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By Cumbria Wildlife Trust
Northern Dune Tiger Beetle on dune system at Ainsdale Nature Reserve, Merseyside, UK. May. Photographer: Alex Hyde. The stunning 180-mile Cumbrian coastline is a wonderful place to explore sand dunes and discover the specialist wildlife that can be found amongst these everchanging mountains of sand. Various plants and animals thrive within the varying habitats of the dune system, and Cumbria’s dunes are home to some exceptionally scarce species, such as the natterjack toad, dune helleborine and coralroot orchid. Natterjack toads are extremely rare amphibians and around half of their UK breeding sites are found in Cumbria. A number of characteristics differentiate the natterjack from the common toad.
More than 80,000 people in north and west Cumbria have received two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, figures have revealed. NHS data has shown that, as of May 9, a total of 88,233 people across Carlisle, Allerdale and Copeland were fully vaccinated against the virus, with 34,733 of these in Carlisle, 32,817 in Allerdale, and 20,683 in Copeland. In the north of the county, 39 per cent of those aged 16 and above received both jabs, based on the latest population estimates from the Office for National Statistics. A total of 30,696 people to have received both doses were aged 40 and above – 51 per cent of the age group – with 4,037 people aged between 16 and 39 years old being fully vaccinated.