Numbers of specialist makers are dwindling but one charity plans to save this vital part of our cultural heritage

Some stops are set for works

‘The first time it happened, it gave rise to all complex life,’ scientists say

Network Rail said it will carry out 487 planned projects between Saturday and Monday, with the most significant disruption on Sunday when no trains will run between London Euston and Milton Keynes, or between Glasgow and England

Richmond Council has approved the plans

planned works by Network Rail will force more people on to the roads to join bank holiday getaway, with rail strikes to follow the week after

Jason Williams, known as the cloud gardener, is campaigning for green spaces in new builds and rights for tenants to grow plants

The plan outlined how the country will achieve climate targets as part of wider efforts to reach net zero by 2050

An orangutan has been filmed applying a plant with known pain-relieving properties to a wound in a first for a wild animal. Researchers from the Max planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany, and Universitas Nasional, Indonesia, observed a male Su ...

Environmental campaign groups took joint action against decision to approve carbon budget delivery plan

Letters: John Eatwell takes issue with an editorial that described Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, as preferring ‘deadening consensus’. Plus letters from John Boodle and Mark Williams

Indonesian scientists document extraordinary case of Rakus the Sumatran orangutan, who covers his facial wound with mesh made from chewed leaves

Jurors heard Trump and his former ‘fixer’ hatching a plan to buy Karen McDougal’s silence in 2016

Watch Boris Johnson rubbish concerns about his voter ID law in resurfaced footage. The former prime minister fell foul of legislation he introduced himself on Thursday (2 May) – when he was reportedly turned away from a polling station after failin ...

Sumatran ape applied sap and leaves to open cut after suspected fight with another male, say scientists

Scientists say the findings could help shed light on how the knowledge of wound medications evolved in humans.

Watch the moment a single-engine plane makes an emergency landing on a Long Island beach. The Cessna 152 aircraft was forced to land on Cedar Beach in Mount Sinai at around 7:30pm on Wednesday 1 May after the pilot reported an engine failure. In a vi ...

The Brown Hart Gardens revamp will include significant re-landscaping and expanding the existing café

As the fortunes of the super-rich soar, a proposed annual levy of 2% could offer a corrective – and they will fight it tooth and nail, says the Guardian’s economics editor Larry Elliott

Experts say only ‘handful of plants’ operating with the dirtiest fuel will likely survive, and only Trump and lawsuits could save them