Good week for

Titian

There will be a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see his six great mythological paintings—the ‘poesie’— together when, for the first time, the Wallace Collection will loan a work; its Perseus and Andromeda will join the other five in a spring exhibition at the National Gallery

Merits of fox control

A study by the GWCT shows the density of Vulpes vulpes populations is likely to increase during the breeding months for ground-nesting birds, such as curlew and lapwing, when the birds are most vulnerable Equine crime

A police initiative to seize horses, microchip them and force owners to pay costs to reclaim them is reducing incidences of fly-grazing, says a report to World Horse Welfare

Setting an example

The band Coldplay has revealed it won’t take its new album on tour due to concerns about flying and the use of plastic at concerts

Bad week for Bell tolling

The 450-year-old Whitechapel Bell Foundry in East London, which cast Big Ben, is to become a boutique hotel; one campaigner calls the move ‘historical vandalism’

The advance of aliens

The spread of Japanese knotweed and other waterway-choking invasive species is another unwelcome consequence of flooding, says the Wildlife Trusts. It was found on a deluged nature reserve in Rotherham

Tree spend

Tree-planting rates are a new electoral battleground; although it’s been accelerated in the past year, Defra figures show the amount spent has fallen by about £20 million a year over the past few years

Goats

Goat farmers in Northern Ireland are on alert after an animal imported from Britain was found to be suffering caprine arthritis encephalitis, which causes lameness and affects productivity, movement and condition