Nina Dobrev models striped cardigan and Gucci belt as she takes dog Maverick for a sunlit walk

Nina Dobrev models striped cardigan and Gucci belt as she takes dog Maverick for a sunlit walk By Sameer Suri For Dailymail.com Published: 05:17 BST, 12 April 2020 | Updated: 05:19 BST, 12 April 2020 Nina Dobrev was seen catching a breath of fresh air this weekend as she stepped out for a Los Angeles … Read more

ANDREW PIERCE: For a karate black belt, Dominic Raab is wooden – but Boris Johnson can trust him

The whispering campaign had started even before Dominic Raab chaired his first video-conference with the coronavirus war Cabinet on Tuesday.  The Oxford and Cambridge educated Foreign Secretary, a high flying lawyer before moving into politics, is one of the cleverest men on the Tory benches.  And as First Secretary of State he is the highest-ranking Cabinet … Read more

National Trust plans to turn acres of idyllic Green Belt countryside into sprawling car park

Protesters are locked in a furious row with the National Trust over plans to turn acres of idyllic Green Belt countryside into a sprawling car park for a moated manor house. Ightham Mote, near Sevenoaks, already has 232 parking spaces but the conservation charity wants to double capacity by moving the car park to a nearby area … Read more

The Sun’s light will be SUPERCHARGED when it dies and destroy the asteroid belt, study finds

When our Sun dies it will take the Solar System’s asteroid belt with it. A new study suggests that when a star’s life ends, its luminosity increases ten-thousand-fold – which is strong enough to obliterate the asteroid belt into small dust particles. Researchers believe this event will occur ‘quickly and violently’ with all but the … Read more

Critical rainfall belt ‘at risk of shrinking due to global warming’ 

Billions of people could be at risk from droughts, as global warming threatens to shrink a tropical belt providing critical summer rain, warns a new study. Researchers say droughts in Central America result from the contracting of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), a critical rainfall belt near the equator.  An international team of scientists looked … Read more

What’s been built on the green belt near you? How to check

Talk to people about the green belt and many will lament the loss of England’s green and pleasant land disappearing under ugly new build housing developments. That, or they’ll explain to you just how these areas are single-handedly causing all the country’s housing woes by preventing new homes from being built.  But new government figures now … Read more