For this week’s edition of ‘Nimby Watch’, we’re off to Shropshire, where plans are afoot for new homes near Telford… Where ...

And she had a pop at the country's planning laws - suggesting that the restrictions around protected species such as bats and great-crested newts made ... whose protection can cost a fortune ...

"It's a no-brainer." Farmers stumble upon solution to restore 'zombie' ponds on their land: 'You get a lot of ... bang for your buck' first appeared on The Cool Down.

A small colony of endangered spiders has forced the abandonment of plans to build more than 1,300 new homes in Kent, dealing ...

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 ...

Ministers are being urged to back an innovative plan to grow the newt population while reducing red tape and costs for house builders. The great crested newt is a protected species, but this means ...

The amphibians are Pacific newts and they're a type of salamander that, herpetologically speaking, is awfully cute. Snout to tail, they're about six inches long, a rich reddish brown on top with a ...

If President Trump achieves the great changes he described in those 30 minutes, he will be the most consequential president since Abraham Lincoln. This morning, I read President Thomas Jefferson ...