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Fraport Greece at the forefront of the fight against wildlife traffickingFraport Greece has signed the United for Wildlife Taskforce Buckingham Palace Declaration against wildlife trafficking, extending its biodiversity protection policy to the 14 regional airports and in close collaboration with ACI World. Recognizing the devastating impact of the illegal wildlife trade on the environment and the ecosystems, the company has pledged to actively participate in tackling the issue.
MPs question standards chief over claims PM misled him on flat redecorationLord Geidt asked what steps he will take after WhatsApp messages show Boris Johnson was in contact with a Tory donorBoris Johnsons’s adviser on ministerial interests has been contacted by a parliamentary committee over allegations that he was misled by the prime minister over the funding of the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat.In a letter to Lord Geidt, the crossbench peer who took up the adviser role in April after his predecessor resigned, MPs ask what steps are open to him if he believes he was misled during his inquiry into the handling of the work at the flat.Geidt’s investigation, which he undertook in May, cleared Johnson of wrongdoing over an apparent £52,000 donation to the Conservatives from a long-standing party donor to cover the costs of redecorating the No 11 residence he shares with his wife Carrie and their two children.Geidt reported that Johnson told him “he knew nothing about such payments” until February 2021. However, WhatsApp messages that emerged during an Electoral Commission inquiry into the funding showed that Johnson had been in direct contact with the donor, Lord Brownlow, in November 2020.
Boris Johnson’s zeal to return Parthenon marbles revealed in 1986 articleUnearthed Oxford Union article by prime minister made passionate case for sculptures’ repatriation to AthensThe extent of Boris Johnson’s U-turn on the Parthenon marbles has been laid bare in a 1986 article unearthed in an Oxford library in which the then classics student argued passionately for their return to Athens.Deploying language that would make campaigners proud, Johnson not only believed the fifth century BC antiquities should be displayed “where they belong”, but deplored how they had been “sawed and hacked” from the magisterial edifice they once adorned.“The Elgin marbles should leave this northern whisky-drinking guilt-culture, and be displayed where they belong: in a country of bright sunshine and the landscape of Achilles, ‘the shadowy mountains and the echoing sea,’” he wrote in the article, republished by the Greek daily, Ta Nea, on Saturday.“They will be housed in a new museum a few hundred yards from the Acropolis. They will be meticulously cared for. They will not, as they were in the British Museum in 1938, be severely damaged by manic washerwomen scrubbing them with copper brushes.”Last month the British prime minister told his Greek counterpart that the carvings – part of a monumental frieze regarded as the high point of classical art – were legally acquired and must remain in London.
Lord Frost quits the Cabinet as Boris Johnson considers Christmas Covid lockdownChaos at No 10 as Brexit negotiator leaves post over coronavirus restrictions, while Sajid Javid warns data may force new curbs
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