BIZARRE: 13 | Mind Blowing Facts

Winners and losers as nature responds to 2024’s mild, wet conditions

The National Trust says 2024 was good for trees, heather and seals but bad for bees, butterflies, bats and natterjack toads.

Evening Standard · Dec 27, 2024

Wildlife faces ‘blurring seasons’ as 2024’s weather brings mixed fortunes

The National Trust’s review of the year’s wildlife and weather sees past drought give way to wet, mild conditions in 2024.

Evening Standard · Dec 27, 2024

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T3 · Dec 24, 2024

Public to see king’s ‘penthouse view’ for first time since 1646 destruction

A new viewing platform will let visitors to Corfe Castle get close to Henry I’s keep, which was built in 1107 but destroyed in the English Civil War.

Evening Standard · Dec 2, 2024

Public to see king’s ‘penthouse view’ for first time in almost 400 years

A new viewing platform will let visitors to Corfe Castle get close to Henry I’s keep

The Independent UK · Dec 2, 2024

Sycamore Gap: Where new life from 49 saplings of the chopped-down tree will spring up across the UK

A tree will be planted in Northumberland in memory of murdered 15-year-old Holly Newton

The Independent UK · Nov 29, 2024

National Trust announces 49 good causes that will receive Sycamore Gap saplings

Seedlings have been grown from the tree beside Hadrian’s Wall which was illegally felled.

The Independent UK · Nov 29, 2024

First grey seal pup of the season born at coastal ex-military site

Orford Ness in Suffolk was used as a military test site during both world wars and into the nuclear age and was sold to the National Trust in 1993.

The Independent UK · Nov 23, 2024

Rescue mission begins after mysterious crayfish deaths in Northumberland

At least 100 white-clawed crayfish, the UK’s only native species, have been found dead since the end of September

The Guardian - UK · Nov 15, 2024

A remarkable feat of 19th-century joinery

Brief letters: George Browne’s fitted kitchen | Regional restaurants | National Dried Milk | Human infestation | Lysistrata revisited

The Guardian - UK · Nov 13, 2024