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Swampy and the second runway: 20 years since the battle which transformed Manchester Airport They built tunnels and lived in tree houses during a six-month campaign to thwart the £172m project Updated Daniel Hooper, aka Swampy, protesting at plans to build Runway 2 in 1997 (Image: MEN) This time 20 years ago Manchester Airport had just opened its second runway at a cost of £172m, heralding what was trumpeted as a bright new era for aviation and a jobs bonanza fuelled by no-frills budget airli...

In theory, such a bird would also be able to both lay and fertilize eggs.

The final anti-HS2 activist in a network of tunnels in London’s Euston Square Gardens has been removed. The protester known only as “Bradley” was removed from the tunnels and taken away in an ambulance on Friday morning. They were the ninth protester to be removed from the tunnels, which were discovered on January 26. Views of Bradley’s removal from the tunnels was blocked by tarpaulins, which have been hung on fences around the edge of the...

For the past month, Blue Sandford has been holed up in a muddy tunnel 15 ft beneath the ground, resisting eviction by bailiffs. ‘I put the crime in criminal,’ she defiantly wrote on her Instagram page alongside a selfie of herself and her brother Lazer huddled together in an underground chamber below London’s Euston station. On Thursday, the 18-year-old, who is protesting against the HS2 rail link, finally gave herself up, emerging above ground alongside veteran eco-warrior Daniel Hooper,...

UpdatedThu, Feb 25, 2021 at 10:06 am ET Replies(20) It’s not rare to see a pair of Northern cardinals. But what Waterford, Pennsylvania, birder Jamie Hill saw certainly was rare: a bird known as a bilateral gynandromorph, that is one divided right down the middle, half male and half female. (Shutterstock/Bonnie Taylor Barry) GRAND VALLEY, PA — When she saw the beautiful but peculiar-looking bird at her backyard feeder in Grand Valley, Annette Smith thought it was a genetic hybrid. That som...

jcotton@timesobserver.com An incredibly rare bilateral gynandromorph Northern Cardinal — essentially, half-female half-male — was cited over the weekend in the Grand Valley area. A similar bird in Erie was featured in the New York Times and National Geographic back in 2019. Photo by Jamie Hill WARREN, Pa. — An exceedingly rare half-male, half-female Northern Cardinal has been observed in Warren County. Jamie Hill of Waterford said in a Facebook post that he’s been birding for 48 ...

Amazing bilateral gynandromorph northern cardinal documented by retired ornithologist James Hill III.

A Pennsylvania bird watcher had what he calls a once-in-a-lifetime encounter when a Northern cardinal perched in a tree appeared to be both male and female. James R. Hill III has marveled at the feathered animals for 48 years, but on Saturday he saw a one in a million bird with bright red like a male cardinal on one side and brownish white like a female on the other. Hill describes the rare cardinal as a bird divided right down the middle, half male and half female that stood out as pretty unus...

Bailiffs remove HS2 tunnel ringleader from illegal crawlspace under Euston after entering underground chamber to take out all his belongings and food Dr Larch Maxey announced he was leaving tunnel this morning and was seen in another video above ground  The lecturer said: I have been evicted - Ive met my match, theyve come for me and rinsed me completely  His exit this morning leaves just two of the original protesters remaining underground, Swampy and Blue  

The protesters, who have been underground for more than three weeks, are trying to stop HS2s plans to replace the green space outside Euston station in central London with a temporary taxi rank.