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Campaigners call for protection and careful tree-planting to help restore the temperate rainforests that once covered swathes of the country Temperate rainforest, which has been decimated over thousands of years, has the potential to be restored across a fifth of Great Britain, a new map reveals. Atlantic temperate rainforest once covered most of the west coasts of Britain and Ireland, thriving in the archipelago’s wet, mild conditions, which support rainforest indicator species such as lichens, mosses and liverworts. Today, it covers less than 1% of land, having been cleared over thousands of years by humans and is only found in…

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Nominations for new prime minister close on Monday; Kemi Badenoch also expected to stand Truss triggers Tory leadership contest – what happens next? Meanwhile, two out of five maternity units in England are providing substandard care to mothers and babies, the NHS watchdog has warned. “The quality of maternity care is not good enough,” the Care Quality Commission (CQC) said in its annual assessment of how health and social care services are performing. Continue reading… ​Nominations for new prime minister close on Monday; Kemi Badenoch also expected to standTruss triggers Tory leadership contest – what happens next?Meanwhile, two out of…

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