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A major United Nations report has revealed the international community has failed to halt environmental decline over the last 10 years. Now, new analysis from the RSPB has revealed the UK’s self-assessment is overly optimistic as high environmental ambitions have not led to real progress being made.

The Global Biodiversity Outlook 5, published yesterday by the United Nations, contained no country-level breakdowns of how the UK has fared. Instead, an RSPB report ‘A Lost Decade for Nature’, has revealed our true performance.

With UK wildlife continuing to decline and vital...

Regional Adoption Agency Adopt South West and independent adoption charity Families for Children, join the coalition of National, Regional and Voluntary adoption agencies across the country, supported by the Department for Education (DfE), to launch a nationwide recruitment campaign to raise awareness of adoption.

In the UK, there are almost 3,000 children that are in need of an adoptive family and the number of adoptions in England has fallen by a third in four years. In response, the new #YouCanAdopt campaign will bust myths around who is eligible to adopt and explore what the...

Computers and various other gadgets have become an intrinsic part of our lives. This can be said without any hesitation because we use these devices to communicate, work, pay our bills, store important documents, order our groceries, etc. Then, after a long and busy day, we finally get back home and use them a bit more. This time, we play our favorite games, watch movies, and listen to music.

We don’t pay too much attention to how much time we spend in front of a computer or smartphone screen. And, to be honest, time goes by so fast when you’re having a good time.

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A major roundabout on the outskirts of Exeter will undergo two weeks of overnight closures while resurfacing work is carried out from next week.

Overnight resurfacing work will be undertaken on the A376 Clyst St Mary roundabout and its approach roads (A376 Sidmouth Road, A376 Exmouth Road, A3052 Honiton Road) from Monday 21 September to Friday 2 October.

Both the roundabout and the approach roads will be closed each evening from 7pm through to 7am the next day. The road will be fully open during the daytime and at weekends.

A signed diversion will be in place...