A North Carolina judge has blocked a farm owner’s plan to build a 2,500-seat amphitheater on Orange County farmland covered by a 187-acre conservation easement that a dairy family signed nearly 30 years ago

A long-running dispute over development on protected farmland in North Carolina has taken a significant turn after a Superior Court judge ruled in favour of a conservation group seeking to stop a proposed outdoor amphitheater. The October 15 decision effectively ends the prospect of a jury trial in the case, although the farm owner still…

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Glasgow’s historic Rogano restaurant failed to reopen after flooding and a fire as the UK Supreme Court rejected a claim for lost profits | World News

Glasgow’s Rogano restaurant was unable to reopen after flooding and an electrical fire damaged its premises, prompting a legal dispute between its tenant and landlord. The case reached the UK Supreme Court after Forthwell Limited sought to recover profits lost by Lynnet Leisure (Rogano) Limited, the company that operated the restaurant.According to the UK Supreme…

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King Charles’s Sandringham estate helped release captive-bred turtle doves as conservationists work to restore a bird with fewer than 1,000 wild breeding pairs in the UK | World News

Turtle Doves. Image Credit: Turtle Dove trust King Charles’s Sandringham estate has become part of an effort to bring turtle doves back to the British countryside, with conservationists releasing captive-bred birds into suitable habitats. The initiative comes as the species faces a severe population decline, with official monitoring showing that its UK numbers have fallen…

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‘He was crying and grabbing the doctor’s hands to stop him’: US organ donation group faces decertification after Kentucky man’s near-fatal ordeal

“My brother grabbed the doctor’s hand as he tried to harvest his organs…” Donna Rhorer’s account of what happened to her brother, Anthony Thomas “TJ” Hoover II, has become central to a case raising serious questions about patient safety and oversight in the US organ donation system. Hoover, who was taken for organ donation after…

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‘If you want to fit Vaibhav’: Ex-India cricketer’s message to Gautam Gambhir-led management on accommodating Sooryavanshi | Cricket News

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Sanju Samson and Gautam Gambhir (BCCI Photo) Former India wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik believes Abhishek Sharma should be rested rather than Sanju Samson being dropped again if India want to bring teenage batter Vaibhav Sooryavanshi back into the playing XI for the fifth and final T20I against New Zealand.Sooryavanshi missed the fourth T20I in…

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Tiny Dinosaurs: Dinosaurs as small as cats: Meet the tiny dinosaurs that lived in the shadow of giants

Say “dinosaur” and most people picture a towering Tyrannosaurus or a long-necked giant stretching over the treetops. But the dinosaur family also had members the size of a cat or even smaller, creatures that would have darted through the undergrowth. Some were feathered, some had wings, and some were fast little runners no longer than…

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Meet Locklyn Raye Ward, the Oklahoma eighth-grader who tested 24 wild plants from her family’s farm and found 56% showed antibacterial activity, though none beat antibiotics

Image credits: Society for science Locklyn Raye Ward, an Oklahoma eighth-grader, worked on a study titled, “A Study of Open Field Plants, Native and Non-Native, and Their Antimicrobial Properties Against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus epidermidis.” Details about Locklyn’s project and background come from the Society for Science, the nonprofit behind Science News and several student…

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