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Credit: HQ Salisbury Plain Training Area picture from November 15 A FAWN was mauled in front of a young family yesterday (April 27), after owners lost control of two of their dogs. It is one of three incidents involving an out of control dog in the last two days, all of which have taken place on Salisbury Plain. The attack on the young deer led to it receiving numerous bites and it "almost certainly would have died as a result of its injuries", according to Salisbury Plain authorities. ...

Credit: HQ Salisbury Plain Training Area picture from November 15 A FAWN was mauled in front of a young family yesterday (April 27), after owners lost control of two of their dogs. It is one of three incidents involving an out of control dog in the last two days, all of which have taken place on Salisbury Plain. The attack on the young deer led to it receiving numerous bites and it "almost certainly would have died as a result of its injuries", according to Salisbury Plain authorities. ...

Date Time Tracking nitrate in farm fields Nitrogen is essential for crops, but when it gets into the water supply, it spells big trouble. Scientists are trying to help farmers strike the right balance by measuring their fields. April 28, 2021 – For years it’s been relatively easy to measure pollution from, say, a factory. At a factory, there might be just one pipe of waste to measure. Easy enough. But what about a farm? We might not typically think of farms as sources of pollution. But they...

PLEASANT GROVE — Pleasant Grove will soon have access to fiber internet thanks to a new $18 million deal with UTOPIA Fiber that was recently approved. UTOPIA will equip the city with fiber cables that can later be used by internet service providers to offer the higher speed internet. Within two years, residents and businesses will have access to fiber internet. Construction is slated to begin in May. The Pleasant Grove City Council voted on the deal earlier this month to approve the contract ...

 E-Mail SAN FRANCISCO -- PLOS today announced that it will launch five new peer-reviewed Open Access journals in 2021, all with an emphasis on directly addressing the most pressing health and environmental issues facing society today. Our approach is to co-create - with researchers at the forefront of these issues - inclusive outlets to address ongoing challenges. Even though Open Access is now widely adopted, and Open Science is advancing, current frameworks exclude many voices and communiti...

summary First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, this critical and practical volume challenges policy theory scholars to change the way they produce and communicate research. Leading academics propose eight ways to synthesise and translate state of the art knowledge to equip scholars to communicate their insights with each other and a wider audience. Chapters consider topics such as narratives as tools for influencing policy change, essential habits of successful polic...

The third WHO Fair Pricing Forum on reaching fairer prices of medicines and health tools ended on Thursday 22 April after six days of intense...

COVID-19 (Coronavirus) 22 April 2021 I am very pleased to announce that from Monday 26th April there will be further reopening of the Library. This is to support our students as they finish assignments and prepare for their assessments. From next week, students will have increased access to safe study spaces and counter services will also be available. This schedule will remain in place over the summer, supporting our researchers, through to the beginning of the new academic year. From M...

Date Time A Manifesto for Investigating Impacts of Object Flows on Past Societies: Objectscapes World history is often framed in terms of flows of people and migration: humans coming ‘out of Africa’, the spread of farmers in the Holocene, Phoenician and Greek diasporas over the ancient Mediterranean, the colonization of the world by Europeans from the 16th century onwards. Together with his Exeter colleague Dr. Martin Pitts, Professor Miguel John Versluys wrote a manifesto in which they arg...

As Canada faces its third wave of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, experienced nurses are leaving emergency departments for less demanding positions or retiring early. In the fourth quarter of 2020, job vacancies in Canada’s health care sector hit a record high of 100 300 — up