Monthly Archives: November 2018

  Of all the conservation tasks undertaken by the volunteers , working on the chalk hills to remove scrub and gather grass cuttings appears to be the most popular – probably because there is a bonfire involved! There is now … Continue reading →

On Sunday the Nation commemorated the ending of the First World War in 1918: four years of fighting; ten million soldiers dead in a foreign field, including almost one million from the British Empire. In Britain alone about three million people … Continue reading →

  We often think of ozone as a stratosphere pollutant, where it does a useful job blocking out harmful ultraviolet radiation, but it is harmful to breathe, damages our crops, and is now thought to be behind the collapse in … Continue reading →