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By Steffan MessengerBBC Wales Environment Correspondent Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, The area around Blaenau Ffestiniog is alongside Egypt’s Pyramids, India’s Taj Mahal and the Grand Canyon as a Unesco World Heritage site Appropriately enough, it’s drizzling on the day we visit the town billed as Wales’ wettest. A grey sky blends in with the …

Russia’s UN Ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, has said Russia will carry out a ceasefire on Tuesday at 6pm (AEDT — 10am Moscow time) and open humanitarian corridors to evacuate citizens from Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy and Mariupol. He took the floor at the end of a UN Security Council meeting on the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine to …

Image copyright AFP Image caption Rainfall from Storm Ciara left the village of Mytholmroyd in Yorkshire’s Calder Valley devastated for the second time in five years Last month was the wettest February in the UK since records began in 1862, according to the Met Office. The UK received an average of 209.1mm of rainfall, 237% …