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What happened when retired physics teacher, Pat Hackett tried to install a heat pump in his 250-year-old home.

<strong>Other lives</strong>: Oxford-based pianist renowned as an accompanist, gifted sight-reader and passionate teacher

The messages have been fairly muddled till now. We all know we’re supposed to be getting off natural gas heating, but there’s been more heat…

IN a difficult year like the one that we have just been through, we can easily get caught up in the idea that when it comes to the climate or biodiversity crisis, there is no hope. But, in fact, there are glimmerings. Where we see hope at its brightest is when we witness actual change, rather than statements of intent, or the survival and return of things thought lost. It’s a golden eagle back in a forest in which none have bred for decades, it’s a flame shell reef surviving in the firt...