Government target to clear driving tests backlog will be missed by up to eight months, minister admits

found 2025 › Apr › 23 (Wed) @ 12:20 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Kayla Van Dorsten, from Surrey, made a 400-mile round trip to take her driving test in Cornwall while Emily Doyle made a week-long 1,00-mile round trip to Scotland to take hers.

'These dogs deserve better' - fight to ban greyhound racing in Scotland

found 2025 › Apr › 23 (Wed) @ 10:35 UTC

a story from BBC › BBC News

Scotland ■■

The country's last track is closed indefinitely, but campaigners are determined to outlaw the sport for good.

'These dogs deserve better' - the fight to ban greyhound racing in Scotland

found 2025 › Apr › 23 (Wed) @ 09:55 UTC

a story from BBC › BBC News

Scotland ■■

The country's last track is closed indefinitely, but campaigners are determined to outlaw the sport for good.

The battle to ban greyhound racing in Scotland

found 2025 › Apr › 23 (Wed) @ 09:20 UTC

a story from BBC › BBC News

Scotland ■■

The country's last track is closed indefinitely, but campaigners are determined to outlaw the sport for good.

‘It’s almost like Vaseline’: artists including Antony Gormley swap paint for seaweed ink in art challenge

found 2025 › Apr › 23 (Wed) @ 04:35 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Ocean-inspired artworks created using kelp-based pigment will be sold to raise funds for conservation

Last year in early summer, Alex Glasgow could be seen hauling up a long string of orangey-black se…

The UK supreme court and the definition of a woman – podcast

found 2025 › Apr › 23 (Wed) @ 02:45 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

A ruling on equality law has caused relief, fear – and confusion. Libby Brooks reports

On paper it does not sound like something that would spark nationwide interest. Last week the UK supreme court ga…

R&A ‘would love’ the Open to return to Donald Trump’s Turnberry course

found 2025 › Apr › 22 (Tue) @ 15:50 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Scottish course last hosted event in 2009
R&A says logistics, not politics, are a concern

The R&A would like to see Donald Trump’s Turnberry course in Scotland return as host of the Open but will first…

The extraordinary rise of bakery tourism: ‘People travel from all over the world. It’s mind-blowing!’

found 2025 › Apr › 22 (Tue) @ 09:45 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Beer crawls are out and bakery crawls are in, with people arranging whole days, weekends or even holidays around the search for the perfect loaf or croissant

Just one day into a 225-mile hike across t…

Wellwater by Karen Solie – landscapes in distress captured with raw candour

found 2025 › Apr › 22 (Tue) @ 08:20 UTC

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In this blazingly honest collection, the Canadian poet catalogues humanity’s destructive impact on the natural world

It is human nature to prefer our landscapes neatly framed – walls and wooden fences…

Schoolgirl lay dead on her bedroom floor for nearly 10 hours as 'police and ambulance argued over who should take her body to hospital'

found 2025 › Apr › 22 (Tue) @ 00:35 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Lucy Grant, 17, was already 'blue and quite stiff' by the time paramedics arrived and was declared dead at her family home in Johnstone, Scotland.