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• Reeves’s Heathrow third runway report was commissioned by London airport

  01-02-2025 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The chancellor is under fire after a study cited as evidence for expanding the terminal to boost the UK’s economic growth was ordered by Heathrow itselfRachel Reeves was facing criticism on Saturday night as it was confirmed that a report she cited as evidence that a third ­runway at Heathrow would boost the UK economy was commissioned by the airport itself.Experts and green groups also challenged Reeves’s view that advances in the production of ­sustainable aviation fuel (SA
  
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• Peace, permanence and affordable prices: six ways to solve Britain’s housing crisis

  01-02-2025 19:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Taking anxiety off the market to create a better society is not easy – but it can be done, says our architecture criticImagine a country where everyone could live securely in a decent home, one with room enough for your ordinary needs, that would also be a haven for your dreams and an expression of who you are. Which offers peace and privacy yet is part of a neighbourhood, with access to transport, schools, health, contact with nature, places of work, shops, sport and entertainment. Where
  
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• ‘It’s incredible, the place just swarms with birdlife’: inside England’s biggest bird sanctuary

  01-02-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  The reserve in Geltsdale in the north Pennines has been expanded by a third after RSPB buys land for £4mIt covers more than 50 square kilometres of blanket bog, heath, meadows and woodland and rises from a valley floor to the 640m summit of Cold Fell in the north Pennines. This is RSPB Geltsdale, and it will now be the organisation’s largest English bird sanctuary when the society announces this week that it has bought land that expands the existing reserve by a third.“This is
  
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• ‘This is sacred land’: an off-grid Wales community battles to keep their home

  01-02-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Legal action has begun to remove the tenants after the 80-acre site was sold to be turned into a healing retreatLunch around the huge sycamore and oak table in the farmhouse kitchen of the off-grid Brithdir Mawr community in the Preseli mountains of west Wales is a warm, gentle affair.Members of the housing co-operative share soup made from leeks and potatoes grown in the gardens, served with crumbly goat’s cheese from its own herd, all washed down with mugs of mountain spring water. Conti
  
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• Campaigners hail ‘important victory’ in protection of England’s national parks

  01-02-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Minister says there was error when Manningtree station car park extension was approved under last governmentCampaigners have celebrated an “important victory” in a closely watched case that will determine whether the government will enforce new legislation aimed at protecting national parks and landscapes in England.Dedham Vale is a designated “national landscape” on the border of Essex and Suffolk, home to increasingly rare species including hazel dormice and hedgehogs.
  
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• Labour warned it risks losing support for net zero if costs not spread fairly

  01-02-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Chief climate adviser calls on Starmer to make ‘strong, confident’ case for green UK that public can buy intoEnsuring that the costs of decarbonisation are shared fairly across society must be a top priority for ministers or they risk losing public support for net zero, the UK’s chief climate adviser has warned.Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves should be making a “strong, confident” case for decarbonisation as an engine of economic growth, according to Emma
  
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• Could the UK actually get colder with global warming?

  01-02-2025 01:45 via bbc.com
  
  Some scientists fear the risk of a collapse to warm Atlantic currents has not been taken seriously.
  
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