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• Fracking: second tremor in 24 hours recorded in Blackpool

  27-10-2018 18:30 via theguardian.com
  Tremor at Cuadrilla site in Little Plumpton is 18th since fracking restarted 12 days agoA second tremor in a 24-hour period has been recorded at the UK’s only active fracking site near Blackpool.Cuadrilla was forced to halt operations for 18 hours on Friday after a 0.8-magnitude tremor. Fracking restarted on Saturday morning before a second tremor was detected. Continue reading...
  
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• Air pollution is the ‘new tobacco’, warns WHO head

  27-10-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: Simple act of breathing is killing 7 million people a year and harming billions more, but ‘a smog of complacency pervades the planet’, says Dr Tedros Adhanom• Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: Air pollution is the new tobacco. Time to tackle this epidemicAir pollution is the “new tobacco”, the head of the World Health Organization has warned, saying the simple act of breathing is killing 7 million people a year and harming billions more.Over 90% of the world&
  
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• Country diary: this flailed landscape still has stories to tell

  27-10-2018 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Brigstock, Northamptonshire: Hedges have been brutally cut back but memories of ancient oaks live onDespite yet more unseasonably warm weather, autumn has firmly arrived in Northamptonshire, with the ash trees turning yellow and assorted leaves starting to drift. In the grounds of Fermyn Woods Hall – an impressive manor with gothic limestone facades, mullion windows and roofs of locally quarried Collyweston slate – stand a handful of grand poplars. Naked now of their own leaves, they
  
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• Oxford-Cambridge Arc: Row over central England mega-plan

  27-10-2018 02:02 via bbc.co.uk
  The transport secretary says the government will back major development on the Oxford-Cambridge arc.
  
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