weighing a whopping 130-tonnes is to be transformed into eco-friendly fuel - powering 350 double-decker buses for a entire day. The 250 metre-long congealed mass of fat, oil, gress wet wipes and nappies has been slowly been plugging Victorian sewers for years. Britain's biggest fatberg, which is more than twice the length of two football pitches, took an eight-strong crew using high-powered jet hoses to break up and dislodge the mass. The team has now transferred the...

Another day, another disaster for Brexit...and all who sail in her towards the giant fatberg that is Boris Johnson’s ego.  The Brexit department head Oliver Robbins has left his role, which has thrown the Government's plans into further disarray after Boris Johnson was reprimanded, over the weekend, for repeating the false claims of the £350m pledge for the NHS if the UK left the EU. - The Foreign Secretary's lies even called out by the UK Statistics Authority. Robbins was, until very...

Ryanair has been hit with fresh controversy this week after it announced on Saturday that it is to cancel 40-50 flights every day for the next six weeks after it "messed up" the planning of pilot holidays. The cancellations could affect up to 400,000 passengers amid speculation that pilots are deserting the airline to work elsewhere. A Norwegian spokesperson has claimed 140 pilots have joined the airline from Ryanair this year, with pilot recruitment underway for more pilots in a new...

Ever wondered how much of an impact veganism really has on the environment? A leading vegan charity calculated the total savings by the 10,000 people who ate vegan for a week after signing up to its seven-day challenge, and the results are astonishing. Participants in The Vegan Society’s environmental campaign Plate Up for the Planet included Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas MP and collectively saved 147,000 kg CO2e, equivalent to the carbon footprint of flying to the moon and back....

Threat to good manufacturing jobs in Belfast risks ‘domino effect’ with thousands of jobs at stake, union warns GMB, the union for aerospace workers, has called for the Government to intervene to protect Bombardier jobs in Northern Ireland. The union's call comes on the day Theresa May is expected the discuss the Bombadier trade dispute with Canadian leader Justin Trudeau. Bombadier, a Canadian company and Northern Ireland's biggest manufacturing employer, announced another 95 redundancies at its Northern Ireland operations on...

Cheating on levels of pollutants pumped out by dirty diesels has cost an extra 210 early deaths in the UK, a new study found. Dieselgate where major manufacturers cooked the figures on how clean their cars were doubled the number of premature deaths than if their emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) complied with official figures. If the engines of Britain's fleet of diesels had performed as they did in emission tests, nitric oxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) would have...

A picture of a pair of flies in the throes of love has won an international photography competition. The snap, taken by Irish photographer Larry Doherty scooped the top prize in the Society of International Nature and Wildlife Photographers' Spirit of Nature competition. Highly commended in the Spirit of Nature Photo competition. Labyrinth spider entrance taken by Larry Doherty from Ireland. Other runners up included pics of diving kingfishers, a polar bear on the ice a colourful portrait of a...

Terror police have recovered '15 firearms and a bomb' from a house raided in connection with the Parsons Green attack, neighbours claim. An evacuated Cavendish Road resident said a police officer informed them of the terrifying find while they were moved to nearby Staines Rugby Club on Saturday night. A mum, who identified herself as Carrie and lives on the evacuated road, said: ''I was speaking to a police officer and asking him what was going on and how long...