Category: The National Trust

UK charities urge ministers to stop scapegoating nature for planning failures

Exclusive: RSPB and National Trust among groups saying rhetoric from Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer at odds with public sentimentNature charities with a combined membership of about 8 million people are pressing the prime...

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Beaver releases into wild to be allowed in England for first time in centuries

Exclusive: Government to grant nature groups a licence for release of rodent species after earlier setbacksThe release of beavers into English waterways is to be allowed for the first time in centuries, the Guardian can...

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Prince William to end feudal restrictions on his Duchy of Cornwall estate

The royal has bowed to pressure over residents’ right to buy freeholds on parts of his hereditary landPrince William has agreed to end the last feudal restrictions on land ownership in parts of his hereditary Duchy of...

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‘Don’t dodge your responsibilities,’ Starmer warns English councils that block new homes

PM vows to overrule local authority heads who resist housing revolution amid concerns from wildlife groups and Labour-run administrations• On wokeness, patriotism and change, Kamala Harris’s defeat has lessons for...

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Dorset ‘Stonehenge’ discovered under Thomas Hardy’s home

Enclosure older than Salisbury monument found under late novelist’s garden is given heritage protectionWhen the author Thomas Hardy was writing Tess of the D’Urbervilles in 1891, he chose to set the novel’s...

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Mass planting of marsh violets key to saving rare UK butterfly, says National Trust

Trust aims to boost small pearl-bordered fritillary colonies in Shropshire Hills by planting 20,000 violets this year for their caterpillars A mass planting of marsh violets across England’s Shropshire Hills is to take...

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Wet UK summer brings high hopes for spectacular autumn display

National Trust predicts reversal of last year’s dull October and November, with show starting in ScotlandAfter a disappointing season last year when the wrong sort of weather at the wrong time made the autumnal colours of...

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Nature groups prepared to ‘mobilise’ 20m members over UK climate policy

Organisations including RSPB, National Trust and RSPCA urge prime minister to honour green promisesEnvironmental groups claiming to represent 20 million people will mobilise their members should ministers water down climate...

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