Despite the best efforts of scientists eager to study Earth’s sister world, U.S. efforts to send a dedicated spacecraft to Venus have languished. An imminent announcement could decide whether it will be years—or decades—before we go back
Despite the best efforts of scientists eager to study Earth’s sister world, U.S. efforts to send a dedicated spacecraft to Venus languished—until NASA made a surprising announcement
VOLUNTEERS at historic Undercliffe Cemetery have unearthed a memorial to a ‘lost Bradford Pal’ whose story shaped the Battle of the Somme. David Whithorn, president of Bus to Bradford which researches local men in the First World War, writes: “A determined effort by Andy Tyne and the Undercliffe cemetery conservation team have finally discovered the memorial to a lost Bradford Pal, 18/9 Sgt Henry Barnel Greenwood of the 18th West Yorks. (2nd Bradford Pals, son of William and Mary Ann Greenwood, husband of Hilda, of Lidget Green) who died on June 30 1916, the day before both Pals battalions were decimated at Serre on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
Clean air campaigners at the 2018 Tower Hamlets local elections
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A film warning children about air pollution exposes an “environmental crisis” they face growing up next to the A12 Blackwall Tunnel approach.
The film
Time for Change - which is being screened next week - shows how traffic affects air quality. The six-lane dual carriageway running through Poplar and Bromley-by-Bow is one of the most-heavily used traffic routes in London.
The A12 Approach to the Blackwall Tunnel that carries 100,000 vehicles every day
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The tunnel approach carries 100,000 vehicles every day and the fumes are said by medical experts to contribute to health problems.