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Plan for the lighthouse

Norfolk’s highest point could become home to a timber lighthouse

ByVictoria HeathOct 15, 2026

The 42-metre-high timber lighthouse will feature seven halls and stand roughly 145 metres above the North Sea Norfolk’s highest point…

Sunset view of Lundy island from Hartland beach. Devon, UK.

The British island with just 28 residents that may need to be evacuated

ByVictoria HeathOct 13, 2026
Lundy, located in the Bristol Channel, faces severe strain on its water supplies with reservoir levels falling to just 13 per cent
Migrants arrive at Dungeness after being picked up at sea by RNLI back in 2022.

Why falling Channel crossings are fuelling bigger protests

ByDoug SpechtSep 18, 2026
Small boat arrivals to the UK are down 43 per cent and at their lowest since 2020. Yet hundreds have blockaded two ports in protest against arrivals
Glastonbury Tor from drone summer day

Discovering Britain: Glastonbury Tor

ByRory WalshSep 10, 2026
Rory Walsh explores the Early Jurassic geology, the 'fata morgana' mist illusion and the legends beneath Glastonbury Tor
A cleaner in a corridor

Who runs Britain? Inside the outsourcing of the British state

ByMark RoweSep 9, 2026
Across the UK, public services are increasingly delivered by private companies working behind the scenes. Critics say outsourcing has not only produced failures and scandals, but changed the relationship between citizen and state
Industrial waste flowing into a waterway

The whistleblower who says England’s pollution watchdog buried the evidence

ByGeographical StaffSep 3, 2026
A former Environment Agency insider claims England's pollution watchdog has spent years obstructing investigations and burying evidence
Electric car factory in China

Why Chinese cars such as the Jaecoo 7 are booming in the UK

ByAndrew BrooksAug 13, 2026
The Jaecoo 7’s UK success reveals a striking reversal: Chinese car brands are no longer catching up with Europe – they’re selling aspiration back to it
England’s largest private landscape restoration project announced

England’s largest private landscape restoration project announced

ByBryony CottamJul 21, 2026
RESTORE has purchased the heavily degraded Emblehope Estate from the Royal Kennel Club to launch its landmark landscape restoration project
Heatwave in UK

Is it too hot for the UK?

ByVictoria HeathJul 8, 2026

From freezers failing in supermarkets to railway tracks buckling under the heat, Britain’s infrastructure is struggling to cope with back-to-back…

Digital thermometer in London

UK ministers urged to set out extreme heat plan & maximum workplace temperatures amid heatwave

ByVictoria HeathJun 23, 2026
As temperatures soar above 35C in latest UK heatwave, Greenpeace are calling for the Government to make sizeable changes to extreme heat plans
UK houses in a row

Millions of UK homes under threat of sinking due to climate change, study finds

ByVictoria HeathJun 11, 2026

London, Essex and Kent are hotspots more vulnerable to hotter, drier weather, which makes the ground shrink and drags house…

Green energy fossil fuel concept

The new fault line in British politics

ByDoug SpechtMay 20, 2026
England's green transition is becoming a postcode lottery between Green urban centres and Reform-controlled councils
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