Environment

Children from a school near a popular beauty spot test local water quality over pollution concerns.

The Manx Shark Foundation hopes to learn more about basking sharks often spotted around the island.

Hewing is the ancient art of cutting logs into beams or planks for timber frames.

Species Recovery Trust hopes to reintroduce the New Forest cicadas not seen in UK since the 1990s.

The six-belted clearwing is found by conservationists at Rough Park who hope to spot it elsewhere.

The new assessment was required by the industry regulator, after it found several areas had not been adequately addressed in a previous submission.

Environmental activists say the blaze is a symptom of the country's growing waste crisis.