The battle against the deadly ash dieback disease has received an important boost after scientists unscrambled the genetic blueprint of a tree with an extremely rare resistance to the killer fungus.
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The battle against the deadly ash dieback disease has received an important boost after scientists unscrambled the genetic blueprint of a tree with an extremely rare resistance to the killer fungus.
Monday 20 May 2013
'It was the appellant's obligation to understand the conditions of bail and ensure they were adhered to'
Sunday 19 May 2013
'The Cobra' is a friend of the Dane but is spitting mad after Groves and Cleverly helped him out
Friday 08 March 2013
It has been voted the world's best restaurant three years in a row, but is unlikely to be be winning any hygiene awards after dozens of diners fell ill with food poisoning.
Friday 08 March 2013
'It's about the long route from A to B. The sense of the detour is important to me'
Monday 04 March 2013
The 25-year-old is currently on loan at Juventus from Arsenal
Wednesday 14 November 2012
Sven Hassel was a remarkable but controversial author who wrote successful novels set on the Eastern front in the Second World War. Starting in 1953 he published 14 novels, written in the first person, which were translated into 25 languages and published in 50 countries.
Thursday 19 July 2012
A two-and-a-half year investigation into the embarrassing leak of hundreds of emails apparently designed to cast doubt on the scientific case behind climate change has been shut down without the culprit being found, police said last night.
Monday 25 June 2012
Wordsworth found them "jocund company" and all he had to do was think of them when miserable and his heart would fill with pleasure.
Monday 04 June 2012
Four men were each jailed for 12 years yesterday for planning a shooting spree at the office of a Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed.
Friday 20 April 2012
The bridge that links Sweden and Denmark has its own TV series, says Gerard Gilbert
Monday 09 April 2012
Norway's cold climes are the hot new spot for Nordic noir, says Gerard Gilbert
Saturday 31 December 2011
World road-race champion Mark Cavendish hopes fellow Briton David Millar will be free to compete in next year's Olympics despite his compatriot's previous suspension for doping.
Monday 26 December 2011
One of the key people to bring archaeology into the post-war world and the 21st century (where coasts, sea and the vessels to navigate these are seen as central to human development) was Ole Crumlin Pedersen, Danish naval architect turned nautical archaeologist, museum creator, author, innovative designer and founder of integrated research centres.
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