Becks in Paris, Trent initiative, Stones celebrates – Thursday’s sporting social
We look at some of the best examples on social from April 27.
UK Sport|Apr 27, 2023
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Toilet paper and advising public: Archives reveal coronation planners’ concerns
The National Archives highlighted documents relating to coronations of times gone by.
UK News|Apr 26, 2023
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The Repair Shop’s Jay Blades unveils upcycled chairs for Chelsea Flower Show
They will feature in a garden display inspired by a green space perched atop a high-rise London estate.
UK News|Apr 25, 2023
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Plant experts visit the Victorian Walled Garden
LEADING plant experts from the UK were given a rare chance to look around the ambitious gatehouse project at the Victorian walled kitchen garden on Saturday.
News|Apr 17, 2023
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‘Tree against hunger’ flowers for first time at Kew Gardens
The Ensete ventricosum – also known as the Ethiopian banana, the Abyssinian banana, or even the false banana – is a close relative of the banana tree.
UK News|Apr 12, 2023
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Kew Gardens to host exhibitions exploring Islamic culture
All The Flowers Are For Me and Plants Of The Qur’an will open on April 1 at the botanical gardens in London.
UK News|Mar 30, 2023
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Natural history museums join forces to build ‘groundbreaking’ global database
More than 1.1 billion objects are now part of the huge database.
News|Mar 23, 2023
Paid-for attractions lag behind free sites as cost-of-living crisis bites
A tourism leader said people are making ‘tactical decisions about how they spend their leisure pounds’.
UK News|Mar 17, 2023
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More than 40,000 plant species now stored in Kew Gardens’ seed bank
The Royal Botanic Gardens stores over 2.4 billion individual seeds in a bomb and floodproof underground vault in rural West Sussex.
UK News|Mar 10, 2023
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Guernsey did not somehow conjure free money from thin air
YOUR editorial comment ‘Time again for ingenuity and bravery’ (Monday 6 February) needs clarifying. It repeats a myth about Guernsey which has been circulating in the twilight zone of Marxist history for over 60 years. It talks of an ‘ingenious idea... to issue States notes... without leading the island into debt.’ This disregards the primary evidence available in the National Archives in Kew, and subsequent academic publications, notably Richard Hocart’s An Island Assembly (1988).
Readers' Letters|Feb 24, 2023
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Chair of Natural England worries ‘endlessly’ about companies greenwashing
Tony Juniper said there is a ‘long track record’ of businesses focusing more on communication than substantial transformations.
UK News|Feb 17, 2023
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Barclays announces closure of 15 high street branches
It comes days after NatWest said it is closing 23 branches, and over a week since Lloyds Banking Group said it is shutting 40 sites.
UK News|Jan 28, 2023
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Holocaust survivor urges people not to be silent over antisemitism
John Dobai, 89, lived through the Second World War as a child in Hungary, but five of his family members were killed.
UK News|Jan 27, 2023
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Locally-raised Chelsea gold winner links with refugee charity
A GARDEN designer raised in Guernsey will once again present a garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show after winning a gold last year.
News|Jan 10, 2023
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In Pictures: Heatwaves, storms and a big freeze all hit UK in 2022
A stormy start to the year made way for record high temperatures – and then floods and a big freeze.
UK News|Jan 2, 2023
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