Extreme heat is now one of the defining public health challenges of a warming world, explains Prof IAN WILLIAMS
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Are secret US living weapons alive in our countryside?
PETER FROST discovers the US’s dirty tricks brigade may even be affecting your country walks
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Kate Clark pays tribute to Ricardo, whose life spanned the hopes of Allende’s Chile, the horrors of military dictatorship and decades of campaigning for justice in exile
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Burnham’s Makerfield triumph offers the party the opportunity to reconnect with working people, but only if it rejects business as usual, says CAROL MOCHAN MSP
KIERA MARSHALL says there is a gulf between the privileged circles in which most politicians move and the lives of working-class youth in left-behind estates – and as a newly elected Senedd member she’s determined to do something about it
IN MY quarter of a century writing for and editing Britain’s biggest-circulation outdoor magazine, I became very familiar with Lyme disease.
Once a year, in spring, just as the bracken started to uncurl its most beautiful fiddleheads, I would remind our half a million readers about the dangers of this nasty, sometimes fatal, tick-spread disease.
Over those 25 years the incidence of Lyme disease seemed to get bigger every year but nobody knew why or even if this was because people like me were simply making country walkers more aware of the risks and symptoms.
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