Zookeepers across the country are starting to log all of the animals in their care in a huge New Year stock take. Zoos are required by law to keep precise records of every animal birth, death, arrival and departure. Bristol zoo alone has over 450
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Health fears over pool chemical - ONE News
Pool cleaners containing a chemical banned internationally due to fears it can cause cancer and serious health problems in children are being used throughout Australia. Fairfax newspapers say the herbicide simazine is used in Australian pool cleaners
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‘Stock-take’ is labour of life - Manchester Evening News
The ’stock-take’ of creatures means staff at Chester Zoo are taking painstaking notes of every one of 4,732 birds, mammals and reptiles who’ve travelled from every corner of the world to call Cheshire their home. Head of zoo programmes Kevin Buley
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Letter written by Canadian aboard Titanic expected to fetch $10,000 - Globe and Mail
NEW YORK — For those who follow the lore of Eaton’s department store, one tragedy stands out among others: the loss, in 1915, of the founder’s granddaughter Iris Burnside in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. But three years before that, another

FOSTER A 22-year-old Providence man was arrested yesterday afternoon and charged with abandoning 208 rats crammed into eight containers on the side of Hemlock Road, the police said. Toby Duffany, of 5 Woodfall St., was charged with one count of

Big-bellied seahorses fly in for breeding bonanza - Times Online
Six rare big-bellied seahorses have been flown to Scotland to start a new breeding programme. The endangered fish, sent from Portsmouth, will join four others at Deep Sea World in Fife. The big-bellied species is particularly valuable for breeding as