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RAINBOW STREETS Gloucester neighbourhood is first of many to get a glow up When Tash Frootko started painting houses in Gloucester five years ago, she wanted to bring joy and colour to neighbourhoods that felt unloved. Her work was entirely self-funded but thanks to the positive impact that bringing colour to the streets has had on its neighbourhoods – and 134 spruced up terraces and 1,300 litres of paint later – she's now been awarded funding to continue her quest to create a Rainbow City.@tashfrootko BLOOMING GREAT A wildflower found only in York – thought to have become extinct in 1991 – is blooming again. Thanks to seeds saved at Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank, the reemergence of York groundsel is the first de-extinction event in the UK. 13 gigatons of carbon are held in the…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2023

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