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After five days at sea, a team of inner-city teenagers from Greig City Academy have made history as the only crew from a comprehensive school known to have finished the world's largest offshore sailing race.

Children are being denied the chance to develop “resilience and grit” because of schools’ over-zealous health and safety policies, the chief inspector of schools says.

Amanda Spielman said schools must stop trying “to wrap them in cotton wool” because it leaves them ill-prepared for the challenges of later life. (reported in the Telegraph)

Grandparents were much more adventurous during their youth in the great outdoors than today’s youngsters – half of whom have never even climbed a tree, a survey shows.

People are so out of touch with nature and cut off from the countryside that more than a third of parents admit they could not teach their own children about British wildlife, a new survey claims.

Ordnance Survey has released a comprehensive map of greenspaces throughout Great Britain. The culmination of a project to comprehensively map greenspaces throughout Great Britain was published on Monday 10 July 2017.