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Impact of Brexit on UK economy even worse than critics predicted, says chancellor – UK politics live

Rachel Reeves also highlights austerity and lack of capital spending as key harms to UK economyLabour is spending significantly more on levelling up projects than previous Conservative government, new research suggests.In a New Statesman article, Anoosh Chakelian...

Beasts of the Sea: the tragic story of how the ‘gentle, lovable’ sea cow became the perfect victim

Iida Turpeinen’s novel has been a sensation in her native Finland. On the eve of its UK publication, she talks about her compulsion to tell of the sociable giant’s plightIida Turpeinen is the author of Beasts of the Sea, a Finnish novel tracing the fate of a...

‘The cars just turn them into mush’: can Britain’s toads be saved from traffic and terrible decline?

Since 1985, the country’s toad population has almost halved, with hundreds of thousands killed on the roads each year. But many people are determined to protect them – including 274 dedicated patrol groupsIt’s 7.30 on a Friday evening, but I’m not heading to the pub...