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There’s no sign of any let up, said Cornwall Live. Official figures show that house prices across the UK are rising at their fastest pace since the lead up to the financial crisis in August 2007 – up 10.2% in the year to March. But in Cornwall they’ve been rocketing. The average price increase in the county “is more than 50% higher than the national upturn and nearly five times that of parts of the UK”.
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The hard figures chime with anecdotal reports that rural areas have seen “an influx of those fleeing cities”, as people reassess their priorities amid hopes that the freedom to work from home will become a permanent legacy of the pandemic. One of the original explanations for the boom across the country was the drive to take advantage of government incentives, such as the stamp duty holiday, said Kalyeena Makortoff in The Guardian.
Top story: wildlife could hold key to saving habitats Morning everyone. I’m Martin Farrer and these are today’s top stories. Species such as elephants and wolves should be reintroduced to help restore ecologies ravaged by human development, scientists say, after research revealed that only 3% of the world’s land habitats remain properly intact. The remaining fragments of wilderness where flora and fauna remain unspoiled are mainly in parts of.
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