Eastern Washington wildfire forces evacuations and destroys homes High winds drove a wildfire into an eastern Washington neighborhood, forcing the evacuation of about 1,500 people The Independent UK · Jun 17
Lyric essays are an antitoxin for a poisoned world In Apples and Oranges: Adventures in Poetics, Stuart Cooke concedes that his ideas “talk to one another, but how they do this isn’t clear. I can’t shake the idea that each of them makes sense only in relation to one person”. The Conversation · Jun 15
‘It burns wild and free up there’: Canada fires force US crews to shift strategy Different strategies in fighting wildfires have prompted new questions about best practices in the face of a global challenge The Guardian - US · Jun 29, 2023
Exhausted crews battle Canadian wildfires as experts issue climate warning Global heating and human changes to the landscape have invited more destructive fires, making fire season worse The Guardian - US · Jun 10, 2023
Racist 'punched, kicked and stamped' homeless man to death because he was Polish Grant Richard Harding was handed a life sentence for the brutal murder of Robert Jadecki, who was killed in a racially motivated and unprovoked attack while he slept on the street Daily Mirror · Dec 17, 2022
"It's like watching a child" - Wife of Alzheimer's patient in desperate plea as Brexit set to delay new drug The drug, Lecanemab, was hailed as a new wonder pill which can slow down Alzheimer’s - but it could take several years for approval in the UK, now we're out of the EU. Daily Record · Dec 8, 2022
Wow! Astronomers have an intriguing hypothesis for a decades-old extraterrestrial mystery The "Wow!" signal is still an enigma, 45 years after its detection, but at least one possibility so far can’t be ruled out. Inverse · Sep 15, 2022
Dim-witted Scots car thieves realise they've been caught on camera in home CCTV clip It's only on leaving the house that the burglars realise they've been captured by a Ring video doorbell. Daily Record · Aug 9, 2022
Landlord turns holiday homes into long-term lets because he 'can't face young people' Robert Gray stands to lose three quarters of his rental income once he converts all three of the cottage he owns in Portscatho on the Roseland Peninsula in Cornwall Daily Mirror · May 18, 2022