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Rhyl Journal
12 minutes ago
- Rhyl Journal
Starmer to discuss ‘global problem' of illegal migration with German Chancellor
Writing in the Sunday Express newspaper, Sir Keir said Mr Merz's visit to the UK will include talks on 'what more we can do together to prosecute criminal networks and prevent people smuggling to the UK'. 'The networks of these criminal gangs stretch across countless countries and legal systems, showing no respect for our borders,' he added. 'We'll go further to tackle this shared issue together.' According to the Home Office, 353 people crossed the English Channel by small boat on Friday, just a day after the Prime Minister signed a deal with French President Emmanuel Macron aimed at deterring migrants from making the perilous journey. This was down from the 573 people who crossed on Thursday, the first time any such journeys were made in a week. More crossings were witnessed on Saturday, but the full figures are yet to be published. Border force vessels and the RNLI were called out on both Thursday and Friday to reports of multiple boats crossing the channel, the Coastguard said. A statement from the Coastguard said: 'HM Coastguard has been co-ordinating a response to multiple incidents involving small boats in the Channel on 10 and 11 July. 'UK Border Force and RNLI vessels have been sent as part of this response.' Under the terms of the deal agreed by the Prime Minister and Mr Macron, the UK will be able to send migrants back to France for the first time in exchange for asylum seekers with links to Britain. The so-called one in, one out deal is due to begin in weeks on a pilot basis, but needs final legal verification from the EU. Downing Street has indicated ministers expect the EU to support the arrangement, amid concerns among some European governments that migrants who have travelled to Britain could end up back on their territory. No details have been given about how many people will be covered by the pilot, but French officials had indicated it could initially be limited to about 50 a week, a small fraction of the weekly average this year of 782. Sir Keir wrote: 'This is what serious, practical solutions to global problems look like. 'We will do our duty as a compassionate country, accepting genuine asylum seekers who respect our rules and our way of life. That is fair. 'But people who try to make the crossing illegally will soon find themselves back where they started. That is a real deterrent.' At least 21,000 people have already made the journey since January, putting 2025 on course to be a record year for crossings.
The Advertiser
24 minutes ago
- The Advertiser
Desert haven teeming with life a snapshot of the past
Where sapphire sky meets ochre horizon, saltbush grows wild on the undulating dunes. Beneath the blue, yellow and green hues of the scrub and grasses in the South Australian desert, small and usually elusive native mammals dart across the sand at nightfall. The delicate tracks left by native rodents tell a story about their lives - where they've been, what they've been eating and whether they've been chasing each other or fighting. The Arid Recovery conservation zone is a window into the time before European colonisation, when introduced predators like foxes, rabbits, cats and domestic stock did not threaten native creatures. The 12,300 hectare reserve is surrounded by a high wire fence to keep feral animals out, with a curved and floppy top designed to fling pouncing cats to the ground. It is a sanctuary for both the threatened native animals and the people studying them. "It's a really enjoyable experience being surrounded by nature that's not under threat," Arid Recovery's chief scientist Katherine Moseby told AAP. "If I'm outside the reserve, I'm walking around seeing rabbits run past, seeing feral cat tracks on the dune, I'm seeing chewed branches from cattle and sheep. "So to have that snapshot of what things should look like is a real privilege." Inside the reserve, Professor Moseby and hundreds of volunteers have worked for 26 years to meticulously observe what happens to desert mammals when invasive predators are kept at bay. The results, recently published in an international biology journal, have astounded scientists. With thousands of traps set over that time to record data from about 10 species, researchers found population booms were up to 33 times higher after heavy rainfall years inside the reserve compared to outside. "Up until now, we've thought introduced predators have a bit of an impact on native small mammals, maybe two or three times the impact of native predators," said Prof Moseby, who is also a researcher at the University of NSW. "But having 10, 20, 30 times the impact on these small mammals is quite eye-opening." The first species to respond to protection from feral predators was the introduced house mouse, with capture rates increasing from the first year of the study. Hopping mice and plains mice, both native, were not captured until some years after the reserve was established but their numbers increased rapidly and remained high throughout the study. Those species were not previously known within 50km of the site, likely due to their susceptibility to the cat and fox population. A surprising and significant observation of the hopping and plains mice was their movement to new habitats. Usually found living on sand dunes, high numbers of hopping mice were captured in swales - the scrubby depressions between the dunes - years after their population established. Plains mice, known to live on cracking clay swales, were regularly trapped on dunes. "When we're conserving habitat for these threatened species, we tend to look at where they are now and we don't think about the potential they have to expand out if we could just address those threats," Prof Moseby said. "It's got implications for conservation planning and thinking more broadly about the habitats we can serve to to protect these threatened species." Prof Moseby hopes the findings highlight just how much of Australia's fauna has been lost since colonisation. "A lot of arid zone areas, people don't visit, or ... they just drive through and don't really understand or get to immerse themselves in that environment," she said. "If you don't understand something, you're not going to care about it or want to protect it. "Being able to expose so many different people to that environment and show people what it used to be like, it opens people's eyes and they realise just how much things have changed." Where sapphire sky meets ochre horizon, saltbush grows wild on the undulating dunes. Beneath the blue, yellow and green hues of the scrub and grasses in the South Australian desert, small and usually elusive native mammals dart across the sand at nightfall. The delicate tracks left by native rodents tell a story about their lives - where they've been, what they've been eating and whether they've been chasing each other or fighting. The Arid Recovery conservation zone is a window into the time before European colonisation, when introduced predators like foxes, rabbits, cats and domestic stock did not threaten native creatures. The 12,300 hectare reserve is surrounded by a high wire fence to keep feral animals out, with a curved and floppy top designed to fling pouncing cats to the ground. It is a sanctuary for both the threatened native animals and the people studying them. "It's a really enjoyable experience being surrounded by nature that's not under threat," Arid Recovery's chief scientist Katherine Moseby told AAP. "If I'm outside the reserve, I'm walking around seeing rabbits run past, seeing feral cat tracks on the dune, I'm seeing chewed branches from cattle and sheep. "So to have that snapshot of what things should look like is a real privilege." Inside the reserve, Professor Moseby and hundreds of volunteers have worked for 26 years to meticulously observe what happens to desert mammals when invasive predators are kept at bay. The results, recently published in an international biology journal, have astounded scientists. With thousands of traps set over that time to record data from about 10 species, researchers found population booms were up to 33 times higher after heavy rainfall years inside the reserve compared to outside. "Up until now, we've thought introduced predators have a bit of an impact on native small mammals, maybe two or three times the impact of native predators," said Prof Moseby, who is also a researcher at the University of NSW. "But having 10, 20, 30 times the impact on these small mammals is quite eye-opening." The first species to respond to protection from feral predators was the introduced house mouse, with capture rates increasing from the first year of the study. Hopping mice and plains mice, both native, were not captured until some years after the reserve was established but their numbers increased rapidly and remained high throughout the study. Those species were not previously known within 50km of the site, likely due to their susceptibility to the cat and fox population. A surprising and significant observation of the hopping and plains mice was their movement to new habitats. Usually found living on sand dunes, high numbers of hopping mice were captured in swales - the scrubby depressions between the dunes - years after their population established. Plains mice, known to live on cracking clay swales, were regularly trapped on dunes. "When we're conserving habitat for these threatened species, we tend to look at where they are now and we don't think about the potential they have to expand out if we could just address those threats," Prof Moseby said. "It's got implications for conservation planning and thinking more broadly about the habitats we can serve to to protect these threatened species." Prof Moseby hopes the findings highlight just how much of Australia's fauna has been lost since colonisation. "A lot of arid zone areas, people don't visit, or ... they just drive through and don't really understand or get to immerse themselves in that environment," she said. "If you don't understand something, you're not going to care about it or want to protect it. "Being able to expose so many different people to that environment and show people what it used to be like, it opens people's eyes and they realise just how much things have changed." Where sapphire sky meets ochre horizon, saltbush grows wild on the undulating dunes. Beneath the blue, yellow and green hues of the scrub and grasses in the South Australian desert, small and usually elusive native mammals dart across the sand at nightfall. The delicate tracks left by native rodents tell a story about their lives - where they've been, what they've been eating and whether they've been chasing each other or fighting. The Arid Recovery conservation zone is a window into the time before European colonisation, when introduced predators like foxes, rabbits, cats and domestic stock did not threaten native creatures. The 12,300 hectare reserve is surrounded by a high wire fence to keep feral animals out, with a curved and floppy top designed to fling pouncing cats to the ground. It is a sanctuary for both the threatened native animals and the people studying them. "It's a really enjoyable experience being surrounded by nature that's not under threat," Arid Recovery's chief scientist Katherine Moseby told AAP. "If I'm outside the reserve, I'm walking around seeing rabbits run past, seeing feral cat tracks on the dune, I'm seeing chewed branches from cattle and sheep. "So to have that snapshot of what things should look like is a real privilege." Inside the reserve, Professor Moseby and hundreds of volunteers have worked for 26 years to meticulously observe what happens to desert mammals when invasive predators are kept at bay. The results, recently published in an international biology journal, have astounded scientists. With thousands of traps set over that time to record data from about 10 species, researchers found population booms were up to 33 times higher after heavy rainfall years inside the reserve compared to outside. "Up until now, we've thought introduced predators have a bit of an impact on native small mammals, maybe two or three times the impact of native predators," said Prof Moseby, who is also a researcher at the University of NSW. "But having 10, 20, 30 times the impact on these small mammals is quite eye-opening." The first species to respond to protection from feral predators was the introduced house mouse, with capture rates increasing from the first year of the study. Hopping mice and plains mice, both native, were not captured until some years after the reserve was established but their numbers increased rapidly and remained high throughout the study. Those species were not previously known within 50km of the site, likely due to their susceptibility to the cat and fox population. A surprising and significant observation of the hopping and plains mice was their movement to new habitats. Usually found living on sand dunes, high numbers of hopping mice were captured in swales - the scrubby depressions between the dunes - years after their population established. Plains mice, known to live on cracking clay swales, were regularly trapped on dunes. "When we're conserving habitat for these threatened species, we tend to look at where they are now and we don't think about the potential they have to expand out if we could just address those threats," Prof Moseby said. "It's got implications for conservation planning and thinking more broadly about the habitats we can serve to to protect these threatened species." Prof Moseby hopes the findings highlight just how much of Australia's fauna has been lost since colonisation. "A lot of arid zone areas, people don't visit, or ... they just drive through and don't really understand or get to immerse themselves in that environment," she said. "If you don't understand something, you're not going to care about it or want to protect it. "Being able to expose so many different people to that environment and show people what it used to be like, it opens people's eyes and they realise just how much things have changed." Where sapphire sky meets ochre horizon, saltbush grows wild on the undulating dunes. Beneath the blue, yellow and green hues of the scrub and grasses in the South Australian desert, small and usually elusive native mammals dart across the sand at nightfall. The delicate tracks left by native rodents tell a story about their lives - where they've been, what they've been eating and whether they've been chasing each other or fighting. The Arid Recovery conservation zone is a window into the time before European colonisation, when introduced predators like foxes, rabbits, cats and domestic stock did not threaten native creatures. The 12,300 hectare reserve is surrounded by a high wire fence to keep feral animals out, with a curved and floppy top designed to fling pouncing cats to the ground. It is a sanctuary for both the threatened native animals and the people studying them. "It's a really enjoyable experience being surrounded by nature that's not under threat," Arid Recovery's chief scientist Katherine Moseby told AAP. "If I'm outside the reserve, I'm walking around seeing rabbits run past, seeing feral cat tracks on the dune, I'm seeing chewed branches from cattle and sheep. "So to have that snapshot of what things should look like is a real privilege." Inside the reserve, Professor Moseby and hundreds of volunteers have worked for 26 years to meticulously observe what happens to desert mammals when invasive predators are kept at bay. The results, recently published in an international biology journal, have astounded scientists. With thousands of traps set over that time to record data from about 10 species, researchers found population booms were up to 33 times higher after heavy rainfall years inside the reserve compared to outside. "Up until now, we've thought introduced predators have a bit of an impact on native small mammals, maybe two or three times the impact of native predators," said Prof Moseby, who is also a researcher at the University of NSW. "But having 10, 20, 30 times the impact on these small mammals is quite eye-opening." The first species to respond to protection from feral predators was the introduced house mouse, with capture rates increasing from the first year of the study. Hopping mice and plains mice, both native, were not captured until some years after the reserve was established but their numbers increased rapidly and remained high throughout the study. Those species were not previously known within 50km of the site, likely due to their susceptibility to the cat and fox population. A surprising and significant observation of the hopping and plains mice was their movement to new habitats. Usually found living on sand dunes, high numbers of hopping mice were captured in swales - the scrubby depressions between the dunes - years after their population established. Plains mice, known to live on cracking clay swales, were regularly trapped on dunes. "When we're conserving habitat for these threatened species, we tend to look at where they are now and we don't think about the potential they have to expand out if we could just address those threats," Prof Moseby said. "It's got implications for conservation planning and thinking more broadly about the habitats we can serve to to protect these threatened species." Prof Moseby hopes the findings highlight just how much of Australia's fauna has been lost since colonisation. "A lot of arid zone areas, people don't visit, or ... they just drive through and don't really understand or get to immerse themselves in that environment," she said. "If you don't understand something, you're not going to care about it or want to protect it. "Being able to expose so many different people to that environment and show people what it used to be like, it opens people's eyes and they realise just how much things have changed."
Powys County Times
25 minutes ago
- Powys County Times
‘Stop the excuses' and recognise state of Palestine, SNP tells UK government
The SNP has called on the UK Government to 'stop the excuses' and follow other European countries in recognising the state of Palestine. The party's comments follow a speech by French President Emmanuel Macron during his recent state visit to the UK, in which he said recognising the state of Palestine was 'the only path to peace'. The SNP also called on the UK Government to stop the sale of arms to Israel, saying that failure by the Government to 'use the power it has' to end the conflict in Gaza would make it 'totally complicit' in what it called a 'slaughter'. SNP Middle East spokesman Brendan O'Hara MP said that if the UK Government 'could muster just a shred of conviction and courage they would have the power to act'. He went on: 'After witnessing another week of slaughter, the Labour Party could, and should, begin this new week by taking two concrete steps,' he said. 'They should start this new week by finally stopping all arms sales to Israel and finally recognising the state of Palestine. 'President Macron was crystal clear that he is preparing to join other European nations in recognising the state of Palestine and that he is pressing the UK to join this 'political momentum' towards a ceasefire and a permanent peace. 'Keir Starmer should stop the excuses and join him in recognising the state of Palestine without any more damaging delays. 'That would send the clearest of signals that we are prepared to protect and guarantee the right of the Palestinian people to their own homeland – and that all diplomatic levers will be used to prevent any plan that effectively proposes ethnic cleansing in Gaza. 'It is also blindingly obvious that anyone claiming to support a two-state solution must back immediate recognition of Palestine, otherwise their words ring hollow. 'If after this week Westminster stays sitting on its hands and fails to use the power it has to act, then they will be totally complicit in giving the (Benjamin) Netanyahu government impunity to commit week upon week of slaughter, even deadlier than the one Palestinians have just suffered.' The party pointed out that 144 members of the UN, including Ireland, Spain and Norway, have already moved to recognise Palestine. Foreign Secretary David Lammy said earlier this week that the UK Government remained 'completely committed' to recognition, but refused to set a time frame for it, saying it was a 'moving, live situation'. A FCDO spokesperson said: 'From day one we have taken decisive action – suspending relevant export licences, suspending trade negotiations, restarting UNRWA funding, sanctioning Israeli Ministers, providing aid to hundreds of thousands of civilians, and using our position on the UN Security Council to demand the end of this war and the full resumption of aid into Gaza. 'We continue working with international partners to end Palestinian suffering, free the hostages and secure lasting Middle East peace.'
