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© Supplied by Courier artist The day after tomorrow is Earth Day. Part of me thinks that an annual day-long event that embraces all the continents is a remarkable thing. The other part of me thinks that every day should be Earth Day. The theme of Earth Day 2021 is Restore the Earth. What does that mean? Permit me to call your attention to two newspaper stories from the past week, one from a London national and the other one from this very newspaper. © Shutterstock / non c Planet Earth with sunrise in space – elements of this image furnished by NASA. The first story reports the findings of...

Parramatta Park is World Heritage-listed for its various convict-built cottages and other buildings and importance to early Australian settlement history. Old Government House, county home of the first 10 governors of NSW, is Australia's oldest remaining public building and houses a top collection of colonial furniture. 3. … and Australia's oldest intact European building Elizabeth Farm in Rosehill was built in 1793 and is now surrounded by a recreated 1830s garden. John and Elizabeth Macarthur's home played a key role in the early development of NSW. You can wander around the homestead at ...

The grounds of a stately mansion in a beautiful but remote corner of the Scottish Highlands, and a tall, genial young man with a moustache and the tattoo of a fish on his left arm — he’s nicknamed ‘Fish’ for John Fisher — is creeping through the dark. In his hand is a double-bladed dagger, designed for silent killing: a sharp thrust to the throat and the victim slumps dead in a pool of blood. He is a master of close, unarmed combat and fieldcraft — how to stalk an enemy unseen and how to survive in the wild — as well as how to use explosives, a Sten gun and pistol.

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From cheeky chimps to porcupine Houdinis… the wild history of Aberdeen Zoo is revealed 15/12/2020, 5:30 pm It’s not every day you come home and find a chimpanzee sitting in your armchair eating cake and chocolate biscuits after ransacking your larder… but then it’s not everyone who grew up with Aberdeen Zoo in their backyard. The story of Humphrey, the greedy chimp, is just one of many exceptional memories Robert Leslie has of his teenage years when his father, George, was manager of the zoo at Hazlehead Park in the 60s and 70s. Now Rob has penned a new book, Marmosets In Mastrick: A...