BBC Security Correspondent. Author of Invasion, Blood & Sand, Outbreak, Crisis, Ultimatum, Arabic grad. BTO Pres.

Joined November 2010
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A rare Silver-spotted Blue butterfly in Hampshire
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I’m excited to announce that my next novel in the Luke Carlton series - ‘Ballistic’ - will be out in July! Amazon link below: bit.ly/4dE99dR
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Buff-tailed bumblebee, Hertfordshire
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Nature pic for today: Greater Whitethroat, Essex
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Sir Alex Younger, former Chief of MI6 from 2014-2020, has died aged 62.
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Roe deer fawn in a Surrey wood at the weekend
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Old Winchester Hill
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Nature pic for today: Small tortoiseshell butterfly, Surrey
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May evening, Buckinghamshire
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The Director of the UK’s largest spy agency, GCHQ, Anne Keast-Butler has revealed in her inaugural annual speech that: ‘new intelligence shows almost half a million Russian soldiers have now been killed since the start of the fullscale invasion of Ukraine in 2022’.
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Sunset over West London
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Common blue butterfly, Croydon
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Azure damselfly beside a London stream
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Common Spotted Orchid, growing wild in London today
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Nature pic for today: Glanville fritillary butterfly, London
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Coming up on BBC1 TV News at 6 - what happened between Russian jets and an RAF plane over the Black Sea?
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Dappled road, Suffolk
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Nature pic for today: Dartford Warbler, Suffolk
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Nature pic for today: Brimstone butterfly on a lilac bush, Hertfordshire
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Is the #IranWar‌ nearly over? No, but there are some encouraging signs.
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