30th October - Today's News: No Piers, You Did Not Forecast The Storm!
St Jude storm hits Russia after devasting parts of Europe Surfers in Portugal ride towering waves whipped up by storm And how powerful was Monday's storm? Pleased to see the MetO reference the 3rd Jan 2012 storm as I've been doing the past few days. Could smog be vacuumed away? Thawing permafrost: the speed of coastal erosion in eastern Siberia has nearly doubled Paul Lister plans to push ahead with Alladale wolves plan - some years after he closed Alladale bothy (at short notice) to turn it into a luxury holiday cottage in the midst of what he planned to become a private wildlife park for the rich. Personally, I'd love to see wolves reintroduced to the wild in Scotland and would certainly have no fears camping alone in the hills knowing they were about. But I don't want Alladale fenced off. And finally, our old friend Piers Corbyn decided to name Monday's storm after himself because, he claims, he predicted it 6 wee...