• Environment secretary lambasts HS2’s £100m bat shelter

    Environment secretary lambasts HS2’s £100m bat shelter
    Steve Reed says plans for 1km curved structure to protect bats from high-speed railway are ‘batshit crazy’A bat shelter costing more than £100m near HS2 has been described by the environment secretary as “batshit crazy”.
    HS2 Ltd is spending the sum on the protection structure in Buckinghamshire, it emerged last year. All bats are legally protected in the UK.
    The curved structure, which has been described by the HS2 Ltd chair, Sir Jon Thompson, as a “shed&rdquo
  • Hope for Britain’s loneliest bat after second species member discovered

    Hope for Britain’s loneliest bat after second species member discovered
    Greater mouse-eared bat was declared extinct in the UK but ecologists now believe population recovery is possibleFor 21 long winters, Britain’s loneliest bat hibernated alone in a disused railway tunnel in Sussex.The male greater mouse-eared bat (Myotis myotis) was the only known individual of his kind in the country after he was discovered in 2002 – a decade after the rare species was officially declared extinct. Continue reading...
  • Salacious gossip, a photo scandal and death threats have dogged Victorian MP Georgie Purcell – but she won’t stop fighting

    Salacious gossip, a photo scandal and death threats have dogged Victorian MP Georgie Purcell – but she won’t stop fighting
    Exclusive: Her social media presence resonates with younger voters but it comes with a ‘horrific’ dark side that has made her consider quittingGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThere were several points in 2024 when Victorian upper house MP Georgie Purcell thought about quitting politics.There was the moment when the state Labor government, despite launching its own inquiry that recommended outlawing duck hunting, chose to let it continue – undermining

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