Mystery of the Beast of Bowness: Motorist captures images of ‘muscular big cat’ thought to be a puma roaming the British countryside before leaving it a chicken sandwich and driving off The predator was eating a pigeon in Cumbria near Bowness-on-Windermere There have been more than 40 reports of black panthers in the area say police … Read more
Protesters are locked in a furious row with the National Trust over plans to turn acres of idyllic Green Belt countryside into a sprawling car park for a moated manor house. Ightham Mote, near Sevenoaks, already has 232 parking spaces but the conservation charity wants to double capacity by moving the car park to a nearby area … Read more
The rare white stork that vanished from the British countryside over 400 years ago has been successfully reintroduced in West Sussex. The rare birds — once a common sight in Britain until around the end of the Civil War in the 1600s — have now returned to the Knepp Estate of Horsham, West Sussex. This … Read more