These individuals have since been released from police custody pending further inquiries, it added. Posting on Facebook yesterday evening, local resident Helen Morris Ruffle wrote: “ So day 3 of constant base booming through the walls.... “ I feel sorry for the farmers whose land they’ve damaged to get to the site and for all the local wildlife.... Some locals are organising a clean up tomorrow....

remote moorland between Eggleston and Stanhope. Police officers, mountain rescue teams, sniffer dogs

ephemera and artifacts that the archive has been collecting and placing at Howard University’s Moorland

limited to a day, possibly two, but now it’s so dry and the moorland isn’t managed how it used to be

A Summary of the Evidence. The first major study of all impacts of driven grouse shooting, carried out by Prof Simon Denny and Dr Tracey Latham-Green from the University of Northampton, found it created a “ mosaic of income-generating activities that sustain upland communities ”.... This included employment on shoots, income from high-end tourism including for rural pubs and hotels, and infrastructure benefits.... Alongside the social and economic impacts, management of the estates created an

Grouse shooting is set to be banned on the historic moors that inspired the writings of the Bront？... It must take it.“ The world is fast moving in a direction where restoring land for nature, carbon capture and people is at the forefront of solving climate change and biodiversity loss.... and her sisters, Charlotte and Anne, lived and wrote their novels. There are references to the local shooting of birds throughout the sisters’ novels, including Anne Bront？...

Anti-shooting activists are claiming to “ work for the police ” in order to disrupt shoots and abuse staff, gamekeepers have alleged. The groups are increasingly using social media to publish private details of gamekeepers and their homes under the guise of looking out for rural crime. Activists are also introducing themselves to people they encounter in upland areas as working on the police’s behalf, sometimes while carrying out criminal damage to shooting estates, the National Gamekeepers Orga

A man traveling on the busy road reportedly saw the large creature, claiming it was “ waiting to pounce on something ” in his terrifying recount. The sighting, occurring where the M6 meets the M56 and A50, was reported to Puma Watch by the motorist called Phil. Puma Watch is an organisation that has been keeping a close eye out for the elusive creatures and raises awareness of all suspected sightings of big cats. Phil claimed he caught sight of the fearsome cat at around 4pm BST on Saturday. The

Prisons are to go green as the Government’s net-zero plans see nearly 20jails get solar panels to generate their own electricity. Nineteen prisons-a sixth of the total estate-are to get a green makeover with new solar power panels that will provide a fifth of their electricity. The Ministry of Justice( MoJ) is installing 16, 000 solar panels on prisonbuildings, which will save ￡800, 000 a year and cut more than 1, 300 tonnes of carbon.It is part of a major revamp of the prison estate that will a

StarPicks Fostering talented minds for sustainable city innovation According to the ombudsman's office, 17 of Colombia's 32 provinces do not have an official fire department.... Active fires were reported in Tuparro national park in Colombia's Vichada province, and in the mountains bordering the east of capital Bogota, among other places.... Earlier this week, the environment ministry warned that close to 1, 000 municipalities throughout the country were on alert due to the risk of fires, more