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Huge boost for rarest butterfly

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Huge boost for rarest butterfly: The beloved ‘large blue’ was declared extinct in 1979, but now is back in Britain thanks to successful breeding campaign Large blue butterfly introduced in Gloucestershire last August after five years Conservationists used eggs from Sweden, where the species has survived Some 1,100 larvae released on the Minchinhampton and Rodborough … Read more

Huge boost for rarest butterfly

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Huge boost for rarest butterfly: The beloved ‘large blue’ was declared extinct in 1979, but now is back in Britain thanks to successful breeding campaign Large blue butterfly introduced in Gloucestershire last August after five years Conservationists used eggs from Sweden, where the species has survived Some 1,100 larvae released on the Minchinhampton and Rodborough … Read more

Did London’s lockdown work? Capital has the same level of coronavirus antibodies as Stockholm

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Covid-19 has infected the same number of people in London and Stockholm, despite the Swedish capital controversially choosing not to lock down, scientists say. Antibody testing – which reveal if someone has previously been infected – show around one in six people in both cities caught the virus during the crisis. Public Health England surveillance … Read more

Stockholm blow for hopes that herd immunity will combat the coronavirus

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Herd immunity does not work as a Covid strategy, research suggests. Sweden, which never imposed a national lockdown, claimed herd immunity would protect its population. This tactic would have meant so many people contracting and becoming resistant to Covid that it would no longer spread. But analysis by University College London suggests the nation is … Read more

Stockholm blow for hopes that herd immunity will combat the coronavirus

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Herd immunity does not work as a Covid strategy, research suggests. Sweden, which never imposed a national lockdown, claimed herd immunity would protect its population. This tactic would have meant so many people contracting and becoming resistant to Covid that it would no longer spread. But analysis by University College London suggests the nation is … Read more

Social distancing may be GOOD for the economy as it makes people more comfortable to go out

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Social distancing measures to control the spread of coronavirus ‘make people feel safer spending money and working’ which actually helps the economy, study finds.  Researchers from the University of Copenhagen compared drops in economic activity due to Covid-19 reduction measures in Sweden and Denmark.  The two Scandinavian countries were similarly exposed to the deadly virus … Read more

New £19 billion ‘e-highway’ network with overhead cables for electric lorries

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An electric road system which could see a network of overhead charging cables along the UK’s major road network ‘would almost completely decarbonise UK road freight’, a report has found. The plan, which would cost an estimated £19.3billion, would see National Grid powered catenary cables charge 65 per cent of the nation’s lorries using an extendable rig … Read more