A Birmingham urban winery in Digbeth is turning grapes from a Herefordshire farm into wine this season. The warm, sunny year is expected to produce a strong vintage, and the Midlands is becoming more suited to winemaking.
Members of the local community will help the council with its autumn leaf clean-up in Ealing.
Conservation groups are close to their £30m target to buy the 9,500-acre Rothbury Estate in Northumberland after a £1.9m government pledge. The Wildlife Trusts plan to boost wildlife, restore bogs and promote nature-friendly farming on the land.
Lundy Island, off the north Devon coast, captured more than 100,000 litres of rain in 48 hours during Storm Austen. Its water tanks rose to about 53.5% full, a jump of 20 percentage points after reservoir levels had fallen to 13% earlier this year.
