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Most of us enjoyed a good night's sleep last night. A warm bed, soft pillow, that sort of thing. But for the past six months, during the harshest winter in decades, protesters against the proposed Mainshill opencast mine in South Lanarkshire have been sleeping in treehouses and tunnels on the site, risking their wellbeing, or at least frostbitten fingers. Last week the eviction process began. Somewhat reassuringly, after the recent cold spell, the activists were given a medical once-over to check they were well enough to be arrested.

Leo Hickman: Deniers queue up to lambast Skeptical Science application developed by solar physicist John Cook. Now there's a surprise

A good example of the need to have your critical faculties about you when using Wikipedia. I'm sure everything in this article is true, but it's been written by somebody very friendly to the bank.