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🚨London Aquarium issues major update on its captive penguins without daylight or fresh air 🚨
Aquarium giant Merlin Entertainments has pledged to phase out gentoo penguins at its UK facilities following our high profile campaign.
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- Policing Minister Chris Philp has just asked if Congo is a different country from Rwanda while on BBC's Question Time 👀
00:00 - Pro-Palestine protesters outside Sir Keir Starmer’s speech in Bristol. They’re chanting: “Keir Starmer you can’t hide, you’re supporting genocide.” As well as: “Keir Starmer, shame on you.”
00:00 - Labour's Damien Egan hugs his husband Yossi Felberbaum after being declared MP for Kingswood. 📸PA
- These are just some of the post bags in the Express newsroom filled with letters from angry and scared readers concerned about Rachel Reeves’ decision to axe winter fuel payments.
- Kemi Badenoch has accused Labour MP Kate Osborne of being a “liar” during a fiery clash that erupted over language used to describe transgender children. express.co.uk/news/politics/…
00:00 - A knitting group has paid tribute to Prince Philip with this creative postbox topper in Windsor. It features the Duke of Edinburgh with the Queen, a Land Rover, a carriage, a ship, some medals and the DoE award.
- Celebs have joined forces with more than 80 charities to back the Nature 2030 drive. It's a five-point plan to restore our environment by 2030. It includes making polluters pay for restoration, doubling the wildlife-friendly farming budget and a large-scale green jobs scheme.
- Journalism students, here's a list of useful shorthand outlines for covering the pandemic.
- An absolute pleasure to FINALLY meet river campaigner extraordinaire and totally fabulous human @Feargal_Sharkey! 🎉
- Chalk streams are at risk because of pollution and drought. Only 200 exist globally and 85 per cent of them are found in southern and eastern England. @Feargal_Sharkey writes how water firms are “slowly killing every single one of them” in today's Express.
- Water firms have dumped sewage into shellfish habitats thousands of times, prompting concern about possible food contamination There were 59,079 dumps in shellfish waters in 2020 and 2021, an analysis of Environment Agency data has revealed 👇
- Olly Harrison said he could be forced to sell around a third of the family's farm when he inherits it from his father Thomas, 76, to pay tax bills. The fifth-generation farmer said: “You are stealing our children’s future and destroying the hard work of generations before us."
- A farmer has just asked Environment Secretary Steve Reed how many people will have to take their own lives before he realises the “wretchedness” of Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tax raid at last month’s budget.
