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Disease causing mass deaths of frogs reaches BritainScientists concerned as severe perkinsea infection found in European tree frog tadpoles kept in an aquarium in Surrey
Ministers announce mammoth fire prevention plan, aircraft upgradeA fire protection program budgeted at 1.76 billion euros will replace old water-dropping airplanes and allow the hire of of 3,000 permanent firefighters, Citizen Protection Minister Michalis Chrisochoidis and Deputy Civil Protection Minister Nikos Hardalias announced on Tuesday.“The core of the plan revolves around locating a fire fast and responding quickly,” Hardalias said.According to details presented at the press conference and following a meeting between the two ministers later, the government will procure 8 new Canadair CL-515 aircraft (replacing CL-215s), and upgrade CL-415s to CL-515s.This year, 69 helicopters and airplanes operated out of 25 bases throughout Greece, while 36 new amphibious Air-Tractor firefighting aircraft will be leased. Greece has already leased six this year, which will be purchased by 2030 if the program’s budget is approved.
Cat returns home after family believe they cremated him‘We cremated someone else’s cat,’ says owner Rachel FitzsimonsA family were shocked when the cat they believed they had cremated returned home as if nothing had happened.Frankie, a 16-year-old tabby, failed to return home in Warrington, Cheshire, on 19 May.His owners launched a search and spotted a dead cat on the M6 motorway that looked similar a few days later.Highways England was able to retrieve the animal and gave it to the family to be cremated.But Frankie returned home a few days later.
