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UK beaver rewilding row: Reform council backs river releases to fight flooding despite party opposition

Leicestershire's Reform UK-led council has defied its party's national stance by approving beaver releases to combat flooding. This move, supported by local councillors, highlights an internal party division on rewilding. Beavers, natural engineers, are recognized for their flood mitigation and habitat restoration benefits, a stark contrast to Reform's broader opposition…

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Reform UK council backs release of beavers amid party row over rewilding

Councillors in Leicestershire support move in efforts to reduce flooding as Reform faces divisions on nature policy

The Guardian - UK

King’s environmental views will never face a more obdurate listener than Trump

US president has all but declared war on nature but that will not stop Charles quietly pressing his case during state visit

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Nigel Farage’s farming adviser calls for wheat prices to double

Exclusive: critics warn Reform UK use of trade policy would increase food costs amid cost-of-living crisis

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Reform UK enlists Boris Johnson ally to write party nature policies

Exclusive: Ben Goldsmith will work on issues including fishing and green belt preservation to attract green Tories

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Lady Annabel Goldsmith hailed as ‘simply irreplaceable’ after her death aged 91

The trendy Mayfair club Annabel’s was named after the socialite who died peacefully in her sleep on Saturday morning.

Evening Standard

Charity watchdog’s five-year fight for the truth about Aspinall Foundation

The Charity Commission’s decision to send in troubleshooters to the wildlife group puts its controversial boss Damian Aspinall under great pressure. The charity, which hired Boris Johnson’s wife Carrie in 2021, has faced persistent allegations of misusing its funds. Simon Walters explains the long-running saga – and what the Charity…

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Conservationists race to rescue England’s turtle doves from extinction

Hundreds are being released across the country to reverse 98% decline in mating pairs since the 1970s

The Guardian - UK

If you were shocked by my film on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, you haven’t been paying attention

The response to The Settlers has been humbling. But the ongoing displacement and intimidation of Palestinians is more severe than we could capture, says documentary presenter Louis Theroux

The Guardian - UK

Pat Kane: Let's imagine a ‘new wild’ that will always surprise and delight us

The Scottish Rewilding Alliance is deploying Brian Cox this week with aims to make Scotland “the world’s first rewilding nation”.

The National (Scotland)

Jemima Khan Goldsmith: My sons are Muslim, my brothers are tribally Jewish — I am caught between cultures

Arguments with her family about the Israel-Gaza war inspired the film producer to start a more nuanced conversation

Evening Standard

Literary friction in the Cliveden set over Gaza

Historians William Dalrymple and Simon Sebag Montefiore have been politely clashing over the conflict

Evening Standard

Why aren’t there more trees in the Sycamore Gap?

The tragic felling of the tree is making land managers reflect on how this barren landscape should look in future

The Guardian - UK

In brief: The Unbroken Beauty of Rosalind Bone; God Is an Octopus; His Name Is George Floyd – reviews

A bold murder mystery of the Welsh valleys, a moving memoir of grief and rewilding, and a rigorous, historical biography

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Ben Goldsmith: ‘Love of nature carried me after death of my daughter’

Conservative environmentalist tells how he has dedicated his life to the cause since losing Iris, 15

The Guardian - UK

God Is an Octopus by Ben Goldsmith review – the consolations of nature

A conservationist’s search for meaning after his daughter’s sudden death

Evening Standard

Ben Goldsmith says he used hallucinogenic drug to see his dead teenage daughter

The financier Ben Goldsmith has revealed he took a hallucinogenic drug in a bid to see his late daughter following her death.

Daily Mirror

Ben Goldsmith spoke to daughter, 15, through a medium after she died in accident

Iris Annabel Goldsmith, 15, was riding a quad bike on the family's farm in Somerset when disaster struck in July 2019

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Fears over 'watering down' coronation as Charles bans robes - and leaves some uninvited

King Charles has told peers to leave behind their robes and coronets, which date back to the 15th century, and come to his coronation dressed in what amounts to a business suit

Evening Standard

Pen Farthing plans to self-publish a book about his Afghanistan escape

‘Operation Ark... was definitely the right decision’ he said

The Independent UK

Silence of the lambs: Anger as ex Defra adviser says sheep ‘have got to go’ from UK’s hills

Ben Goldsmith said sheep should not be subsidised, tweeting: ‘The sheep have got to go.’

The Independent UK

Call for car control zones across UK to reduce air pollution deaths

Exclusive: Green Tory joins Labour’s Sadiq Khan and medical experts in plea to government

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m shedding tears of rage!’ How the Tories’ ‘war on nature’ outraged everyone from the RSPB to farmers

Liz Truss’s ministers seem determined to rip up environmental protections. But they’re facing resistance from an extraordinary alliance of wildlife charities and green-minded Conservatives

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss shows little sign she is ready to meet big environmental challenges

The new PM has not set out plans for reducing energy waste; instead she has talked of more oil and gas

The Guardian - UK

How will next UK prime minister tackle cost of living and environment crises?

Energy bills are set to top £3,500 a year for the average household, while voices on the right of the Tory party want to bury the ‘green agenda’

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