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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/be44/live/3aea5d10-d2d9-11f1-b677-b762d2f83f6e.jpg”] Jim Boaden The rare blue-tailed damselfly on the newly created wetlands alongside the River Ash An endangered damselfly has been spotted in wetlands created by an “ambitious” project that restored a stretch of a rare chalk river. The scare blue-tailed damselfly, one of the world’s earliest flying insect species, was recorded alongside…

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/52bf/live/c3b77ec0-d3b5-11f1-a340-478c8f3b9e55.jpg”] Lisa Clewes Airbnb host Lisa says her Welsh holiday let was left ‘a complete mess’ by a group of guests When Lisa Clewes returned to her Welsh holiday let after a group of guests checked out, she was horrified by the mess. Just days earlier, she had met the group in person…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/ef77/live/2c7e9f50-d5ec-11f1-bfdd-73f39e6db31d.jpg”] Supplied When Ruchira Ranasingha left Sri Lanka almost a decade ago, she could never have imagined she would end up stranded on a tiny archipelago in the South Pacific. The 50-year-old has now been stuck in the Cook Islands for three years. She tells the BBC she is desperate to go back…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/98d2/live/7c6766b0-d613-11f1-90fb-b3468681b3ba.jpg”] PA King Charles III is to speak with “unflinching honesty” and “sincere sorrow” on the lasting pain of the transatlantic slave trade, during the final leg of his Caribbean tour in Antigua, Buckingham Palace has said. The King will address Commonwealth leaders on Tuesday in a speech which will touch on the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/3bc3/live/07a4ce50-d37d-11f1-bf63-739fb2907d03.jpg”] Getty Images Oil beetle is a general group name for beetles in the family A rare species of beetle has been found in Pembrokeshire after not being seen in Wales for 60 years. The Short-Necked Oil Beetle is dependent on solitary bees for its lifecycle and needs a particular habitat to survive,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/7499/live/ba968590-d4b2-11f1-88a4-835788f4f80e.jpg”] BBC/Studio Lambert/Paul Chappells This year’s Celebrity Traitors series saw 21 contestants slowly cut down to a final six Spoiler warning: This story reveals details of The Celebrity Traitors final The winners of Celebrity Traitors have said they are relieved that they no longer need to keep the biggest secret in British TV,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/2e52/live/ccbb9490-d53e-11f1-93de-81de9e959fac.jpg”] Bloomberg via Getty Images Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, says it has covered 90% of the $6.3bn (£4.7bn) assets stolen in a hack on Thursday. The remaining 10% may take longer to source in the required amounts, the company added. Binance has consistently pledged to cover 100% of the losses from…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/073a/live/dce98ad0-d493-11f1-9a20-f717db279e3e.jpg”] Marine Stewardship Council Tom Lambourn, right, received the Marine Stewardship Council UK award A skipper who champions sustainable Cornish sardines has been named Fishing Hero of the Year at a national awards ceremony. Tom Lambourn, from Newlyn, Cornwall, received the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) UK award at a gala dinner at London’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/edb0/live/55b5ceb0-d534-11f1-b64c-03717a6e5b71.jpg”] Abiy Ahmed The training comes as Ethiopia faces continued fighting in parts of the northern Tigray region Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has put his cabinet ministers and other senior government officials through military training, saying armed forces discipline can help build stronger leaders and advance the country’s development. Photos shared by…