• Polite men do still walk among us | Brief letters

    Making room on the street | Trump’s rash | Cognitive shuffling | Belling bed-warmers | Neighbours’ dogRegarding your letters on men pushing women in the street (20 February), I have just returned from an hour’s walk, and I’m pleased to say that, on two separate occasions, men walking towards me voluntarily changed their trajectory to let me past. I just kept walking in a straight line. Maybe they read the Guardian, or maybe men in Bradford are considerate.
    Jane Thewl
  • Wild-born birds recruited to teach critically endangered regent honeyeaters their lost songs

    Researchers hope restoring the original song will improve breeding prospects for birds released into the wildGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastScientists have rescued the lost song of the critically endangered regent honeyeater – one of Australia’s rarest birds.Regent honeyeaters were once seen in vast flocks across south-eastern Australia, with a distribution that ranged from Queensland to Kangaroo Island in South Australia. Continue reading...

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