fragilities


A trust wins funding to help in its fight to save fragile woodlands in the far north of Scotland.

Israeli troops kill four Palestinian militants in a gunbattle on the border with Gaza putting a fragile ceasefire under more strain.

Further state support may be needed to help bolster the UK's fragile banking system, David Cameron says.

Preventing and resolving conflict must be addressed if fragile states are to meet their development goals, explains Michael Jay, of the UK-based medical charity, Merlin.

The new US military commander in Iraq, Lt Gen Ray Odierno, says recent security gains there are "fragile and reversible".

Public confidence in the police is "fragile" and even "declining", the head of the Police Superintendents' Association tells the BBC.

A four-year restoration project is announced to benefit wetland wildlife in the Norfolk Broads.

A charity is calling for more to be done to protect the future of British seahorses.

Sally Clarke, from the charity Merlin, says the health system in the Central African Republic is starting to improve - but there is much work still to be done.

More than 270 jobs are to be created in Argyll and Bute after permission was granted for a £10m science park.

A thousands evacuate, New Orleans is drained of life and colour ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Gustav, reports the BBC's Kevin Connolly.

The chief executive of the medical aid agency Merlin says G8 leaders should take action to reduce maternal mortality in developing countries.

A rocket from the Gaza Strip lands in southern Israel, the Israeli army says, putting more strain on a fragile truce.

A fragile truce in the Gaza Strip appears to have been violated by both Israeli forces and Palestinian militant groups.

A truce between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza is holding, despite widespread scepticism.

A UN official says there are fragile signs that Burma's co-operation with international relief agencies is improving.

Two bloody attacks in north-west Pakistan test fragile peace moves by the new government.

The British foreign secretary praises Pakistan's new coalition government for re-establishing democracy.

Historic maps of Cornwall are to be reproduced on CD by the county council to preserve them.

The violence in Basra and Baghdad risks overturning progress made in Iraq, say the BBC's Baghdad correspondents, Adam Brookes and Crispin Thorold.

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