Environment

A pair of Eurasian beavers have been released in North Yorkshire for a pioneering trial that is the first of its kind in the UK.

A track of pure birdsong is set to soar into the music charts in a bid to highlight how “nature is falling silent”.

A robin is not just for Christmas and it is infact a far more interesting bird to see around Eastertide.

YOU only have to take one look at our country lanes and hedgerows, parks and town centres to know that littered bottles and cans are a huge problem.

On a heat map of Northern England, they are as black as the sky itself.

His characters included a wanted murderer and his plots concerned the kind of shenanigans seldom mentioned in the holiday brochures, so the prospect of doing for Scarborough what he had previously done for Benidorm brought Derren Litten mixed reviews yesterday.

‘COMMS is key. Really, really key because I don’t want things to get messy.’

A long-term strategy to shape the future of the North York Moors has proposed a significant shift away from holiday lets and part-time homes, and towards houses for “principal residents”.

From: Dr Peter Williams, Newbiggin, Malton.

From: Nick Cowern; Sue and Peter Allen; Kim and Frank Colenso; David and Eve Cragg-James; Bishop Graham and Revd Jackie Cray; Sue and Ron Cuthbert; David Davis; Hazel Eastmond; Dr Liz Garthwaite; Monica Gripaeos; Steve Mason; Anne Nightingale; Adrian Palmer; Dagmar and Chris Pickles; Adela and Chris Pickles-Redston; Anne and Mike Rutter; June Smith; Anne Stewart; Dr Simon Sweeneyk; Nelly Trevelyan; Hazel Winter.

Yorkshire students are expected to once again join nationwide protests today as part of an international youth campaign demanding action on climate change.

Stretched limousines may fail strict new emission standards being imposed in Leeds and Wakefield, councillors have been told.

Mark Rand was listening on his car radio exactly 30 years ago, when the news broke. It was the light-hearted “and finally...” item.

ALL over Yorkshire, valuable countryside – much of it designated as Green Belt – is unnecessarily under threat from housebuilding.

From: Graham Lund, Girvan.

THE social media giant Facebook has deleted a post by a group of animal rights extremists who were publicising personal details of game farms around the UK, following direct pressure from the Countryside Alliance.

‘Politically sensitive’ plans to build thousands of homes on Sheffield’s Green Belt have been delayed from publication.

THERESA MAY’S mishandling of Brexit began on day one when leading Leave campaigners like Boris Johnson, David Davis and Liam Fox were recruited to key Cabinet posts – her appeasement of the Tory party’s more ardent Brexiteers came at the expense of cross-party talks which might have brokered a better way forward after the referendum on EU membership left Britain bitterly divided.