Campaigners are urging university bosses to ditch plans for 2,000 homes on rural land and instead create a “biopark”.

Natural England announced the creation of the North Kent Woods and Downs national nature reserve to boost nature and tourism.

Some cities will reach up to 26C in this mini heatwave - which normally sees unseasonably hot temperatures for a prolonged ...

A map of the North Kent Woods and Downs national nature reserve (National Trust/PA) “This new reserve, with its hundreds of ancient trees set amid extensive chalk grasslands, lays the ...