Good week for
Scottish fish
The Wild Salmonid Support Fund is now open for applications, with an additional £120,000 funding available to help support a sustainable future for wild salmon and sea trout in Scottish rivers
Victorian theatres
Grants of up to £15,000 will be awarded, part of the new Victorian Theatres Small Repairs Fund, announced by the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation
Stone circle competition
The top spot for furthest distance travelled by stones is under review; researchers at
Avebury say the
Neolithic boulders travelled 280 miles from the Cheviot Hills, almost double the distance from the Preseli mountains to Stonehenge
Welsh rainforests
A £7m project in Snowdonia National Park will restore and expand the rainforest there by removing alien rhododendrons and bringing in Highland cattle—their grazing should keep the ground open for native trees and plants Nyetimber
England’s leading sparkling-wine producer not only had its largest ever harvest last year, but sales were up 55% within the UK and 89% in Europe Chocolate rabbits
Invented by a Lindt master chocolatier for his rabbitloving daughter, the Lindt gold bunny celebrates its 70th anniversary this year; 150m are produced every year