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Adam Vaughan meets Prof Keith Barnham to discuss his new book The Burning Answer: A User's Guide to the Solar Revolution and the team discuss the release of bison into the wilds of Romania Continue reading... ...

Bison are being released in Romanian forests , and First Dog on the Moon is celebrating the news Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading... ...

When Tommy Tomescu heard Nigel Farage say that British people would be concerned if his countrymen moved in next door he decided to travel to Westerham, the Ukip leader's home town in Kent, to see how Farage's neighbours reacted. Tomescu is running for the EU parliament himself on Thursday for the Europeans party Continue reading... ...

Nigel Farage continues to insist that we should be worried if Romanians move in next door ( Farage remarks branded racist by three senior Labour figures , 20 May), while YouGov finds that 51% of Ukip voters think immigrants and their families (including those born here) should be encouraged to leave Britain. This merely confirms what was already obvious, yet apparently needs to be spelled out: Ukip...

Europe's largest beast is to roam the forests of Romania after 200 years. Adam Vaughan witnesses the buzz as a herd of 17 is released in the Carpathian mountains The crowd surges forward against the barrier, cameraphones are held aloft, children are hoisted on to shoulders. The celebrities, the first European bison about to set their hooves in this remote Romanian valley in the southern Carpathian...

A herd of bison are gathered from across Europe for release into the wild in Romania. The animals were shot with a tranquiliser gun to immobilise them, then loaded onto a truck to drive to Romania. In all 17 bison were collected from wildlife parks and breeding centres across Europe Continue reading... ...

Europe's largest land animal, the bison, is released back into the wild in Romania for the first time in more than 200 years. Watched by a crowd of supporters a herd of 17 bison from five different countries took their first tentative steps into the forests of the southern Carpathian mountains in Romania where they will have eventually have 160 hectares to roam Continue reading... ...

Steve Bell's If ... on Nigel Farage's Romanian clarification Comment is free The Guardian Turn autoplay off Turn autoplay on Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off Jump to content [s] Jump to comments [c] Jump to site navigation [0] Jump to search [4] Terms and conditions [8] Edition: UK US AU Your activity Email subscriptions Account details Linked services Sign out Profile Beta About...

Foreign students contribute up to £14bn a year to the British economy. That some are now opting not to come here because they do not feel welcome is cause for grave concern Don't expect much soul searching this side of the election. Which is a shame because there is a good deal to be done. A great many activists and newspapers and politicians will want to reflect on the hysteria they caused late last...

Ukip leader says most Romanians would make good neighbours as party takes out newspaper ad insisting it is not racist The UK Independence party leader, Nigel Farage, has said the vast majority of Romanians in the UK would make good neighbours as he sought to limit the damage caused by his controversial suggestion that he would be concerned if a group of people from the eastern European country moved...

Ukip leader Nigel Farage says he regrets disparaging remarks he made about Romanians. During an interview on LBC on Friday , Farage said he'd be concerned if a group of Romanians moved in next door. Farage says he was 'tired out' when he made the remarks to interviewer James O'Brien Continue reading... ...

Given the choice between Romanian neighbours or a one-trick Ukip leader who will jeopardise our economy, I know who I'd pick I got some new neighbours recently. As they moved in I watched with growing despair while they arrived with threadbare backpacks and boxes of mismatched crockery. Turning to my housemate, who was crouching behind the net curtain next to me, I gulped: "Don't they looked like...

Shadow home secretary and Labour MP criticise Ukip leader after he said he would not want Romanians living next door Nigel Farage's comments about Romanians have been branded racist by three prominent Labour figures Yvette Cooper, Diane Abbott and David Lammy after the Ukip leader said people might not want to live next door to immigrants from the eastern European country. Continue reading... ...

Negative UK publicity must have deterred some migrants, but British society has welcomed many of us, Romanians say As the official figures flashed up on a giant television screen, Tommy Tomescu allowed himself a brief smile of vindication before the recriminations flowed. Continue reading... ...

An apparent surge in the number of Romanians and Bulgarians coming to Britain is likely to prove incendiary as the European elections approach More than 30,000 extra Romanians and Bulgarians are working in Britain compared with a year ago, official Labour Force Survey figures to be published on Wednesday are expected to show. But this 25%-plus rise in their presence of the British workforce does not...

122,000 Bulgarians and Romanians are now working in the UK, 3,000 fewer than when visa restrictions were in force At the end of last year the Daily Mail splashed on a story claiming that all flights from Romania and Bulgaria were booked up , with jobseekers from those countries piling into the UK to take advantage of their newly achieved free movement through the EU. Those claims were later more or...

Treasury chief secretary Danny Alexander says figures 'give the lie to Ukip's scaremongering on immigration' The number of Romanians and Bulgarians working in Britain has gone down since border controls on them were fully lifted in January, according to the Office for National Statistics. The first official numbers of Romanians and Bulgarians in the UK workforce undermine predictions that hundreds...

Romanians were put off by hysteria in the press, says Dr Tommy Tomescu, dentist and London MEP candidate Many Romanians have been put off coming to the UK because of hysteria in sections of the media, Dr Tommy Tomescu, a Romanian dentist and London MEP candidate for the Europeans party, which campaigns against the discrimination of migrants, has claimed.. Continue reading... ...

World champion cardstacker Bryan Berg was invited to mark the completion of renovation work on a shopping mall in Bucharest, Romania, by constructing a model of the centre and two other buildings entirely out of playing cards. Continue reading... ...

Dmitry Rogozin reacts to being barred by saying that he will return in a military aircraft next time Romania has asked Moscow for an explanation after Russia's deputy prime minister, Dmitry Rogozin, reacting to being barred from its airspace, tweeted he would return in a TU-160 strategic bomber. Rogozin, one of the senior Russian officials sanctioned by the European Union and United States after Moscow...