GOOD news reported in The Guardian for puffins on the island of Lunday, off the coast of Devon. The paper says that since rats were expunged from the island 15 years ago, the number of puffins has trebled to 21,000 birds, according to a study by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Apparently […]

IT will be interesting to see the response to suggestions, following a four year study by the charity Youth Music, that school music lessons should be overhauled to include grime, electronic music and hip-hop . The Guardian says that the study concluded that too many schools fail to include current musical genres and recommended that […]

The BBC reports on how a group of diners at Hawksmoor Restaurant in Manchester, who had ordered a £260 bottle of red wine, were accidentally given a £4,500 bottle of the same vintage.

BRENT Council in north London is growing a seven-mile long “bee corridor” of wild flowers in an effort to boost the numbers of pollinating insects this summer. The Independent says that project will involve sowing 22 wild flower meadows in the borough’s parks and open spaces. A council spokesperson said: “Bees and other insects are […]

The price of a pint could rise to £10 as the world's barley crops face being decimated by rising temperatures.

A range of 'beasts' were pretty beastly to Brits last year, the Daily Express informs us. Figures released by NHS England show that crocodiles, alligators, poisonous millipedes and crushing snakes all left patients needing treatment in hospitals in 2018. The number of bites requiring hospital care rose from 16,249 patients in 2016 to 17,281 in […]