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Brazen crooks dump 28ft-long CARAVAN just yards from recycling centre

Fly-tip away home! Brazen crooks dump 28ft-long CARAVAN crammed with rubbish by roadside… just yards from recycling centre The motor home, packed full of wardrobes and pushchairs, was abandoned on the A40 near Beaconsfield Rubbish, bed frames and discarded numbers are piling out of the smashed windows as residents complain An estimated 20,000 fly-tipping incidents […]

Dancers from the deep sea to shine on UN Climate Week

NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – A little-known but crucial agent of carbon removal from the atmosphere – the siphonophore, which lives in what is known as the twilight zone of the sea – will be highlighted during UN Climate Week in a video projection from a Danish arts collective. The siphonophore is a bizarrely beautiful creature. […]

Aurora reverses itself on pot hospitality measure; final vote soon

Aurora appeared to extinguish the idea this week of being the among the first cities in Colorado to allow people to light up a joint in smoking lounges, tasting rooms and rolling weed buses, with the City Council narrowly rejecting new pot hospitality rules it had embraced just three weeks earlier. The measure went down […]

‘Disrespectful’ bloke brings Xbox into delivery room as girlfriend gives birth

When a couple have a baby together, the moment of birth is usually a deeply intimate moment. With the possible exception of the moment of conception it’s probably the most intimate moment in a couple’s life. But one mum found that her bloke’s attention was divided as she struggled through labour. Her fella had packed […]

Top US officer feared Trump could order China strike

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fearful of Donald Trump's actions in his final weeks as president, the United States' top military officer twice assured his Chinese counterpart that the two nations would not go to war, according to a forthcoming book. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley told Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s […]