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A Whale of a Problem Once, there were 101 uses for a dead whale. These days, disposing of 16 tonnes of beached bone and blubber is a major undertaking. Bella Bathurst meets the ‘receivers of wreck,’ whose job it is to give Moby and his friends a dignified ending. Somewhere far away, in the lost corners
of the Natural History Museum, Richard Sabin passes me a jar
of pygmy sperm whale’s eyeballs... |
Cold Comfort Farm: What's happened to British farming? And why are so many farmers giving up and getting out The Croft is not the sort of farm from which urban
dreams are made. It’s lacking in several important scenic
details; the land is flat, it’s surrounded by the suburbs
of Carlisle, and at night the fields are tinted orange by the glow of
the nearby street lights. |
The Hand From precision grips to Gamekeepers’ Thumbs via Black Power salutes and one-handed piano music, award-winning author Bella Bathurst takes us on an extraordinary journey round our own personal power tools. My hands don’t actually belong to me at all. They can’t do. If I hold them away from me and look at them dispassionately, I wonder what on earth can have gone wrong at the original fitting... |
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Book Review: Weeds, by Richard Mabey Richard Mabey's amble through the eerie world of weeds reveals our part in their continuing success. After the German Luftwaffe had laid waste to much of East London during the Blitz, the first living things to return to the bombsites were not people, but weeds. |
London Foraging Is it possible to feed yourself for a week simply with food you find growing wild – in London? Bella Bathurst takes up the urban foraging challenge Foraging is very now. In theory, the woods and hedgerows of Britain are currently stuffed with born-again wild-men and women stripping the landscape of every last nibble... |
Air & Water 200 years ago around our coastline,the great engineers were building lighthouses. Now, they're designing ways to use the power of the sea itself. Do the Stevensons and their peers have anything to teach the new energy pioneers? Sometimes, it isn’t the sea which represents the biggest threat to shipping. Any vessel still under power is often safer out of sight of land than it is close in to the coast... |
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The secret life of libraries They have always had a dusty image – and never more so than now – but libraries are at the heart of our communities. With the axe about to fall, Bella Bathurst reveals just what we're about to lose You can tell a lot about people from the kind of books they steal. Every year, the public library service brings out a new batch of statistics on their most-pilfered novelists – Martina Cole, James Patterson, Jacqueline Wilson, JK Rowling . |
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