A ‘humble’ and ‘generous’ father-of-seven who had the honour of meeting Ghandi and Pope Francis has donated money in his will to a charity he supported for over 70 years. Patrick Fleming, 94, from Burnley, who died on January 11, was known fondly remembered by thousands of Burnley residents as a window cleaner. Patrick left £2,000 in his will to the St Vincent de Paul Society (SVP) for which he volunteered since he was a teenager. Throughout his long life, Patrick had the rare distinction to have met both Mahatma Gandhi during his visit to Lancashire cotton mills in 1931, and Pope Francis during a Mass at the Vatican in 2019 when he talked with the pontiff.
A humble and generous man who met Ghandi and Pope Francis leaves amazing legacy
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Renewable advocates bristle at Biden s move to preserve California desert land use plan
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The Trump administration on Wednesday unveiled a substantial rewrite of the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan, a landscape management strategy that balances conservation, renewable energy development and cultural resources across 10.8 million acres of the Southern California desert.
Dropped a week before President Donald Trump leaves office, the move was quickly lambasted by politicians and conservationists, while the renewable industry approached it cautiously, arguing that the plan does need a second look.
Agreed to in 2016, the original plan took eight years to construct and was shaped by more than 16,000 public comments as well as input from dozens of stakeholders including the military, conservation groups, solar companies and state agencies.