The great crested newt lives only in Europe. Females, which are larger than males, can reach 7 inches in length, making these stout-bodied amphibians the continent’s largest newts. The great ...

Angela Rayner has said the UK should not be in a situation where “newts are more protected than people” who need housing, ahead of a government shake-up of planning. The deputy Prime Minister ...

A trust is fighting developers who have applied for a pipe to drain a field because they say it poses a danger to great-crested newts ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves says we have gone too far in 'protecting every bat and every newt' and should 'crack on and get the ...

AN appeal to overturn a council decision refusing permission to build nine homes on green belt land had been thrown out. It ...

Neighbours have concerns not only about having another church in the village, but also about the effect on the area's great crested newt population. The newts are a protected species. Sheeran's ...

crumbling castle in the Scottish Borders have been held up by great crested newts. The presence of the protected species in a pond at Cavers Castle, near Hawick, has delayed a decision on a bid to ...

But you would need to look hard to spot the UK’s largest newt because the great crested newt is also the rarest. Amphibians lay eggs in water like this frogspawn. The wriggling tadpoles hatch ...

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A trust is fighting developers who have applied for a pipe to drain a field because they say it poses a danger to great-crested newts. Latimer and Clarion Group has applied to build 70 to 140 ...