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• Exasperated Swinney forced to deny plans to ban cat ownership in Scotland

  03-02-2025 18:56
  
  Keir Starmer’s spokesperson also rejects idea of UK ban after online misinformation prompted outrageScotland’s first minister and the UK prime minister’s spokesperson have been forced to deny there are plans to ban cat ownership in Scotland after media interest in feline welfare proposals prompted outrage from pet lovers.The concerns were prompted by media coverage of a report for the Scottish government by the independent Scottish Animal Welfare Commission, which published its
  
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• Exasperated Swinney forced to deny he plans to ban cat ownership in Scotland

  03-02-2025 18:56
  
  Keir Starmer’s spokesperson also rejects idea of UK ban after online misinformation prompted outrageScotland’s first minister and the UK prime minister’s spokesperson have been forced to deny there are plans to ban cat ownership in Scotland after media interest in feline welfare proposals prompted outrage from pet lovers.The concerns were prompted by media coverage of a report for the Scottish government by the independent Scottish Animal Welfare Commission, which published its
  
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• Wild hogs: why a gang of rogue pigs is causing chaos in Norfolk

  03-02-2025 16:20
  
  Villagers are sick of their lawns being ruined – but these rowdy pigs just keep escaping Name: Wild hogs.Age: It’s been going on for months. Continue reading...
  
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• Country diary 1925: The pine marten is a handsome little beast

  03-02-2025 07:00
  9 February 1925: No one who has ever seen it flying along the branches of the trees could wish it ill. It does more good than harmCUMBERLAND: The rabbit-catcher came in with the news that, while at work on the bare fell-side opposite a big planting we call Murder Wood, he had seen a foumart. His terrier had hunted the beast, driven it into a burrow, and then bolted it. Now we had not heard of a foumart, alive or dead, for at least 20 years. When we cross-examined our informant we found that he i
  
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• Country diary: A bird that had existed only in my imagination becomes vividly real | Nic Wilson

  03-02-2025 06:30
  
  Bramfield, Hertfordshire: My long-unanswered prayers to see the elusive hawfinch are finally rewarded in a churchyardWe’ve come to church this morning in search of a fictional bird. On the south side of the graveyard, sunlight paves the lime walk, but offers little warmth for those who choose to linger. It’s not the first time I’ve haunted this churchyard in winter, praying for hawfinches in the yew trees, but so far my only sighting of the UK’s largest finch has been in
  
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• Endangered frogs born at London zoo after rescue mission in Chile

  03-02-2025 01:01
  
  Group of Darwin’s frogs threatened by chytrid fungus thrive in specially built room that mimics their natural habitatDozens of endangered froglets have been born at London zoo after conservationists launched an emergency mission to rescue members of the species from a remote national park in Chile.Researchers rushed to Tantauco Park on the southern tip of Chiloé Island after tests confirmed that the lethal chytrid fungus had reached the nature reserve and threatened to wipe out some
  
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• Change of menu: vegan pioneer turns his focus to animal welfare

  03-02-2025 00:20
  
  Andy Shovel, who worked at McDonald’s and co-founded THIS™, says A Bit Weird aims to ‘disarm people through fun’Andy Shovel’s career to date has been, you might say, a journey. A little over a decade ago he was working on the chicken station in a branch of McDonald’s. He then set up a burger delivery business in west London, which he and a cofounder would go on to sell for seven figures.A celebratory holiday in the Maldives and a period of research later, in 2
  
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