Five green things we learnt this week

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From green Lib Dem’s to climate change tackling Otters, we run down the best stories from the last seven days

The Lib Dems will fight to protect the green agenda It is always important at Party conferences to play to the gallery, but the Lib Dem leadership went far further than many commentators were anticipating...

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