The average first flowering date from 1987 to 2019 was a month earlier than the average first flowering date from 1753 to 1986, according to a team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge.
Global temperatures last year reached 1.99°F above pre-Industrial Revolution levels, said the Met Office. Warming temperatures may explain the abundance of daffodils in January.
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I would rather die a man s death than feel I had failed : British Tommy s stoic letter from the Trenches is tipped to fetch £3,000 at auction
Captain Walter Cornock wrote to his father in June 1917 and said he was driven by an enormous sense of duty
Capt Cornock said people are unnecessarily afraid of death in the stoic letter
He distinguished himself during the Third Battle of Ypres in 1917 and the 1918 German Spring Offensive