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Despite high inflation, rising interest rates, and consistent recession predictions from Wall Street, Americans have continued spending at near a record pace over the past year, opting to splurge on Disney vacations and DoorDash deliveries. Rising wages and a “cash buffer” of savings that was built up during the pandemic—when …

More than 250 people gathered at the public meeting A call has been made to save one of Wales’ “great treasures” from 60 miles (96km) of pylons over the countryside. Bute Energy wants to connect a proposed windfarm at Nant Mithil, Powys, across the Towy Valley to the energy network …

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More Highland cattle are to be released into a city’s parkland and fitted with sound-emitting collars to restrict their roaming. Derby City Council wants to put more cows into Allestree Park as part of what it says will be the UK’s largest rewilding scheme. It aims to used new technology …

BRADFORD, England — The brooding landscape of the English county of Yorkshire has perhaps been best known as the home of the gothic novels “Wuthering Heights” and “Jane Eyre” by the Brontë sisters. But long before they put pen to paper, giant carnivorous dinosaurs roamed the area that locals refer …